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The Future Is Now: Precision Medicine, Stem Cells & More
‘This is the future for medicine in the world and Hadassah is at the forefront’ – Yoram Weiss, MD, acting director general of Hadassah Medical Organization.
In this episode, Prof. Yoram Weiss, acting director general of Hadassah Medical Organization, talks about personalized medicine and his goals for revolutionizing cancer treatment — including the use of stem cells to create transplantable organs, utilizing nanotechnology in attacking cancer cells, and CRISPR technology in “rewriting” the human genome. Named one of the best smart hospitals in the world by Newsweek magazine, Hadassah has more new technologies on the horizon, including telepathology, the ability for a doctor in one country to perform a surgery in another country through the use of robots.
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Hadassah On Call: New Frontiers in Medicine takes you behind the headlines with Hadassah Medical Organization doctors and specialists, patients and nurses. Listen and be amazed. Brought to you by Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America.
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