Israel’s Health ministry has just approved an expansion of the “Health Basket,” treatments and drugs covered by Israel’s four HMOs for 2023. The expansion included more than 120 medications and technologies at a cost of nearly NIS 650 million. The task of deciding...
The “C” word stirs up difficult emotions and associations. Pain, fear, hopelessness. Despair. Despite all the medical advances that have made certain cancers treatable, manageable and even curable, it is a serious, formidable disease with a risk of serious and...
Twelve years ago, on an otherwise normal, hot July day in Israel, I received a diagnosis of breast cancer. As a child of a holocaust survivor with a miraculous story of survival, I learned early to notice connections. (“Try not to miss the miracles,” my mother would...