Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy after discovering ‘Jewish gene’

Published on May 14, 2013

Actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after discovering that she had the breast cancer gene common to Ashkenazi Jewish women.

Shimon Peres well after minor surgery

Published on May 11, 2012

Israeli President Shimon Peres successfully underwent a hernia operation in Tel Aviv on Friday, his office said in a statement.

‘Dr. Schnoz’ cancels plans for second Jewish nose video

Published on April 12, 2012

A Jewish plastic surgeon in Miami has dropped his plans for a contest to produce another music video about Jewish noses.

Smelling a simcha: Surgeon pushing marriage with grants for nose jobs

Published on April 5, 2012

A Jewish plastic surgeon in Miami has offered scholarships to Orthodox Jewish singles for nose jobs to help them land a spouse.

Israeli injured in New Delhi attack stable following surgery

Published on February 14, 2012

The Israeli diplomat's wife wounded in a car bomb attack in New Delhi is in stable condition following surgery to remove shrapnel.

Gilad Shalit undergoes surgery to repair abduction injuries

Published on November 4, 2011

Gilad Shalit has undergone surgery to repair wounds from his 2006 abduction.

Pollard recovering after surgery

Published on August 3, 2011

Jonathan Pollard is recovering after successful surgery.

Jonathan Pollard has “urgent” surgery

Published on August 2, 2011

Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard was taken to a civilian hospital to undergo surgery.

Evidence Mounts in favor of Weight Loss Surgery

By Albert Fuchs, M.D.
Published on February 25, 2011

Joys of growing up in Communist Soviet Union, and other tales of my Family.

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 16, 2011

Surgery Prompts Examination of Jewish Concept of Soul

By Merissa Nathan Gerson
Published on March 16, 2010

Surgery is wrong. This was what I convinced myself over a two-year stint of excessive holistic health care. Thanks to an imbalanced reliance on acupuncture, I neglected a herniated disc until it ruptured somewhere between Washington, D.C., and Salvador, Brazil. When I found out I needed surgery, I was forced to evaluate what, exactly, I saw wrong with cutting a human open and realigning her interior.

UCLA’s new hospital takes technology to new frontiers

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on June 26, 2008

During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw -- just like a football commentator -- on images displayed on a screen.

Jewish women change their destinies by testing for genetic mutation

By Julie G Fax
Published on March 27, 2008

While within the general population about 5 percent of cancers can be attributed to a hereditary syndrome, in the Jewish community, that number is closer to 30 percent. The good news is that knowledge about how the mutation causes cancer is opening scientific doors to more effective, targeted treatment for those already diagnosed. And people who have the genetic mutation can take preventative measures to drastically reduce their breast and ovarian cancer risk.

Surgery Offers Hope to Dystonia Victims

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on June 9, 2005

By the time he had reached the fourth grade, Josh's dystonia caused his right hand to involuntarily clench into a fist so tight that he could only open it by force. His feet turned inward, requiring him to wear braces. The symptoms had forced Josh to quit his baseball and basketball teams after six years of playing, leaving him depressed and angry.

Laser Heart Surgery

By Orit Arfa
Published on May 26, 2005

My only decent pair of glasses broke en route from Los Angeles to Israel, and I took it as a sign -- it was time to for corrective laser surgery, a.k.a. LASIK.

"Make sure on the day of surgery someone comes with you," the Israeli receptionist said to me after I set my appointment.

Great. Who would I call on to come with me? If I lived in Los Angeles, someone in my family would have shepherded me. But I wasn't comfortable asking my family in Israel to escort me.

C’mon Get Happy

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on April 7, 2005

Before she inspired her father's debut film, "Smile" -- a feature about an American teenager who goes abroad to help children with facial deformities -- Katie Kramer was a normal, popular student at Malibu High School.

Breast Cancer Tips Doctors Don’t Share

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on October 14, 2004

Teen Victims Tell Their Stories

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on November 27, 2003

On June 1, 2001, Larisa Azyaski stood with her best friend Irina Nepomnyaschy among a sea of teenagers clamoring to get into the Dolphinarium, a popular Tel Aviv club. Suddenly, the place exploded. A suicide bomber detonated himself, and Azyaski saw only darkness in front of her. She felt like her head was on fire. Disoriented and separated from her friends, she walked past dozens of motionless bodies and managed to escape the chaos

Chains of Support

By Julie G Fax
Published on October 10, 2002

Two days after her radical breast cancer surgery last May, Missy Stein hit that moment where all the emotional and physical implications of her condition came crashing in on her.

But then she remembered Sari Abrams' words.

Joined by a Kidney

By Michael Aushenker
Published on September 5, 2002

On the anniversary of Sept. 11, we offer a pancultural exchange with a happy ending.

Back in November, UP FRONT reported about Patricia Abdullah, a Caucasian woman of Muslim faith who, after leading an unsuccessful search for a type O-positive kidney donor for acquaintance Mike Jones, an African American Christian, ultimately donated her own kidney. The Sept. 25 procedure was performed by Jewish and German surgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital founded by Jews.

A Miracle Worker

By Michael Aushenker
Published on August 29, 2002

Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez are twins who were born conjoined at the cranium. Headline-makers since arriving at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital in Westwood, the twins were separated in a nearly 23-hour surgery on Aug. 6.

Jewish Law and RU-486

By Francesca Lunzer Kritz
Published on October 26, 2000

How do Jews and how does Judaism view the recent approval of Mifeprex, a drug combination that can replace surgical abortion in many women?

Dear Deborah

By Deborah Berger
Published on May 7, 1998

Dear Deborah.