Medicine and Manasseh ben Israel

Genetics and genomic medicine in Israel

The State of Israel that was declared independent in 1948 is a country that is ~450 km in length and 180 km at its maximum width (Fig. 1). At the end of 2012 there were 7,984,500 inhabitants in Israel among which 5,999,600 (75.1%) were Jews, 1,387,600 (17.4%) Muslim Arabs, 158,400 (2.0%) Christian Arabs, and 131,500 (1.6%) Druzes (Statistical Abstracts of Israel 2013). In 2012, there were 170,9...

Defensive Medicine in Israel – A Nationwide Survey

BACKGROUND Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability. We studied the extent, reasons, and characteristics of defensive medicine in the Israeli health care system. METHODS AND FINDINGS Cross-sectional study performed in the Israeli health care system between April and July 2008 in a sample ...

Progress report: emergency medicine in southern Israel.

The case for orthopaedic medicine in Israel

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal complaints are probably the most frequent reasons for visiting a doctor. They comprise more than a quarter of the complaints to primary practitioners and are also the most common reason for referral to secondary or tertiary medicine. The clinicians most frequently consulted on musculoskeletal problems, and probably perceived to know most on the topic are orthopaedic s...

Investigation of Chalcogenide Glassy Semiconductors in the Ben-gurion University (israel)

The study of chalcogenide glassy semiconductors (ChGS) in the Ben-Gurion University (Israel) started in early 1992 and was based on the results obtained in the A. F. Ioffe PhysicoTechnical Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia). Most investigations were performed in the following directions: structural transformations induced by short intense light pulses, photoinduced optical anisotropy, photoindu...