Israeli Bio Med Firm Mapi Pharma Makes Headway In MS Medication
Israeli biomed firm Mapi Pharma Ltd., which is a development stage pharmaceutical company, announced that the first patient was treated in the company’s Phase IIa study of a new drug for the treatment More...
YU Deal to Unload Albert Einstein Falls Through
It looks like a deal for Yeshiva University to hand over control of its Albert Einstein College of Medicine to healthcare giant Montefiore is floundering. A Yeshiva University spokesman said that the two institutions More...
Israeli EarlySense Joins Initiative to Monitor Patients On Opiods
EarlySense, an Israeli company which develops contact free monitoring solutions, announced its active involvement in the National Coalition to Promote Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids. An opioid More...
Israeli Gi View Colorectal Cancer Scope Gets FDA Approval
Israel’s GI View Ltd., a developer of advanced GI screening systems, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its flagship product, the Aer-O-Scope Colonoscope System, which the company More...
Oral Drug Delivery Systems Oramed Sells $5 Million in Stock to the Chinese
Israel’s Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a developer of oral drug delivery systems, confirmed that it has received $5 million in connection with the definitive agreement with Guangxi Wuzhou Pharmaceutical Co., More...
Stabbing in Rami Levy Supermarket in Mishor Adumim
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed two people in the Rami Levy supermarket of Mishor Adumim, east of Jerusalem. Both of the victims are men in their 50s, with one of them sustaining wounds to the head and shoulder More...
Israel’s RealView Imaging Raises $10 Million from Chinese Investors
– – Israeli organ hologram company RealView imaging has raised $10 million in a round of funding led by the Chinese investment firm LongTec. The infusion of new capital will be used by the startup More...
Teva appoints Yitzhak Peterburg as Chairman
– Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ((NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Professor Yitzhak Peterburg as Chairman, effective January 1, 2015. Prof. Peterburg, More...
Scandal-plagued former Washington mayor Marion Barry dies
– Marion Barry, the scandal-plagued former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was jailed for smoking crack cocaine before making a surprising return to office, died early on Sunday aged 78. Before More...
Israel’s Efranat Raises $4.5 Million to Cure Cancer
Can a new Israeli company really find a cure for cancer? Efranat just raised $4.5 million from people who think that it just might. $4.5 million sounds like a bargain for the chance to cure one of the world’s More...