Pollard recovering after surgery
Jewish Journal
August 3, 2011
Jonathan Pollard is recovering after successful surgery.
Category
surgery
Jonathan Pollard has “urgent” surgery
Jewish Journal
August 2, 2011
Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard was taken to a civilian hospital to undergo surgery.
Surgery Prompts Examination of Jewish Concept of Soul
Merissa Nathan Gerson
March 16, 2010
Surgery is wrong. This was what I convinced myself over a two-year stint of excessive holistic health care. Thanks to an imbalanced reliance on acupuncture, I neglected a herniated disc until it ruptured somewhere between Washington, D.C., and Salvador, Brazil. When I found out I needed surgery, I was forced to evaluate what, exactly, I saw wrong with cutting a human open and realigning her interior.
UCLA’s new hospital takes technology to new frontiers
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
June 26, 2008
During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw — just like a football commentator — on images displayed on a screen.
Jewish women change their destinies by testing for genetic mutation
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
March 27, 2008
While within the general population about 5 percent of cancers can be attributed to a hereditary syndrome, in the Jewish community, that number is closer to 30 percent. The good news is that knowledge about how the mutation causes cancer is opening scientific doors to more effective, targeted treatment for those already diagnosed. And people who have the genetic mutation can take preventative measures to drastically reduce their breast and ovarian cancer risk.
Surgery Offers Hope to Dystonia Victims
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
June 9, 2005
By the time he had reached the fourth grade, Josh\’s dystonia caused his right hand to involuntarily clench into a fist so tight that he could only open it by force. His feet turned inward, requiring him to wear braces. The symptoms had forced Josh to quit his baseball and basketball teams after six years of playing, leaving him depressed and angry.
Laser Heart Surgery
Orit Arfa
May 26, 2005
My only decent pair of glasses broke en route from Los Angeles to Israel, and I took it as a sign — it was time to for corrective laser surgery, a.k.a. LASIK.
\”Make sure on the day of surgery someone comes with you,\” the Israeli receptionist said to me after I set my appointment.
Great. Who would I call on to come with me? If I lived in Los Angeles, someone in my family would have shepherded me. But I wasn\’t comfortable asking my family in Israel to escort me.
C’mon Get Happy
Naomi Pfefferman
April 7, 2005
Before she inspired her father\’s debut film, \”Smile\” — a feature about an American teenager who goes abroad to help children with facial deformities — Katie Kramer was a normal, popular student at Malibu High School.
Teen Victims Tell Their Stories
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
November 27, 2003
On June 1, 2001, Larisa Azyaski stood with her best friend Irina Nepomnyaschy among a sea of teenagers clamoring to get into the Dolphinarium, a popular Tel Aviv club. Suddenly, the place exploded. A suicide bomber detonated himself, and Azyaski saw only darkness in front of her. She felt like her head was on fire. Disoriented and separated from her friends, she walked past dozens of motionless bodies and managed to escape the chaos
New Articles
Why Are Presidential Statements About Jews So Weak?
Rafael Medoff
April 26, 2024
UCLA Hillel on Pro-Palestinian Encampment: Jewish Students “Feeling the Intensity of the Situation”
Aaron Bandler
April 26, 2024
USC Cancels Main Commencement Ceremony
Aaron Bandler
April 26, 2024
Chosen Links – Colleges and Passover Edition – April 25, 2024
Boaz Hepner
April 26, 2024
Nova Festival Exhibit in Manhattan Harrowing and Inspiring
Alan Zeitlin
April 26, 2024
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.