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A Brainsway device in action. (photo credit: courtesy)

Israeli OCD treatment gets FDA green light for US marketing

By Shoshanna Solomon

Brainsway’s device, which magnetically stimulates nerve cells in the brain, said to provide patients with ‘another option’ when traditional treatment fails

An illustrative image of an anaphylaxis auto injector for allergy reactions (CarrieCaptured; iStock by Getty Images)

Teva shares jump as drugmaker gets nod for generic version of allergy EpiPen

By Shoshanna Solomon

Approval of emergency auto-injector comes after the Jerusalem-based drugmaker failed to get regulatory nod in 2016

Dr Dvory Namdar, the chief chemist and research associate at the government's marijuana greenhouses at the Volcani Center in Rishon Lezion, holds a flowering cannabis plant on June 27, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Weed firms fume as government rolls with cannabis research but stubs out exports

By Melanie Lidman

The Volcani Center’s medical marijuana research is part of Israel’s bid to be a world leader in medical cannabis, though businesses are angry over Netanyahu’s exports freeze

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, from left, wait for the start of prior to a bilateral meeting as part of the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, on July 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran seeking to bypass US sanctions even if Europe doesn’t maintain oil ties

By ToI Staff and AFP

A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests

By JTA

Israel-born genetics scholar asserts trauma of procedure tied to prevalence of SIDS, though his claims are rejected as ‘nonsense’ by one pediatrician

To lead is to serve

The Torah is a sustained exploration of the extent to which a society can be organised not on the basis of power (Shoftim)

Physician Chaim Arias arrives in Israel on an aliyah flight, August 15, 2018. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Israel’s newest doctors hope to make an impact on overburdened medical system

Amid a shortage of medical professionals and resources, latest immigrants from North America are eager to help fill the gap

Illustration of how IceCure Medical's technology freezes tumors using a probe and extremely cold temperatures (Courtesy)

Tumors to meet a frozen end at private Haifa hospital

By Shoshanna Solomon

IceCure’s tech to be used starting within a few months, initially on benign breast tumors and malignant kidney tumors

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