Medical Team from AFS sets out for Ukraine

Medical Team from AFS sets out for Ukraine

The group is part of the “Shining Star” Mission and will be in charge of the pediatric section of the Israeli field hospital set up there The medical team from Schneider Children’s Medical Center comprises 9 members of 4 pediatricians and 5 nurses,...
Major Breakthrough in Blood Cancer Research

Major Breakthrough in Blood Cancer Research

Research Conducted at AFS has uncovered the causes for developing one of the most lethal types of Leukemia For the first time in the history of science, researchers manipulated normal human blood cells to become malignant leukemia cells, using advanced technologies in...
Adverse Effect of Antibiotics on Infants with RSV?

Adverse Effect of Antibiotics on Infants with RSV?

International research led by Prof. Avi Beigelman of AFS finds that antibiotics given to insfants hospitalized with RSV are not effective in preventing asthma and recurrent wheezing episodes “It is even possible that there is an increased risk of recurrent...
JOINED IN BODY

JOINED IN BODY

A mother of 7 donates a kidney to 8-year old she doesn’t know, and saves the girl’s life. A usually healthy child, Pari’s condition deteriorated to life-threatening kidney failure due to a congenital disease of which all were altogether unaware; the kidney...
Medical Team from AFS sets out for Ukraine

TO SEE THE SUN

Last week, an 11-year-old girl hospitalized at AFS, where she was connected to the ECMO machine for over 40 days, asked the staff to go outside to the sunshine. The moment that the sun peeked through the clouds, the attending team (doctor, nurse and ECMO operators)...