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		<title>Bone marrow donor sought for girl with leukemia</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/20/bone-marrow-donor-sought-for-girl-with-leukemia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich  www.JPost.com
The volunteer organization Ezer Mizion is holding a drive on Wednesday for blood samples to find a compatible donor for a six-year-old Kfar Saba girl named Amit, who has leukemia.
People between 18 and 50 years old and in good health who have never donated a sample to any bone marrow registry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AL-QAEDA MEMBERS STRUCK DOWN BY THE BLACK PLAGUE</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/19/al-qaeda-members-struck-down-by-the-black-plague/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/19/al-qaeda-members-struck-down-by-the-black-plague/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alex West
www.TheSun.co.uk
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. 
The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazan baby&#8217;s life saved by Israel&#8217;s Wolfson heart surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/09/gazan-babys-life-saved-by-israels-wolfson-heart-surgery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informational]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich The Jerusalem Post 
The war in Gaza has not slowed down the work of Save a Child&#8217;s Heart (SACH), the voluntary organization based at Holon&#8217;s Wolfson Medical Center that has provided free cardiac surgery to over 600 Palestinians and nearly 2,000 others from around the world. 
A three-week-old baby named Jafar from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dolphin Therapy for Children with Downs, Autism, CP, etc.</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/05/08/dolphin-therapy-for-sick-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/05/08/dolphin-therapy-for-sick-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Willem Dercksen, The Jerusalem Post  
Five-year-old Philipp, who has Down&#8217;s syndrome, is floating in the water next to a female dolphin and her newborn calf. Gone is his usual impatience. He gently caresses the mother&#8217;s back. The mother takes care that her calf is out of his reach. 
It is Philipp&#8217;s second week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Israeli Technology Freezes Lumps and Tumors</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/04/29/cool-israeli-technology-freezes-lumps-and-tumors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/04/29/cool-israeli-technology-freezes-lumps-and-tumors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-04 Levitt Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart Winer, www.Israel21c.com
A new development that will one day enable the removal of breast lumps and tumors with a device that is no more invasive than a needle prick is very cool. Literally. 
Israel&#8217;s Arbel Medical hopes that its IceSense technology will pave the way for simple cryotherapy, a method of surgery that uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8211;Through The Nose</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/02/18/treating-alzheimers-through-the-nose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/02/18/treating-alzheimers-through-the-nose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-03 Levitt Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicky Blackburn, www.Israel21c.com
For Prof. Beka Solomon it was obvious. If it isn&#8217;t possible to send drugs to the brain to treat Alzheimer&#8217;s disease the normal way because of the blood-brain barrier that prevents drugs from moving from the blood stream into the brain, then send them through the nose instead.
Solomon, of the Molecular Microbiology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Concerns As China Fills U.S. Medicine Chest</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/12/14/security-concerns-as-china-fills-us-medicine-chest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/12/14/security-concerns-as-china-fills-us-medicine-chest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers
BEIJING — The medicine cabinet in the average U.S. home is filling with drugs made in China , and some experts say that could be a prescription for trouble.
China&#8217;s booming pharmaceutical industry has doubled exports to the United States in the past five years, undercutting competitors and making American consumers reliant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key to Cinnamon Anti-Viral Extract Found in the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/10/24/key-to-cinnamon-anti-viral-extract-found-in-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/10/24/key-to-cinnamon-anti-viral-extract-found-in-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karin Kloosterman, www.Israel21c.com
For most of his professional life, Tel Aviv University professor Michael Ovadia focused on snakes and the medicinal properties of their venom. But seven years ago, after meditating on a biblical passage, Ovadia&#8217;s career focus began to take a twist&#8230; a cinnamon twist to be exact.
Today the spiritual scientist from TAU&#8217;s Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arterial Disease Sufferers May Have New Option With Israel&#8217;s PerAssist</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/10/20/arterial-disease-sufferers-may-have-new-option-with-israels-perassist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/10/20/arterial-disease-sufferers-may-have-new-option-with-israels-perassist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicky Blackburn, www.Israel21c.com
The best thing to do if you suffer peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a chronic condition that happens when a plaque blockage occurs in a peripheral artery in the legs or pelvis, is to walk. Walk, and walk, and walk. The act of walking enlarges and expands the small blood vessels around the [...]]]></description>
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