Israel health basket
Health basket cuts are crippling families - opinion
Behind every child with cancer stands an entire family fighting not only the disease but often the system itself.
Medical hotline to assist patients and professionals reopens in Israel
Health fund psychologists, private therapists to get government grants
Israel yet to name members of new Health Basket committee
‘COVID largely responsible for overwhelming deficits in public health funds’
The deficit of the health funds will actually worsen and is expected to lead to a cash flow problem in the fourth quarter of this year.
Israel could save cancer patients with proton beams in new breakthrough
Experimental devices operated by Hadassah experts will save people from having to travel abroad for less-efficient, less-safe, and more expensive devices.
These foods can lift your mood when you're depressed
Food has a significant impact on our happiness, and we don't just mean emotionally eating carbs and junk food. So what foods can take us out of depression straight into the warm embrace of happiness?
New ‘health basket committee' to add NIS 550 million of tech and services
The new committee chairwoman, Prof. Dina Ben-Yehuda, is the first woman in the role since the mid-1990s.
Drug for rare immune system disease to be considered for health basket
Eosinophilic esophagitis can cause irreversible damage to esophageal tissue.
Treatments for COVID-risk patients at center of health basket discussions
Both heart and lung treatments are facing considerations for entry into the 2021 health basket, with patients considered at risk for the coronavirus.
New treatment for rheumatoid arthritis helps reach remission
The treatment has been included in the national health basket services for 2020 and will be available to patients in all the health funds
Health Ministry D-G commits to NIS 500m. 'health basket' addition
Despite ongoing financial instability, director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov said it was imperative that medical treatments are funded.
Clalit strike cancelled
Clalit facilities will function normally.
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135 medical technologies costing NIS 460m. added to health basket
NIS 40m. to include children up to 16 in Health Ministry’s basic dental care program
Health system’s public ombusman presents report against insurers
The ombusman (public complaints commissioner) reported that Clalit Health Services, the largest insurer, incurred the lowest rate of complaints.
