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	<title>ISRAELITY &#187; Medical Breakthroughs</title>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Shaare Zedek Hospital&#8217;s Schwester Selma</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/01/nostalgia-sunday-shaare-zedek-hospitals-schwester-selma/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/01/nostalgia-sunday-shaare-zedek-hospitals-schwester-selma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know Schwester Selma but there is one time when perhaps our paths might have crossed. That would be in 1973, when my sisters and I were rushed to Jerusalem&#8217;s old Shaare Zedek hospital after a car accident (we came out with minor cuts, bruises, a few stitches in my sister&#8217;s forehead and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli vaccine may work against swine flu too</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/08/31/israeli-vaccine-may-work-against-swine-flu-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With doctors and nurses around the world now declaring that there&#8217;s no way many of them will take the new swine flu vaccine being rushed out this fall because of safety fears, it&#8217;s not surprising that interest in Israeli company BiondVax Phamaceuticals is growing fast.
The company is developing a universal flu vaccine that is designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s flu, but not as we know it</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/04/26/its-flu-but-not-as-we-know-it/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/04/26/its-flu-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, a few years ago, it looked like avian flu was going to be the great pandemic that would lay waste to the world&#8217;s population. Experts debated it, newspapers wrote billions of words on it, and a whole generation of children stopped picking up feathers. As the pandemic failed to materialize, however, gradually the fear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel going to pot</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/03/22/israel-going-to-pot/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/03/22/israel-going-to-pot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Breakthroughs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat yam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadassah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raphael Mechoulam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yehuda Baruch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forget California &#8211; did you know that Israel has one of the most progressive medical marijuana programs around?
Run out of an office in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, the Health Ministry&#8217;s program provides legally grown pot to hundreds of Israelis with medical conditions that have been proven to be helped by the active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human body parts invade Haifa</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/03/19/human-body-parts-invade-haifa/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/03/19/human-body-parts-invade-haifa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madatek Science Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shear Yeshuv Cohen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=9246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Wherever it&#8217;s been exhibited since it debuted in 1995, Body Worlds by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens has generated loads of controversy. So why should Israel be any different?
For the uninitiated, Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of plastinated human specimens created by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. Plastination, a technique patented by von [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Till it Hurts</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/01/21/giving-till-it-hurts/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/01/21/giving-till-it-hurts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow donor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow registry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donor recruitment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leukemia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=7745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They expected a large number of people – maybe 20,000 potential donors. But Ezer Mizion got far more than it bargained for on Wednesday, when it held a mass national campaign to add Israelis to its bone marrow registry; over 60,000 people crowded the 80 testing stations the organization had set up around the country, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel picks up the bill</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/01/05/israel-has-been-paying-palestinians-hospital-bills-for-years/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/01/05/israel-has-been-paying-palestinians-hospital-bills-for-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=7156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the news is full of Israel&#8217;s “crimes” against the civilian population in Gaza, here&#8217;s one “crime” you probably haven&#8217;t heard about. Israel routinely admits residents of Palestinian Authority controlled territory into its hospitals – and the Israeli taxpayer foots the bill. Not only that; Israel even helps pay for treatment of patients in PA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for Israeli Startups</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2008/12/25/hope-for-israeli-startups/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2008/12/25/hope-for-israeli-startups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tivo, Skype, Java, and other technologies that we now wonder how we did without – all of them were first displayed and demonstrated at the world&#8217;s premier hi-tech show, DEMO. Being able to present at DEMO is a prestigious accomplishment, and in order to get in, you&#8217;ve got to have something special.

This year, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Hour</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2008/12/16/%e2%80%9cthe-golden-hour%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2008/12/16/%e2%80%9cthe-golden-hour%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidS</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=6442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing Israeli medics are good at, it&#8217;s first aid. As a result of battlefield experience over 60 years of war, chovshim, as they are called in the IDF, have learned how to treat serious injuries with few supplies under heavily pressure.
The lessons learned on the battlefield prove invaluable for major civilian emergencies [...]]]></description>
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