Archived News
27-Mar-2007
The French Consistoire, an organization of religious Jewish French citizens from various cities, witnessed the medical care at the Hadassah Medical Center in February, as part of a most meaningful trip to Israel.
27-Mar-2007
Hadassah's pediatric emergency room in the Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine was filled with babies and toddlers, suffering from smoke inhalation following a fire at their school. As supporters of the Center for Emergency Medicine, we know you’ll be happy to learn that Hadassah’s pediatricians, nurses, and social workers quickly had things under control. Shortly after the children arrived, they received both the oxygen and the emotional support they needed.
27-Mar-2007
Knowing that research discoveries are the key to improved patient care, Hadassah is creating a Clinical Research Center. Two of its hallmarks will be sophisticated equipment and specialized staff recruited from Israel and abroad. The plan is for the Center to be operational within a year. With research centralized in one physical site, it will be easier to monitor volunteers in clinical trials and facilitate more interaction among research teams.
27-Mar-2007
Prof. Yaakov Naparstek, Chair of Hadassah’s Department of Medicine and a specialist in autoimmune diseases, has discovered an effective treatment for lupus.
27-Mar-2007
A delegation of pediatric cardiologists from the Hadassah Medical Center and two other Hadassah’s physicians have developed a method of extracting DNA samples from very small fragments of brain tumor tissue, which previously were considered too small for analysis. The new procedure, as simple as taking a blood sample, can potentially eliminate the need for invasive biopsies that are now required to examine the molecular structure of tumors and create a treatment protocol.
27-Mar-2007
A team of researchers, under the leadership of Prof. Haim Danenberg of Hadassah’s Heart Institute and Prof. Amnon Brzezinski, head of the Patricia and Russell Fleischman Women’s Health Center, have re-examined the effect of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the heart.
27-Mar-2007
While conventional imaging equipment such as ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) only look at anatomy, molecular imaging equipment like the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) machine can help track underlying mechanisms of disease.
27-Mar-2007
Prof. Eitan Galun, head of Hadassah’s Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, along with his father, Prof. Esra Galun, retired head of the Weizmann Institute’s Plant Science Department, have collaborated in generating transgenic plants for medicinal use.
27-Mar-2007
In 1976, a United States battleship docked in the Israeli port of Haifa to deliver the first rehabilitation pool to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.
27-Mar-2007
When the lights went out in Gaza City, a teenager lit a few candles to light up the room she shared with her younger siblings. Tragically, they all fell asleep and the candles set fire to the sleeping mat beneath them.