Tel aviv sourasky medical center

Israeli scientists launch worlds-first clinical trial for experimental pancreatic cancer treatment

The Israeli-developed treatment uses RNA molecules to silence mutated KRAS genes and will be tested alongside standard therapy in patients with locally advanced disease.

An illustration showing siRNA targeting a cancerous tumor.
Participants from Latvia, the Philippines, Azerbaijan, Germany, Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Nigeria, France, Canada, the Czech Republic, the United States and Hong Kong took part in the three-day program.

Global health leaders gather at Ichilov Medical Center to learn crisis preparedness

ENTERING THE emergency room at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

Health Ministry investigating daycares after 15 toddlers suffer food poisoning symptoms

The aftermath of a bus crashing into a store in Ramat Gan, February 6, 2026.

WATCH: Woman hospitalized after bus crashes into store in Ramat Gan, injuring 11


Israeli hospital spokesman faces dismissal after Oct. 7 press conference

Fallout from the press conference with freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz leads to potential firing of Avi Shushan, spokesperson for Sourasky Medical Center, with over 13 years of service.


Tel Aviv hospital manages to extract sperm from Hamas victim

Since the attacks began on October 7, dozens of families have approached the Health Ministry asking to collect the sperm of the young men killed.


What is your brain's iron level? New Israeli non-invasive tech can find out

The “groundbreaking” MRI technology promises to revolutionize scientists’ understanding of iron homeostasis in the human brain. 

 Non-invasive approach for assessment of normal and impaired iron homeostasis in the brain.

Israeli teen saved from blindness at Sourasky

To cure Eyal’s problem and prevent the deterioration in his eye, he had to undergo a complex and challenging operation.

 Eyal Mordechai Ben-Hamu and Dr. Shulamit Schwartz

New program for Integrating Physician-Scientists in Bio-medical Research at Tel Aviv University

This program will help create a new generation of physicians that will have ‘protected time’ to perform research, with a reduction in their clinical responsibilities.

 Faculty of Medicine - Tel Aviv University

Israeli doctors save pregnant woman, baby from ruptured artery

The operating room was a battlefield for the lives of the mother and her son as a crisis developed surrounding a ruptured artery in the spleen.

 Tatiana Cohen is seen with her child at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center after lifesaving surgery.

Tel Aviv terror victim saves another two lives with cornea donations

Those that received the transplants were a 75-year-old man and an 81-year-old woman.

 Chen Amir, who was murdered by a terrorist in Tel Aviv on Saturday, August 5, 2023.

What is fibromyalgia, the widespread chronic pain, fatigue condition? - explainer

Many people who suffer from fibromyalgia describe it as a chronic flu, with widespread pain and chronic fatigue.

 Back pain

Fast and fatal: What you should know about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease is a severe neurodegenerative genetic condition that usually causes death within a year and is more common in Israel. Here is what you should know.

 Examining the inner workings of the brain, where neurodegenerative diseases can occur (Illustrative).

Got migraines? FDA approved Pfizer's nasal spray treatment

Every day, there are 40,000 migraine attacks in Israel. This new Pfizer treatment could help

 Close-up of unrecognizable woman using nasal spray