News
4-Aug-2009
Hadassah Cuba sponsored a program in June featuring Israel’s outreach work to enhance Africa’s health care; a historical look at 200 years of Tel Aviv; and an update on research breakthroughs and cutting-edge care at the Hadassah Medical Center. With the aid of the unit’s Scientific Committee, they also sponsored a survey in coordination with a local women’s organization to educate the public about prevention of breast cancer.
4-Aug-2009
A cancer patient expected to live only a few days when his doctors discovered a tumor blocking a pulmonary artery was operated on successfully by a team of Israeli and American surgeons at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem and given a new lease on life.
4-Aug-2009
One Friday morning, a mother of five suddenly experienced a thunderous headache and collapsed. She had a potentially fatal aneurysm, a weakness in a wall of an artery, but thanks to Hadassah’s cutting-edge endovascular catheterization, she is alive and on the road to recovery.
4-Aug-2009
Wearing super-sized saddle shoes and a Rudolf-red nose, Cris, the French-born clown, cheers up Hadassah’s pediatric patients and helps them cope with chemotherapy and countless blood tests. He dreamed of creating a tricycle made with an IV (intravenous) pole that would feature the familiar hospital clown. “That way,” he explains, “we clowns can leave a little of ourselves in the ward after we go home.”
29-Jul-2009
Hadassah Director General Chosen to Address the Topic on International Conference Call Hadassah Medical Organization Director General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef was one of two panelists chosen to participate in a conference call on “Israel’s Universal Healthcare: How Do They Pay For It and How Does It Work.” The call was sponsored by The Israel Project, an “international non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting security, freedom and peace.”
23-Jul-2009
In a Tuesday night, July 21st segment entitled “Stem Cell Strides,” Fox News Television featured Hadassah Medical Center as “the world leader in stem cell research,” noting that Israeli scientists have charged ahead of the world and are making “some potentially serious strides” toward curing diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The Fox News report relates that Israeli scientists are taking pluripotent cells—the building blocks of life—and turning them into brain, retina, heart, and pancreatic cells, which could potentially replace diseased tissue.
16-Jul-2009
Belle Simon, Deputy Coordinator of Hadassah International, is most appreciative to be celebrating the fifth anniversary of her kidney transplant along with her donor, Katie Edelstein, a Hadassah colleague from the state of Washington. “I only wish,” Belle comments, “that others would follow Katie’s courageous lead because there is a tremendous shortage of organs for transplant worldwide.” The Hadassah Medical Center is one of Israel’s major transplantation centers, with a success rate for kidney transplants of 90 to 95 percent.
16-Jul-2009
The Israel Ministry of Health elevated the profession of nursing and enhanced career advancement for nurses with its creation of a new status—“Nurse Expert.”
16-Jul-2009
Visiting the Hadassah Medical Center’s new Jerusalem Biotechnology Park (JBP), Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called it a “pioneer in the marriage of business and science” and “a central element in the making of Jerusalem into a biotechnological center.”
16-Jul-2009
A delegation of five Muslim physicians from Senegal are participating in a joint workshop with Israeli colleagues at Hadassah Medical Center to learn a special circumcision technique that prevents the spread of AIDS.