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In a 12-minute video, Robert Klempfner, MD, Director of the Cardiovascular Prevention Institute at Sheba Medical Center, explains the use of wearable technologies to manage personalized, remote cardiac rehabilitation programs for patients.

After initial examinations, her doctors in Israel prescribed chemotherapy and radiation simultaneously. This treatment regimen lasted three and half months, and initial results showed the therapy had been effective.

There are two types of bone marrow transplants, autologous (cells from the patient’s own body) and allogeneic (cells from a donor). Both types work by infusing filtered stem cells into the patient to replace destroyed or diseased bone marrow.

In sum, the IVF process involves the collection of mature eggs from ovaries and their fertilization by sperm in a laboratory. The embryo(s), which are the fertilized egg(s), are then placed in the uterus to develop and grow until they are ready to be born.

Spina bifida is a birth defect in the neural tube, which occurs when the spine and spinal cord don’t form correctly.

Since October, approximately 4,700 cases of measles have been diagnosed in Samoa, a tiny nation in the Pacific Islands.

In 2013, Pedro da Silva received intensive chemotherapy treatment for testicular cancer. In 2016, he was diagnosed with leukemia.

Doctors surgically remove part of the tumor and then isolate the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from it and genetically engineer them to hunt down and attack cancer cells.

Advanced medical technology has led to the development of CAR T-cell therapy, a breakthrough treatment for ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia) and NHL (non-Hodgkin lymphoma).