Tag: Medicine
February 5, 1993: Hans Jonas, a pioneer of medical ethics, died
Hans Jonas, who fled Nazi Germany (his mother died in Auschwitz), fought in Israel’s war of independence, and in 1964 publicly denounced his mentor, Martin Heidegger, for having pro-Nazi views, died on this date...
December 3, 1857: Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine...
Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic, was born in Bohemia on this date in 1857. A medical colleague of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Koller recognized...
A doctor without borders
Micka, 23, was the last person rescued from under the rubble of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and brought to the Israel Defense Forces field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Though one leg had to be amputated,...
Jewish scientist among three recipients of Nobel Prize for medicine
A Jewish scientist was one of three professors jointly awarded on Monday the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Harvey J. Alter, along with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, received the prestigious prize for...
Israeli surgeons safely remove disappearing bullet from boy’s brain
On the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Friday, in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire hit a 9-year-old boy in the head.
He was rushed to Hadassah...
Australia-Israel relationship a ‘mateship’ based on trade, trust and mutual values
At the 43rd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that recently concluded, Australia was the only country to vote against all five anti-Israel resolutions, including the notoriously biased Agenda Item 7.
In Australia’s...
As many as 500 cyclists to gear up for 20th ‘Wheels of Love’ charity...
The luggage-handlers at Ben-Gurion International Airport have seen an increase in the number of bicycles coming in and out of late, as an expected 500 participants from 12 countries arrive to participate in the...
Jewish community raises more than $2 million in five days for drug to treat...
The Jewish community in and outside South Florida raised more than $2 million for a young couple in Aventura, Fla., to be able to afford the world’s most expensive treatment—a $2.1 million drug called...
Yeshiva University to NYC-based hub for Israeli startups
Yeshiva University is scheduled to launch a hub this month for Israeli startups based in New York City to enable Israeli entrepreneurs access to business infrastructure and access to students among other tools.
The YU...
This Jewish Scientist Discovered The Magic of THC
In the early 1960s, a Bulgarian-born scientist named Raphael Mechoulam was caught carrying five kilograms of, as he called it, “superb, smuggled Lebanese hashish” on a bus from Tel Aviv to Rehovot. But he wasn’t...