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The Promised Land of Medical Marijuana
With eight farms authorized to cultivate marijuana and pending legislation to ease access to the drug, Israel’s cannabis industry is one of the most advanced in the world.

With eight farms authorized to cultivate marijuana and pending legislation to ease access to the drug, Israel’s cannabis industry is one of the most advanced in
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A ‘Champion of Change’ for Cystic Fibrosis
Through her precision medicine advocacy, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is working to defeat cystic fibrosis—and racing to save her life.

Through her precision medicine advocacy, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is working to defeat cystic fibrosis—and racing to save her life.
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Center of Operations
Hadassah’s new surgical complex not only boasts the latest in surgical technologies, it is also designed to accommodate new tools as they are developed.

Hadassah’s new surgical complex boasts the latest in surgical technologies and is designed to accommodate new tools as they are developed.

Over the past 10 years, the number of patients assigned to the ICU has increased, and Hadassah is actively developing the technology and the space

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Medicine: The Age of e-Patients

by Wendy Elliman

More and more Israeli adolescents, both Jewish and Arab, are becoming e-patients—health consumers who use the Internet to learn about their health issues and, often,

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Medicine: Changing a Nation’s Diet

by Wendy Elliman

You are a week into your latest diet, which is based on sound nutritional principles. Or maybe you are following a fad diet that worked

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Medicine: Israel’s Aids Model

by Wendy Elliman

In Israel, it has never reached epidemic proportions, but an Israeli hospital has developed a care model for HIV/AIDS that is effectively used not only

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Medicine: Drumming, Jumping and Cystic Fibrosis

by Wendy Elliman

It is a story with more than one starting point. One possibility is in 1998, when Shuki Shukrun’s sister met Tali and told her brother

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Medicine: Mind Over Skin

by Wendy Elliman

A young man is injured during his Israel Defense Forces service. Two weeks later, his wound is healing, but patches of skin all over his

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Profile: Ruth Faden

by Barbara Pash

When Ruth Faden looks back on her long career, she can pinpoint the moment she decided to go into public health. She was doing her