The Rockefeller Foundation announced today the approval of a $30, 000 grant to finance research, at Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv, on favism, an anemia produced in certain individuals who eat the fava bean.
Research at the Israel Government hospital has already established that the anemia occouring in certain Israelis shows different characteristics from manifestations of the disease in populations in other parts of the world. The grant will enable further progress to be made on understanding the nature of the blood deficiency. Dr. Chaim Sheba, chief of the hospital’s Department of Medicine, is in charge of the project.
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