Good News Israel presents creating vaccines from your own cells; a new treatment to stop pain and much more.

By Michael Ordman

 

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Vaccines from your own cells

Israeli biotech SynVaccine is developing safe synthetic vaccines from the recipient’s own tissue cells, which the body’s immune system can easily recognize and build protection. In addition, SynVaccine’s computer-engineered vaccines cannot release the original virus.
http://nocamels.com/2015/04/synvaccine-safe-vaccine-solution-synthetic/

Treatment to stop pain

Israel’s Teva has begun a Phase 2b trial of TV-45070 in patients with post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). TV-45070 inhibits the sodium channels expressed in the pain-sensing peripheral nervous system and can treat patients with various pain indications, including neuropathic and osteo-arthritis pain.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/teva-xenon-announce-enrollment-first-120000506.html

Cause of ovarian failure discovered

Tel Aviv University and Schneider Medical Center researchers have discovered a genetic mutation responsible for Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) that affects one percent of all women worldwide. The study began after DNA testing two affected Israeli-Arab girls.
http://nocamels.com/2015/03/primary-ovarian-insufficiency-genetic-mutation/

US journalists see Israeli medical innovations

For the past 10 years, the Murray Fromson American Associates, Ben-Gurion University Media Mission has brought US reporters and editors to see cutting-edge Israeli research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. This year’s themes included neuroscience, stem cells and medical robotics.
http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/3/25/for-us-journalists-ben-gurion-u-science-mission-more-than-an-assignment-1#.VRO6-Y4pqSo=

Saving lives of the wounded

A higher percentage of Israelis were seriously or critically injured in last summer’s Operation Protective Edge than in the 2006 Lebanon War. Yet recovery times were faster and treatment much more effective this time, thanks to faster evacuation to hospital and technology to stop bleeding.
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/66066-150330-israel-better-care-helped-save-soldiers-in-latest-army-campaign

Prize for life

Israel’s Prize4Life is funding $1 million prizes for research and treatment for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). At Tel Aviv’s BrainTech 2015 conference, every delegate stood up to applaud Prize4Life’s CEO and ALS sufferer Shay Rishoni, who demonstrated a device that translates eye movements into computerized voice.
http://blog.applysci.com/?p=3618

 

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