Good News Israel presents Israeli researchers make breakthrough in fight against cancer; FDA approves Teva asthma treatment and much more.

By Michael Ordman

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Natural chemicals that protect against cancer

Scientists working in the Technion laboratory of Israeli Nobel Prize winner Professor Aaron Ciechanover have discovered that high concentrations of the chemical KPC1 and protein p50 suppress malignant growth and protect healthy cells.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/breakthrough-in-cancer-research-300064078.html

Stop cell “spam” to prevent cancer

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have identified that cancer can be triggered by an overload of specific messages from the cell membrane to its nucleus. They have also found a molecule that can filter these messages, similar to the way spam emails are blocked.
http://nocamels.com/2015/04/blocking-information-stops-cancer-spread/

Pomegranate juice and dates for healthy arteries

Researchers at Israel’s Technion and Haifa’s Rambam hospital have discovered that combining pomegranate juice and dates (with their pits) provides maximum protection against the buildup of plaque on the endothelium of the arteries, and prevents heart attack or stroke.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Health/Technion-research-Pomegranate-date-combination-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away-396565 http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/fo/c4fo00998c#!divAbstract

Heart muscle re-grown after heart attack

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute working with Australian scientists have used the hormone neuregulin to re-grow heart tissue damaged by a heart attack or heart disease. See this rare positive report in the normally anti-Israel UK Guardian. Also published in Nature Cell Biology.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/07/heart-muscle-cells-regrown-in-medical-research-breakthrough http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ncb3149.html

FDA approves Teva asthma treatment

Israel’s Teva has received FDA approval for ProAir RespiClick – the first and only breath-actuated, dry-powder rescue inhaler to be approved by the FDA for the treatment of acute asthma symptoms. ProAir RespiClick eliminates the need for hand-breath coordination during inhalation.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-teva-asthma-treatment-receives-fda-approval-1001025040

Auto-immunology – a new specialty of medicine

Professor Yehuda Shoenfeld of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer has founded the field of auto-immunology and connected 81 different diseases through the immune system. The latest is narcolepsy from which sufferers fall asleep due to an autoimmune reaction.
http://nocamels.com/2015/04/narcolepsy-autoimmune-disease-research/

AposTherapy marches on

Good video showing how successful the remedial shoes of Israel’s AposTherapy have become in the US. Its new CEO stopped building clinics and now trains physiotherapists to use AposTherapy shoes on patients suffering back and ligament pain. (Stop the video after the Apos feature.)
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000368723

Diabetic technology goes global

Israeli medical tech firm DreaMed Diabetes has struck a deal with Medtronic, the world’s biggest medical device company, to use its MD-Logic Artificial Pancreas algorithm in Medtronic’s insulin pumps. The algorithm regulates the insulin released to the diabetic individual.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/diabetics-worldwide-to-benefit-from-artificial-pancreas/

 

 

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