After Sounlove Zamor lost her limbs in last year’s quake, an L.A. group arranged for her to get prosthetics. She’s grateful to be walking well, but in her impoverished homeland, she feels there is nowhere to go.
By Ken Ellingwood, The Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2011
Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Special Screening on Saturday February 5th, 2010
Dear Friends,
Canadian Friends of Sheba Medical Center would like to invite you to a special screening of the award winning film, “Precious Life”. Continue reading
Eight-year-old Palestinian cancer patient treated near Tel Aviv grateful to Israeli doctors
by Meital Yasur Beit-Or, Ynetnews.com, 09.01.09
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3653230,00.html
Even though he is currently his Israel, while most of his family is in the Gaza Strip, Imad Tanani watches almost no television. His young daughter, eight-year-old Wala, is a cancer patient treated at the oncological department at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. Imad says he prefers not to expose his daughter to the difficult images from Gaza because they frighten her. Continue reading
March 16, 2009, by Ruth Eglash, THE JERUSALEM POST
Israel’s first all-encompassing center for child and teen victims of sexual and physical abuse will open Tuesday as a separate department at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. Continue reading
Feb. 19, 2009, Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , THE JERUSALEM POST
Israeli researchers are the first in the world to have documented that the injection of stem cells from aborted human fetuses can trigger tumors. Continue reading
Barak, Netanyahu, Ashkenazi
Visit Wounded Soldiers at Sheba
Israeli leaders and the world media made pilgrimages to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer this week, as “Operation Cast Lead” (Israel’s offensive against the Hamas in Gaza) came to an end. Defense Minister Lt. Gen. (res.) Ehud Barak, himself Israel’s most decorated soldier and a former prime minister, visited with wounded IDF soldiers in treatment at Sheba. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, also a former prime minister, visited with soldiers, as well. Continue reading
January 25, 2009
Sheba CEO Prof. Zeev Rotstein and Sheba Heart Center director Prof. Michael Eldar are pleased to announce that Mr. Eli Davidai of Romania has generously agreed to support the establishment of a new center for the Treatment of Arrhythmia in the Sheba Heart Center. Mr. Davidai’s significant contribution will allow Sheba to expand its electro-physiology and pacemaker units, and better treat patients with various heart rhythm problems. The Davidai Center for the Treatment of Arrhythmia will be supported by Sheba’s atrial fibrillation research center (established recently in collaboration with the department of cardiac surgery). The Davidai Center will be directed by Prof. Michael Glikson.
