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Laris Achlaug (left) and Lama Awwad, PhD students, work in a lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. (Courtesy/Nitzan Zohar)
December 26, 2025, 7:27 pm
In surprising breakthrough, scientists in Israel find cancer may help heal the failing heart
Study by researchers at the Technion finds that injecting cancerous serum in mice decreased cardiac fibrosis — paving the way for innovative therapies
By Diana Bletter
Yael Eckstein holding hands of an elderly woman, Netta, in Israel. (Credit: Olivier Fitoussi)
October 20, 2025, 2:00 pm
Israelis’ life expectancy rises to 83.8, making it 4th among OECD countries
Report shows dramatic rise in life expectancy of both men and women from 2022 to 2023, despite Israel investing only 7.6% of its GDP in health
By Diana Bletter
Simon Fischler, center, with Dr. Ben Ben Avraham, left, and Prof. Leor Perl, right, after Fischler's groundbreaking emergency heart surgery at Rabin Medical Center. (Courtesy/Rabin Medical Center)
August 25, 2025, 4:37 pm
Israeli doctors perform 1st ever emergency mitral valve repair on heart transplant patient
33 years after Simon Fischler, 47, had a heart transplant, Rabin Medical Center team conducts procedure, attempted only twice before, but never on a patient in cardiogenic shock
By Diana Bletter
Doctors at Sheba Medical Center during an operation to transplant an artificial heart into a patient on May 29, 2025. (Courtesy/Sheba Spokesperson office)
June 7, 2025, 7:08 am
Israeli doctors are pumped after country’s first successful artificial heart transplants
Two patients are recovering well after receiving lifesaving procedure, which installs a NIS 2.1 million mechanical heart to allow normal activity until donor organs are available
By Diana Bletter
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, May 29, 2024. (Julia Nikhinson/AP)
September 9, 2024, 11:33 pm
Harvey Weinstein rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery
Disgraced movie mogul reportedly suffered chest pains in New York City jail where he is awaiting a retrial in rape cases
By Agencies
Image of two small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), one on top of the other, captured using cryogenic electron microscopy. The double-layer membrane, a hallmark of sEVs, is clearly visible. (Leor's lab, Neufeld and Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institutes, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and Lev Leviev Cardiovascular and Thoracic Center, Sheba Medical Center)
April 18, 2024, 9:55 pm
Tel Aviv University study finds link between heart attacks and cancer growth
Researchers shows factor-rich microscopic particles escape from the healing heart and travel through the bloodstream to reach existing tumors
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A heart model grown from stem cells (screenshot courtesy of Tissue Dynamics)
August 8, 2023, 8:16 pm
Created from stem cells, Israeli researchers grow tiny, beating model of human heart
The size of a third of a grain of rice, organoid connected to sensors reveals previously unknown aspects of cardiac physiology
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, sits with former prime minister Ehud Barak, left, as former IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz walks during a press conference at the Tel Nof Air Force base, October 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
July 16, 2023, 1:28 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 16: Elite IDF unit that spawned three PMs faces off with Netanyahu
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on tensions on Israel’s northern border and shooting attack in the West Bank; health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on Netanyahu’s new heart monitor
By ToI Staff
Yopi's AI-based wearable monitoring device tracks oxygen consumption.(Courtesy)
July 4, 2023, 9:33 am
Startup to build factory for ‘wearable’ that tracks oxygen consumption through sweat
Yopi has developed a monitoring device worn on the wrist to measure cardiorespiratory fitness; startup plans to recruit 70 employees at Sha’ar Hanegev plant in southern Israel
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Doctors carry out heart bypass surgery after heart failure (KentWeakley via iStock by Getty Images)
December 14, 2022, 4:55 pm
Israeli AI predicts heart failure in muscle inflammation patients with 80% accuracy
Myositis elevates chances of heart failure, so Rambam Hospital team built a special algorithm that analyzes ECG tests and gives early warning
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: a medic monitors a patient and checked his heart rate (Zinkevych via iStock by Getty Images)
November 22, 2022, 9:42 am
Israeli app sounds alarm before heart failure — just by analyzing your voice
In congestive heart failure study with recovered patients who used HearO, its technology predicts some 82% of relapses, catching them on average 18 days before they occur
By Nathan Jeffay
An illustrative photo of Medtronic's Canada headquarters in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. (JHVEPhoto via iStock by Getty Images)
July 12, 2022, 9:44 pm
Medtronic signs $585m option to buy Israeli medtech firm CathWorks
US-Irish healthcare tech giant to invest $75 million in Kfar Saba-headquartered outfit, the developer of a diagnostic tool for coronary artery disease
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative image: medics try to resuscitate a patient after a heart attack (Chalabala via iStock by Getty Images)
February 27, 2022, 2:11 pm
Israeli study mines donor poop for bacteria that could avert heart attacks
Researchers find most of 200 heart attack patients had important gut bacteria missing and believe restoring it may keep hearts healthier; wider trial planned
By Nathan Jeffay
A vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 in Seattle, January 24, 2021. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
July 10, 2021, 5:29 am
WHO sees ‘likely’ COVID vaccine link to rare heart inflammation
UN health body stresses benefits still outweigh risks, notes condition ‘very rare’ and mostly mild
By AFP
Holocaust survivors attend a ceremony at the Mishan elderly homes in Tel Aviv as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. May 4, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 7, 2021, 7:03 pm
Holocaust causing increased cancer, heart disease mortality in survivors – study
Researchers find 17% higher death rate from cancer among women who survived than those who did not suffer Nazi persecution; among men, 39% more survivors died of heart conditions
By ToI Staff
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