Rabin Medical Center set a record for organ transplants in Israel when in a recent 24-hour period, six transplants were performed, including one heart, two lungs, one liver and two kidneys, thus saving the lives of six patients. A 61-year-old man waited four years for the heart. The liver was transplanted into a 58-year-old man suffering from Hepatitis C who had been on the waiting list for 10 years. The kidney transplants were carried out in a sevenyear- old boy from Schneider Children's Medical Center and in a 48-year-old woman. Rabin Medical Center's Department of Organ Transplantation, under the direction of Prof. Eytan Mor, deserves its fine reputation because it allows Rabin Medical Center to carry out the majority of organ transplants in Israel.
A distinguished heart surgeon
from Rabin Medical Center
in Israel visited South Florida in
April to discuss with the medical
community new technologies in
minimally invasive heart surgery
using robotics, so that patients
may resume activities within
three days.
Almost 1/3 of the overall world population will suffer from some type of back pain. Now for some there is an alternative to conventional surgery.
Ask people what they fear most about any medical procedure and they'll tell you it's not the operation itself but the pain that goes with it.