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Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Illustrative: A brown rat (Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com)
March 16, 2024, 7:15 am
Rail construction in Tel Aviv may be behind a surge in rat-related disease cases
Patients diagnosed with flea-borne typhus and leptospirosis at area hospitals have reported seeing the rodents in their neighborhoods, and even in their homes
By Renee Ghert-Zand
One of the 10 operating rooms in a new 'mini-hospital' for ambulatory surgery at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov Hospital, February 2024. (Jenny Yerushalmi)
February 28, 2024, 2:36 pm
Surgery without a stay: Ichilov hospital unveils new operating rooms to cut wait times
System supporting 10 new operating rooms uses digital health to offer optimal care without adding beds to hospital’s wards
By Renee Ghert-Zand
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal Herzog (right) visit with a wounded soldier and staff at the Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital in Ra'anana, November 13, 2023 (Courtesy of Loewenstein Hospital)
December 17, 2023, 9:10 am
War caught Israeli rehab hospitals unprepared to handle number of wounded
Crucial aspect of recovery in danger if more beds are not opened and additional staff not hired to heal body and soul: ‘There is no rehabilitation without mental health’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A woman undergoing an MRI scan (Povozniuk via iStock by Getty Images)
September 20, 2023, 6:05 pm
Israeli researchers develop noninvasive method to assess iron levels in brain
Using MRI images and physical calculations, team led by Hebrew University PhD student gains vital data previously available only via autopsy or tissue sample examinations
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hadassah Medical Center staff assist a head and neck cancer clinical trial patient before she undergoes proton therapy by the P-Cure, Modiin Israel, April 2023. (Courtesy of P-Cure)
May 18, 2023, 10:12 am
Proton therapy, touted as cancer killer without side effects, set for Israel debut
Hadassah Medical Center partners with Israeli company P-Cure in study comparing treatment with traditional X-ray radiation; Ichilov inks deal for first proton therapy center
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A doctor prepares an epidural (Dmitry Andreev via iStock by Getty Images)
November 6, 2022, 1:01 pm
Health Ministry strikes deal for epidural shipments, alleviating fears of shortage
Israel Midwives Association says ministry has located alternate sources for anesthesia kits, easing the concerns of many pregnant women
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: a woman giving birth. (gorodenkoff via iStock by Getty Images)
October 11, 2022, 1:06 pm
Doctors scramble to avert possible epidural shortage in Israel as stock dwindles
With supplies on pace to run out within two months, Midwives Association assures women nobody will lack an epidural, as efforts kick in to find new sources
By Nathan Jeffay
Prof. Ronni Gamzu director of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 21, 2022, 5:09 pm
Ronni Gamzu steps down as head of Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital after 7 years at helm
Former Health Ministry director-general and coronavirus czar says he will continue to work on innovation at medical center, hints at running for public office
By ToI Staff
One of the new ER robots at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center guides a patient (courtesy of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center)
July 28, 2022, 2:03 pm
World’s largest ER opens in Israel, raising bar for tech and scale in emergency med
President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid open new 8,000 square meter Tel Aviv facility boasting self-triage and robots to help you find your way
By Nathan Jeffay
A woman smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes in cancer recovery (SeventyFour via iStock by Getty Images)
March 11, 2021, 4:15 pm
Cannabis can prevent major chemotherapy side effect, Israeli study suggests
Popular cancer drug damages nerves in 70% of patients, but when cannabis is taken before treatment, that figure drops to 25%
By Nathan Jeffay
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool via AP)
January 7, 2021, 11:12 pm
Unveiling deal, Netanyahu promises enough vaccines to beat COVID by end of March
With Pfizer to ship millions of doses from Sunday, Israel will be first in world out of pandemic, PM says; will share data with firm, acting as ‘model country’ for global strategy
By ToI Staff
A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on December 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 5, 2021, 1:11 am
Health minister halts vaccine supply to Tel Aviv hospital that injected teachers
Yuli Edelstein fumes after Ichilov vaccinates thousands of teaching staff, many below 60 and not in risk groups; hospital chief says rules were followed, didn’t want to waste doses
By ToI Staff
The baby born October 14, 2020, after an ex utero intrapartum procedure at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (courtesy of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center)
October 15, 2020, 1:00 pm
Halfway through birth, Tel Aviv doctors open baby’s tumor-blocked airways
With the baby’s head in doctors’ hands and the body still in the mother’s uterus, a staff of 30 bypassed his tumor, avoiding fatal oxygen deprivation
By Nathan Jeffay
Doctors at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center treat a patient in the coronavirus unit, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
June 9, 2020, 11:07 pm
A unique pattern of damage: Israeli team shows how coronavirus harms the heart
Tel Aviv doctors find 40% of all hospitalized COVID-19 patients have the same pattern of indirect cardio damage; discovery should help understand the disease better
By Nathan Jeffay
Shaarei Zedek hospital medical team, wearing protective clothing, as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in Jerusalem on March 30, 2020 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 18, 2020, 11:13 am
Tel Aviv hospital spares rare protective gear to allow visits to dying relatives
Sourasky Medical Center provides head-to-toe protective wear and allows 15 minutes to say goodbye before assisting with removal of mask, robe, gloves, boots to stop virus infection
By ISAAC SCHARF
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