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Prof. Tal Dvir, Head of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Head of the Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University, and Chief Scientist of the biotech company Matricelf. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
August 21, 2025, 1:43 pm
In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord
With Health Ministry okay, Tel Aviv University prof will perform surgery that will mark the first time pieces of spine are engineered from human cells and then transplanted
By Diana Bletter
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Teodoro Forcht Dagi at Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, October 2023. (Maayan Janus/Sheba Medical Center)
November 13, 2023, 4:15 pm
Top US neurosurgeon volunteers hard-won wartime expertise at Sheba Medical Center
Mayo Clinic head trauma specialist Dr. Teodoro Dagi brings knowledge gained from global conflict work – including in Kosovo and Northern Ireland – to treating Israel’s war-injured
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Cezar Mizrahi uses augmented reality robotic technology in complex minimally invasive spine surgery for the first time in the world in August 2023. (Courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)
August 30, 2023, 2:31 pm
In global first, Shaare Zedek spine surgeon combines augmented reality with robotics
25-year-old patient with severely broken back after falling from a height was on his feet and walking without assistance less than a day after the procedure
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Ohad Einav and Ziv Asa with 12-year-old Suleiman Hassan at Hadassah Medical Center following his recovery after surgery to reattach his head to his neck after he suffered internal decapitation in an accident. (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)
July 5, 2023, 7:55 pm
Hadassah surgeons reattach boy’s head to his neck after internal decapitation
Suleiman, 12, who was hit by a car while riding his bicycle, undergoes extremely rare operation after his ligaments were broken, base of skull severed from spine’s top vertebra
By Renee Ghert-Zand
3D Illustration Concept of Spinal Cord (iStock via Getty Images)
February 7, 2022, 10:00 am
World 1st: Hope for paralyzed as Israeli lab spinal cords restore mice mobility
Tech got 12 out of 15 mice in study moving well; human trial expected in less than 3 years, aiming to ‘offer all paralyzed people hope that they may walk again’
By Nathan Jeffay
A back surgeon looks at a 3D model of a patient's spinal column in preparation for surgery using the Mazor Renaissance system. (Courtesy)
September 21, 2018, 1:57 pm
In biggest-ever Israeli biotech exit, Medtronic buys Mazor for $1.6b
Irish-US firm vows to continue development of Israeli robotics technology that helps surgeons perform safer and more accurate surgeries
By ToI Staff
Unidentified medical personnel from Hadassah Medical Center in Israel and the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia, confer during a Hadassah team’s mission in Ethiopia to perform spinal surgeries on young patients, March 2018. (Courtesy of Hadassah via JTA)
March 27, 2018, 5:55 am
Israeli doctors perform lifesaving spinal surgeries in Ethiopia
Surgeon says some cases ‘were so bad that if we wouldn’t have operated… at least half of them would be dead by next year’
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem performing surgery, Jerusalem, March 5, 1990. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)
April 27, 2016, 9:36 pm
Innovative Israeli surgery gives Palestinian toddler new lease on life
‘There are no politics in a hospital, only people,’ says Hadassah doctor who saved Gaza three-year-old Suleiman from a lifetime of paralysis
By Tamar Pileggi
Italian surgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero (Photo credit: YouTube screen capture)
April 11, 2015, 9:38 am
Doctor seeks head transplant in 2 years
Surgeon Sergio Canavero says he wishes to help sufferers of degenerative diseases, but experts warn of fate worse than death
By ToI Staff
A back surgeon looks at a 3D model of a patient's spinal column in preparation for surgery using the Mazor Renaissance system. (Courtesy)
September 9, 2014, 6:17 pm
Chinese back patients get pain relief with Israeli tech
Mazor Robotics brings spine surgery system to the world’s most populous country after approval by health officials
By David Shamah
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