Ran Reznick

Acute ear infection is the most common illness diagnosed among children here, particularly those up to the age of three. According to estimates, some 400,000 Israeli children require medical treatment for the condition each year.

Senior surgeon at Soroka hospital was jailed for ordering the beating of woman carrying his child

The state prosecutor will indict two doctors from the state-owned Wolfson Medical Center in Holon for malpractice that led to the death of a baby. One, Dr. Oscar Herman, the head of Wolfson's plastic surgery department, has already been summoned to a hearing.

The deputy director-general of the Health Ministry, Dr. Yitzhak Berlovitz, gave the public information in an interview that subsequently turned out to be contradictory to the serious findings of an investigation into the illegal removal of body parts from the Institute of Forensic Medecine at Abu Kabir.

A Health Ministry committee has raised serious questions about the level of medical care in Israel's prisons. In a report submitted last Thursday to Health Ministry director general Boaz Lev, the panel says there are scarcely any specialists employed in Prison Service clinics.

A public panel responsible for reviewing the nation's public health system has recommended that hikes in physicians' salaries and other improved benefits be held in abeyance until a number of conditions are fulfilled.

Several weeks ago, a 54-year-old Tel Aviv resident was rushed to the emergency room at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

These articles on medicine's moral dilemmas do not take a critical approach toward the Israeli reality - or even make any significant reference to that reality

Training dives in the polluted Kishon River near Haifa were not directly responsible for the many incidences of cancer among naval commandos who made the dives, according to data received thus far by the commission of inquiry investigating the issue.

Training dives in the polluted Kishon River near Haifa were not directly responsible for the many incidences of cancer among naval commandos who made the dives, according to data received thus far by the commission of inquiry investigating the issue.

Since she was born, about two and a half years ago, A. has been suffering from severe convulsions and she is under the supervision of the child development clinic in Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot.

Two brothers with the same father were recently born here to two separate women, one the biological mother and the other a surrogate. The biological couple had initially received permission for a surrogate birth, but later the woman became pregnant herself from fertility treatment.

What caused Dr. Yosef Shental, head of Haemek Hospital's urology department, to order Optalgin for a patient last December, despite the fact that the man's allergic sensitivity to the medicine was cited repeatedly in his medical file?