VERDI project launches
Today we launch VERDI, a project that prioritizes women and children in the research on new coronavirus variants Clalit Research Institute and Rabin Medical Center are contributing to VERDI, a new European…
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Largest real-world study of third dose of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
Largest real-world study of third (“booster”) dose of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against severe illness published by Israel’s Clalit Research Institute in The Lancet. Major study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Harvard…
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in adolescents
Largest real-world study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in Adolescents published by Israel’s Clalit Research Institute in The New England Journal of Medicine. Major study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Harvard University,…
Largest real-world study of COVID-19 vaccine safety published by Israel’s Clalit Research Institute in The New England Journal of Medicine
Major study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Harvard University, examined data on over 2 million people in Israel. Study compared rates of 25 adverse events between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, and…
Toward Better Medicine
Gift to propel precision medicine research, training at Harvard Medical School, Clalit Research Institute By EKATERINA PESHEVA Why does SARS-CoV-2 shapeshift wildly from one person to the next, causing barely a sniffle…
Clalit Research Institute Publishes Updated Results on Coronavirus Vaccination Effectiveness in The New England Journal of Medicine
Study of 1.4 Million patients demonstrates high vaccine effectiveness of 95-96% 7 days following second Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dose. Vaccine also effective in patients suffering from Multiple Chronic Illnesses, though higher residual risk…
First large-scale peer-reviewed study of real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine by Israel’s Clalit Research Institute published in The New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday, February 25, 2021 Major study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Harvard University, examined data on 600,000 vaccinated individuals in Israel, along with 600,000 matched unvaccinated controls.Two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine…
Event: Symposium on Big Data in Healthcare – Rehovot, Israel
Symposium on Big Data in Healthcare, hosted by the Weizmann Institute of Science in collaboration with Nature Medicine Rehovot, Israel, 2019 Topic presented: Presentation: Transforming healthcare with big data and AI: When…
Better outcomes for participants in “Managing Diabetes During Ramadan Conversation Map” community program
A recent study by the Clalit Research Institute, published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, showed that among Muslim patients with type 2 diabetes who fast during the month of Ramadan,…
Cardiovascular disease prediction models
Clalit Research Institute used an algorithm developed by Zebra Medical Vision capable of extracting useful biomarkers from chest CTs to augment existing cardiovascular disease prediction models in a way that would allow…