Archived News
13-Feb-2006
Sandy Martin, Alberta, Canada’s first National President of Hadassah-WIZO Canada in the organization’s 88-year history, was elected to a three-year term at its triennial convention this fall. Mrs. Martin served as National Vice-President for the past three years and has been active in Hadassah-WIZO Canada for 25 years.
13-Feb-2006
A prestigious Germany Security Delegation from Frankfurt toured the Hadassah Medical Center this past fall. Visiting the Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine and the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center, the delegation, sponsored by the Ministry of Health and organized by Dr. Leo Latasch, a Senior Emergency Room physician, included...
13-Feb-2006
With the two goals of introducing Hadassah International and the Hadassah Medical Organization to the Jewish community in Panama and identifying individuals who would be interested in supporting our Medical Center, Hadassah Mexico Director Ethel Fainstein arranged for a lecture by Dr. Yair Birnbaum, HMO Associate Director General. His presentation was entitled "Hadassah as a Bridge to Peace: New Medical Breakthroughs." The lecture was jointly sponsored by Hadassah International and the umbrella group of Jewish organizations, El Consejo Central Comunitario Hebreo.
13-Feb-2006
The Israel Security Commission has granted Hadasit, the Hadassah Medical Organization’s research and development arm, a permit to go public. A daughter company entitled “Hadasit Bio Holding LTD” (HBL) has been established for this purpose.
This achievement by Hadasit represents the first pure bio-technology initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Hadasit is also the first technology transfer company in Israel to go public.
Hadasit promotes and commercializes HMO’s intellectual property including research and development capabilities aimed at finding solutions to problems faced by modern medicine.
This achievement by Hadasit represents the first pure bio-technology initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Hadasit is also the first technology transfer company in Israel to go public.
Hadasit promotes and commercializes HMO’s intellectual property including research and development capabilities aimed at finding solutions to problems faced by modern medicine.
13-Feb-2006
Professors Shlomo Maayan, head of Hadassah's AIDS Center, and Dan Engelhard, Head of the Department of Pediatrics at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem, traveled to Northern Ethiopia to check on their collaborative venture with Ethiopian colleagues in treating AIDS.
13-Feb-2006
On his first trip to Ethiopia not long ago, Prof. Dan Englehard was invited to visit an orphanage where 350 children were sick with AIDS.
"It was heartbreaking," he said. "At Hadassah Hospital, we haven't lost a child in a decade and all of these children were dying." Now that drugs are available through America's Center for Disease Control (CDC) under the special Presidential appropriations, Prof. Engelhard was able to initiate a healing program for these orphans.
"It was heartbreaking," he said. "At Hadassah Hospital, we haven't lost a child in a decade and all of these children were dying." Now that drugs are available through America's Center for Disease Control (CDC) under the special Presidential appropriations, Prof. Engelhard was able to initiate a healing program for these orphans.
13-Feb-2006
Maia, an immigrant child from Russia, was diagnosed with a hereditary neurological movement disorder. Characterized by involuntary muscle contractions that force certain parts of the body into abnormal, sometimes painful, movements or postures, the disease, called “dystonia,” can affect any part of the body including the arms and legs, trunk, neck, eyelids, face or vocal cords.
13-Feb-2006
Last year, Ambat and Nagdo Eyob, immigrants from the remote Quara district of northwest Ethiopia, were delighted to be expecting their ninth child. In her sixth month, Ambat began to hemorrhage and she was rushed to Hadassah Hospital. Hadassah physicians saved her life and delivered her baby by Caesarian section.
13-Feb-2006
The prestigious United States Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has elected Professor Oded Abramsky, M.D., Ph.D. for membership. The Israel S. Wechsler Professor of Neurology and long-time chair of Hadassah’s Department of Neurology, Dr. Abramsky is one of only five new foreign associate members.
13-Feb-2006
To provide women who suffer from debilitating symptoms during menstruation with a comprehensive understanding of their condition and ways to alleviate the distress, Hadassah’s Patricia and Russell Fleischman Woman’s Health Center is offering a new service: a free examination and consultation about alternative treatments to hysterectomy.