Pharmaceuticals

East Jerusalem pharmacy student indicted for plotting mass-casualty attack using poison

Prosecutors accused a pharmacy student from Beit Hanina of preparing terrorist attacks involving lethal poisons and explosive devices, allegedly intended to cause mass casualties.

Collection of glass vials with medicines (illustrative)
Boxes of medication by German pharmaceuticals company Ratiopharm and Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva stand next to each other at a pharmacy.

Turkey probes Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva over claims it blocked rivals in drug market

Medications. Ilustrative.

Israeli PolyPid signs $320 million deal to sell drug preventing surgical infections in US, Canada

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Europe, Israel, and the medical record of a nation - opinion


Israeli pharmacist suspected of replacing medicine with baking soda

Once it was discovered that the pharmacist had been emptying capsules and replacing their contents, the health fund decided to report the pharmacist to the Health Ministry.

Pills

In shadow of COVID-19, 77% of new pharmacists in 2019 are women

The release of data came following Pharmacists' Day in Israel, celebrating the thousands of pharmacists currently at the forefront in the fight against coronavirus.

Female Israeli pharmacists.

Ethics panel clears UK pharmacist blamed ‘Zionists’ for London fire

Dozens of people died in the 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower, low-rent housing complex in London.

A pharmacy worker during the COVID-19 outbreak

Edelstein announces 50% price cut for medical cannabis til end of 2020

In addition to helping patients' financial burden, the pilot also works to ensure a steadier supply of medical cannabis grown in Israel, ruling that only participating companies are allowed to export

CANTEK-brand medical cannabis in at their indoor growing facility in Mavki'im, in southern Israel.

Israeli pharma pioneer introduces TaffiX antiviral nose-powder

Megiddo, an established innovator in the field of orphan drugs and life-sciences, intends to offer greater protection from all viruses while humanity works on a COVID-19 vaccination

Taffix is a powder-based nasal medical treatment meant to kill most viruses

Israeli company achieves success in possible cannabis treatment

The idea behind the innovative research is to use cannabinoids in the form of aerosol that can be applied on the patient's skin.

Cannabis plants grown in the Hortica lab

Venture capitalists find more to Israel than Zionism

While he describes life in the US as “living with gold handcuffs,” Roshwalb isn’t painting a rosy picture of his life in Zion either. “Israel is expensive,” he admits.

aMoon MD Managing Director Gur Roshwalb

Australian firm to purchase and export synthetic cannabinoid from Israel

Cannatrek will trial Nextage's synthetic CBN, and providing it meets demand, the two will enter a more permanent agreement in the future.

Cannabis plants grown in the Hortica lab

Israel makes history, launches DIDO III satellite into space

The satellite is carrying a tiny laboratory in which four medical scientific experiments to test drug resistance will be conducted under conditions of micro-gravity.

A satellite

Pharmaceutical residuals found polluting marine life on Israel's coasts

Unlike other pollutants, pharmaceuticals, which are not fully metabolized in the body, are designed to affect biological systems in even very small amounts.

Prof. Noa Shenkar sampling ascidians.