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Up to three home cooked
meals a day.
A fun-filled activity program,
Companionship with
new friends,
A 24 hour emergency
response system,
A dedicated, caring staff.
Rita Haddow, Lauren Kogan-
Liss, Barbara Nemer and
RoseLynn Schlussel will chair
the 1995 Heritage Ball to bene-
fit Sinai Hospital's digestive
health programs. Planning com-
mittee members include Sinai
Guild president
Sandy
Schwartz and Sinai Health
Care Foundation vice-chair
Leah Snider. The Ball, to be
held Oct. 11, will be hosted by
Connie and James Colman
and Frances and Kenneth
Eisenberg.
Dr. Jesse Krakauer has been
elected as a fellow of the Ameri-
can College of Physicians, the
professional organization of in-
ternists. The honorary title rec-
ognizes achievements in internal
medicine, the specialty of adult
and adolescent medical care.
Dr. Krakauer practices inter-
nal medicine and specializes in
endocrinology, diabetes and me-
tabolism. He is a staff physician
at the Osteoporosis Testing Cen-
ter in Southfield.
Dr. Krakauer completed his
fellowship in the field of en-
docrinology and metabolism at
Henry Ford Hospital in 1991. A
diplomate for the American
Board of Internal Medicine, he
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joined the hematology\ oncology
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ter, specifically the Health Care
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Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Schwartz
holds an academic appointment
as an assistant professor in the
division of hematology and on-
cology in the department of in-
ternal medicine at Wayne State
University. ❑
esearchers at the Hebrew versity-developed tests are
University of Jerusalem reusable and have been shown to
have developed a series of be highly accurate in diagnostic
electronic-based diagnostic testing.
tests that will provide quicker,
The sensors are based on elec-
more reliable and often less-ex- trodes coated with chemicals that
pensive means to determine the react instantly to biological com-
presence of infant jaundice and pounds, such as those which de-
AIDS virus antibodies, as well as termine blood sugar levels, and
the level of sugar in the blood.
bilirubin, the biological factor in
Patents for these amperomet- newborn jaundice. Another sen-
ric immunosensory tests, as they sor is an antigen monolayer elec-
are known, have been registered trode which can sense antibodies,
through the Hebrew University's such as those which react to the
Yissum Research Development AIDS virus.
Co. Rights to the patents and com-
mercialization and marketing of
the tests have been acquired by
Savyon Diagnostics, a subsidiary
of Healthcare Technologies of
Ashdod, a firm listed on the Nas-
daq exchange in the United
States.
Heading the Hebrew Univer-
Early knowledge of the pres-
sity researchers who developed ence of AIDS antibodies can help
the tests is Professor Itamar Will- in preventing the spread ofAIDS
ner of the Institute of Chemistry. to others and in treatment of the
Others involved in the work are infected person. Present methods
Dr. Eugenii Katz and doctoral stu- for AIDS tests take five minutes
dents Azalia Riklin and Ron and do not always constitute final
Blonder, all of whom received the confirmation of the presence of
Kaye Awards for scientific inno- AIDS antibodies.
vation presented at the Hebrew
The new Hebrew University
University's Board of Governors electrode test can serve as an in-
meeting.
expensive quick test giving con-
In contrast to existing dispos- firmed results, which could have
able testing kits, the Hebrew Uni- great significance, particularly in
Present methods are
based on color
differentiations.
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