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Sheba Medical Center Welcomes Charite Representatives
Yesterday, Sheba Medical Center welcomed representatives from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a hospital also ranking among the World's Top 10 Best Hospitals. The two teams discussed remote telehealth, using Sheba Beyond for treating patients with long covid and...
PwC Australia’s 2022 Virtual Health Knowledge Share event
With guest speakers from 4 different continents, PwC Australia’s 2022 Virtual Health Knowledge Share event provided a platform to share experiences that inform, inspire, engage, as well as reflect on lessons learned by global virtual health experts. Discussions...
Prof. Eyal Leshem on the Monkeypox Outbreak –
Monkeypox is becoming an increasing concern among the international community with over 1,000 cases reported as of last Monday. With its usual spread confined to Central and West Africa, experts are seeking answers as to where the recent outbreak in North America,...
Bipartisan Washington Delegation Visits Sheba
Last week, a bipartisan congressional staff delegation from Washington, D.C. visited Sheba Medical Center as part of a fact-finding mission revolving around healthcare issues. The delegation, led by Tim Buckley, First Secretary Environment, Science, Technology and...
Sheba Partners with Private Medical Companies in Morocco
Sheba Medical Center has begun negotiating with several major private health sector companies and hospitals in Morocco. The delegation from Sheba, led by Deputy Director-General Prof. Arnon Afek, marks the beginning of a new era of collaborations between Abraham...
Prof. Kreiss Speaks to the UN
Earlier this week, Professor Yitshak Kreiss, Director General of Sheba Medical Center, addressed United Nations representatives. Prof. Kreiss highlighted Sheba's impact on Israeli society and discussed the hospital's global reach through humanitarian aid missions such...
Sheba Medical Center & Peter Mac Sign MOU
Sheba Medical Center and PeterMacCallum Cancer Center have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster strategic international cooperation, research, and development. The agreement was formally signed on May 20th, 2022 by representatives of Australian Friends...
Heramed Technology Integrated into Joondalup Health Campus
Herabeat Israel - מוניטור דופק עובר ביתי's remote maternal monitoring technology is the latest technology to be integrated into Joondalup Health Campus Public & Private's range of services and care for pregnant women. This has been made possible by the...
Sheba Medical Center Staff Prepare for National Drill
Medical staff at Sheba Medical Center have been hard at work! Along with auxiliary services, workers have been preparing for the regular national drill that will take place on the hospital campus next month. This drill stimulates and trains responders for a rapid...
Ukrainian Child Receives Life-saving Surgery
Oksana, a Ukrainian child just over a year old, needed help when she was diagnosed with a congenital malformation of the skull. When the war in Ukraine caused the local hospital to cancel her surgery, Oksana's desperate parents almost gave up. Sheba Medical Center...
Sheba Medical Center: Leaders in Clinical Research
Did you know Sheba Medical Center is leading the way in clinical research? See what we have accomplished from 2018-2021!
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Sheba Medical Center Welcomes Delegation from St Luke’s
Today Sheba welcomed a delegation from St Luke's Hospital, the largest hospital in the Philippines. The two medical centers have been hard at work, learning from one another and designing new collaborations. In particular, elements of Sheba's renowned ARC innovation...
Ukrainian Twins Treated at Sheba’s Goldschleger Eye Institute
Due to the progression of an aggressive form of retinopathy, 7-year old Ukrainian twins Mykhailo and Timofey were granted entry to Israel by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They were immediately brought to the Sheba Medical Center's Goldschleger Eye...
Prof. Elhanan Bar-On Flies to Ethiopia
Prof. Elhanan Bar-On, MD, Director of Sheba's Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response, flew to Ethiopia today after returning from an intensive 6-week humanitarian mission in Ukraine. There, he met with the Minister of Health, Dr.Liya Tadesse, to...
Sheba Medical Center Treats 4-year-old Gazan Boy
4-year-old Hassan was born with dextrocardia, a rare heart condition. He has been coming to Sheba Medical Center from the Gaza Strip every month since he was born. Watch i24NEWS English's report featuring Hassan, as well as other children who make the journey...
9-year-old Ukrainian Refugee Arrives in Israel for Treatment
9-year-old Darina, a Ukrainian refugee, sustained serious leg injuries because of the war. She was brought to the Israeli Field Hospital for treatment where the medical staff decided she should be sent to the Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital in Israel for...
Welcoming the new Sheba team to Ukraine
Help us celebrate the work of our outgoing team who have worked tirelessly these last two weeks and welcome the new team coming to relieve them. They will continue our mission to provide the highest quality Israeli medical care to the Ukrainian refugees in need. If...
Day 2 of the Mission Shining Star
Israel has brought all of these services and more to assist the Ukrainian refugees in need. If you know anyone in need in the area, you can share this google maps link to view the exact coordinates of the field hospital https://goo.gl/maps/xJRwASXCdVuZQ2Ha6 or GPS...
Day 1 of the Mission Shining Star
Our physicians are already seeing patients! Dr. Galia Barkai, MD MBA, COO of Sheba Beyond, reviews scans of a refugee who arrived in Mostyska, Ukraine today. One of the first patients to be treated was this 12-year-old girl who fled with her mother, a nurse by...
Kiddush in Mostyska
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Emotional Reunion Between Dr. Ana Levine and her
This morning, an emotional reunion took place at the Shining Star Field Hospital in Mostyska. Dr. Anna Levin was reunited with her mother Natalia, who was rescued from a battle zone in Liotopol, Ukraine. Dr. Levin and her mother rejoiced when they heard Natalia will...
Eytan Stibbe Initiates Sheba Experiments in International Space
Today, Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe will begin initiating the experiments he took with him to the International Space Station as part of the Rakia Mission. Sheba Medical Center sent 6 unique experiments with Stibbe that will test the boundaries of human physiology...
C-Section Performed in ‘Shining Star’ Hospital in Ukraine
Doctors at the Israeli field hospital in Ukraine delivered the first baby born through this vital operation's efforts last Thursday. The baby was born via C-section and marks an important milestone in this hospital's development. As the situation in Ukraine continues,...
AJN Speaks to Sheba’s Yoel Har-Even about ‘Shining
The Australian Jewish News spoke to Yoel Har-Even, Director of the 'Shining Star' field hospital in Ukraine about the process of the hospital's foundation and its current activities. As Yoel Har-Even so aptly stated, "We came to show solidarity with suffering people,...
Operation ‘Shining Star’ Provides ‘high-level medicine’ to patients
Galia Barkai LIVE from Ukraine on Sky News
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Israel opens humanitarian field hospital in war-torn Ukraine
Humanitarian Mission Lifts Off
We have lift-off! The State of Israel's Shining Star Humanitarian Mission led by Sheba Medical Center, in partnership with the Israel Ministry of Health (משרד הבריאות) and the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is en route to Mostyska, Ukraine. Once there our staff...
Sheba Prepares in Ukraine – The Shining Star
The Sheba Medical logistics team has been hard at work setting up 17 tons of equipment in Mostyska ahead of the arrival of 60+ medical staff on Monday. This includes a satellite dish to maintain optimal internet, and phone and digital communications to support the...
Sheba Flies to Ukraine
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just given Sheba Medical Center the green light to send its crew of humanitarian aid healthcare workers to Ukraine. Today the gear flies out with the logistics team. Wishing them a safe journey to Ukraine.
Meet the Refugees Sheba is Helping in Ukraine
Dr. Avi Tsur, Director of ObGyn Beyond, performs a remote telehealth consult using Sheba Beyond's remote patient technology (PNM) in order to clear the Savenchuck Family to board the United Hatzalah of Israel's rescue flight to Israel from Ukraine in less than 24...
Yoel Har Even on Sky News Australia
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Idan Goldberger on Sky News
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Doctors in Israel care for Ukrainians 2000km away
Sheba Medical Center Announces Collaboration with GE Healthcare
Last month, Sheba Medical Center announced a collaboration with GE Healthcare in several vital fields of research and development and held a first of its kind virtual summit. Delighted to work with our new partners to help advance to the future of healthcare! Read...
Sheba’s virtual hospital is caring for Ukrainian refugees
Director-General of Sheba Beyond, Dr. Galia Barkai, sends off Sarit Lerner, CTO of Sheba Beyond, who is being deployed as part of the United Hatzalah of Israel's humanitarian mission to Ukraine. We wish her and the entire team luck for a successful and safe mission....
Sheba Ranks Top 10 Newsweek Hospital for Fourth
For the 4th year in a row, Sheba Medical Center ranked among the World's Top 10 Best Hospitals. We are grateful and determined to continue changing the future of healthcare in Israel and around the globe. Read more here.
Ukraine: Sheba Beyond helping pregnant women and babies
Pregnant Patient and Ukrainian refugee Sarah Misk speaks with Prof Gadi Segal, MD during a remote patient consultation using Sheba Beyond’s Tyto Care telehealth technology, brought to Moldova by Sarit Lerner as part of Sheba Medical Center’s humanitarian aid mission....
Sheba Medical Center serves as the first clinical
Sheba Medical Center to serve as the first clinical trial site outside of the US studying vaccines specifically aimed against Omicron and other Covid variants. Explains Professor Gili Regev-Yochay, Director of the Infection Prevention & Control Unit at Sheba...
Sheba Medical Center Provides Lifesaving Catheter Valve Replacement
Ten-year-old Vera traveled with her mother from Ukraine to Safra Children's Hospital in Sheba Medical Center in Israel for a lifesaving catheter valve replacement. Explains Dr. Sharon Borik Chiger, a senior pediatric cardiologist at Sheba Medical Center who led Vera's...
Meet Sheba the Dog!
The directors of the Friends of Sheba Medical Center organizations from around the world got to meet Sheba, The Dog! As a result of a generous donation, Sheba was purchased and specially trained from an early age to help rehab patients return to a normal routine, and...
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The ESCMID - European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases released a study conducted by Dr. Carmit Cohen of Sheba Medical Center. The study found the quality of coronavirus antibodies increases following infection, but not after vaccination....
Karim Hakimi & Idan Goldberger on Israel Connexion
Karim Hakimi fled Afghanistan following the capitulation by the United States to the Taliban. He is currently languishing in the Emirates Humanitarian Camp facility in Abu Dhabi. Hakimi is the human face behind the Afghanistan-Israel Friendship Association....
Israel’s Sheba Medical Centre Expands its Global Network
Australian Friends of Sheba Medical Centre comprised of expert medical professionals and financial advisors, catalyzing collaboration and investment opportunities with leading world hospital RAMAT GAN, Israel – July 1, 2021 – Sheba Medical Centre, the largest medical...
‘Sheba medics restored my life’
IT was a profound encounter for Idan Goldberger when the Australian-based Israeli, seriously wounded in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), thanked the surgeon and the speech therapist who restored his quality of life in the Rehabilitation Hospital at Israel’s Sheba...
Sheba Ranked as a World’s Best Smart Hospital!
Sheba was ranked in Newsweek’s World's Best Smart Hospitals 2021 as the #13 smart hospital in the world, and first in Israel, out of 250 top world smart hospitals. This accomplishment demonstrates Sheba's place as a world leader, not only through its previous ranking...
Sheba in Space
ARC Space Lab will be sending eight medical experiments into orbit with Eytan Stibbe, Israel’s second space traveler, on Axiom Space’s first private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2022. Read more here.
Cooperation between Sheba Beyond and the United Arab
Sheba's experts will remotely treat diabetes and instruct gynecologistsThe Sheba Medical Center has signed two new cooperation agreements with the UAE. The first deal was signed with between the Al Tadawi Medical Center and Sheba Beyond. 350 diabetics of the UAE...
On Target: Sheba’s Project Arrow Propels Youth into
Sheba Medical Center's Project Arrow ("Chetz") young researchers apprenticeship program celebrated a milestone last week with an emotional ceremony marking the completion of another successful year. Established in 2006, the innovative project matches selected medical...