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medicine
EU Parliament committee certifies Israeli pharmaceuticals
A committee of the European Parliament has endorsed measures to simplify the sale of Israeli pharmaceuticals within the European Union.
‘House’ cast gets taste of Israeli medicine
On television Lisa Edelstein, a star of the hit Fox show “House,” and her fellow actors work medical miracles every episode. But at an Israeli hospital she stumbled trying her hand at simulated arthroscopic surgery. “I’m so glad this is not a living person,” she said Wednesday, shifting the controls over a robotic dummy, eyes fixed on a computer screen that revealed her would-be patient’s internal organs. “I think I just mangled its liver.”
Winning Nobel Prizes seems to run in one family’s chemistry — and biology
You\’ve heard of the nuclear family. But how about the deoxyribonucleic family? Thirty-seven years after Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in medicine, his eldest son, Roger, took home this year\’s prize in chemistry.
The Circuit
Long time L.A. drycleaner Barry Gershenson was named one of four national spokespersons for the FabriCare Foundation. Gershenson, a third-generation dry cleaning veteran has more than 40 years experience as owner of Sterling Fine Cleaning in Los Angeles. As a spokesperson for the FabriCare Foundation, Gershenson\’s role will be to educate consumers on the definition of a \”professional\” drycleaner, as well as the overall benefits of dry cleaning.
Eulogies:Irwin M. Weinstein
Irwin M. Weinstein, one of the founders of the National Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and its Los Angeles chapter, died July 21 of a stroke and kidney failure. He was 76.