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The Faculty of Health Sciences is committed to excellence in teaching and training physicians and healthcare professionals, as well as excellence in medical research in all its aspects. The faculty aims to educate its students to view the patient in the broad context of illness and health—considering their family, cultural, and social background—and to improve medical services and the health of the Negev’s residents. The faculty's uniqueness lies in its strong community orientation, which is reflected in its student selection process. This process includes a personal interview for candidates who meet the basic admission criteria. The interview aims to identify candidates with unique qualities, worldviews, and past experiences that align with the faculty’s spirit. The curriculum emphasizes the bio-psycho-social approach and encourages student involvement in community health projects, from their initiation and planning to their implementation in the field.

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Faculty of Health Sciences News

26.02.25

Interestingly, they are also less likely to have orthopedic and animal inflicted injuries than typically developing peers.

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are less likely to have severe injuries than those with ADHD

17.12.24

Climate change is bleaching and killing off vast amounts of the world's coral due to rising sea temperatures. Dr. Benyamin Rosental and his colleagues have proposed an out of the box potential solution...

Could stem sells transplants save the world's corals?

16.12.24

Prof. (Emeritus) Margalit, Director of the International School of Medicine, was a key figure in establishing the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. He received the prize in the Science and Medicine category.

Bonei Zion Prize Awarded to Prof. Carmi z. Margalit

22.08.24

The synthesis of new derivatives of these metabolites increases the probability of finding new drugs for many therapeutic purposes.

BGU researchers and colleagues recommend a new type of “antibiotic” generated from the long pepper

19.08.24

Scientists recognize that not all fat is the same, and inflammation in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is a key indicator of cardiometabolic risk. However, measuring VAT inflammation currently requires invasive surgery. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University have proposed a non-invasive alternative using circulating miRNAs, similar to a liquid biopsy.

BGU researchers can differentiate high versus low VAT inflammation noninvasively

10.04.24

A nanosized polymer, developed by a research team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, can selectively deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to blood vessels that feed tumors and metastases, and has emerged as an effective treatment for advanced cancer.

A targeted polymer to treat colorectal cancer liver metastases