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Three Technion – Israel Institute of Technology faculty members have been awarded research grants from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), a fund dedicated to turning cancer into a manageable chronic disease by supporting Israeli cancer researchers until it can be eradicated.
Professor Irit Ben Aharon received a Research Professorship grant to support her research into the effects of chemotherapy administered to pregnant women on their children.
Ben Aharon is a faculty member at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, director of the Fishman Oncology Center at Rambam Health Care Campus, and head of the gastrointestinal malignancies field at Rambam.
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An Israeli medical researcher has helped shed new light on a mystery that has endured for nearly 340 years: what killed Queen Christina of Sweden, one of 17th-century Europe’s most unusual monarchs. Prof. Zaid Abassi of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology’s, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Rambam Health Care Campus, […]
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives, and a working tool for professionals in a variety of fields, including medicine, which integrates AI in order to reach faster, more accurate, and more efficient diagnoses. But to what extent can AI truly be relied upon when it comes to complex medical decisions? […]
Few medical decisions seem so simple, yet create so much uncertainty: Is the infection bacterial, and therefore potentially in need of antibiotics, or viral, meaning antibiotics will not help? For years, physicians have tried to answer that question using symptoms, blood tests and tests that directly search for the virus or bacteria. Israeli company MeMed […]
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