Medical News
29-Dec-2008
Persevering to save the life of a young Palestinian boy suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), despite medical protocol to give up hope when a second bone marrow transplantation failed, physicians at the Hadassah Medical Center performed a nonstandard treatment, Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI), and cured his cancer.
15-Dec-2008
Psychologists and neuroscientists at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus have pioneered a novel virtual reality (VR) system called “VirHab” to help stroke victims recover movement of their limbs, to relieve migraine and tension headaches, and to fight chronic pain.
15-Dec-2008
An Arab family in East Jerusalem is most grateful to Hadassah for saving their premature newborn baby, with the help of a state-of-the-art aEEG (Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography) machine, donated by a family from Canada.
15-Dec-2008
A new study led by a Hadassah Medical Center nurse has proven that brushing a ventilated patient's teeth three times a day can radically cut down the rate of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP), a prevalent hospital-born infection which is responsible for thousands of deaths each year.
15-Dec-2008
When a sonogram detected a mass in a 19-week-old fetus, the pregnant woman was referred to the Hadassah Medical Center, where Dr. Michel Nadjari, head of Hadassah’s Ultrasound Department, identified it as a large fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT), a tumor made up of tissues from the three layers of embryonic cells.
15-Dec-2008
Yaacov’s face had been shattered when an onslaught of Qassam rockets fell on Ashkelon, where he and his family were celebrating a happy occasion. He was rushed to Hadassah Hospital where the senior surgeons in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery were waiting for him.
15-Dec-2008
Hundreds of doctors, nurses, speech therapists, social workers, dieticians, and parents of children with chronic diseases traveled to Jerusalem in December to be a part of the Hadassah Medical Center-sponsored Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman 2nd International Congress on Chronic Disorders and Disabilities in Children.
15-Dec-2008
In a poll of the world’s top experts in reproductive biology and medicine, conducted by the prestigious science journal, Nature Medicine, a team of Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center scientists tied for first place in providing the most important and influential advances in reproductive science over the past several years. They received this distinction for their 2006 paper on a previously unknown role played by the immune system in the development of human pregnancies.
24-Nov-2008
As a class project, students in the International Master of Public Health program of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine came up with a plan to treat cholera that has been adopted by the International Red Cross.
24-Nov-2008
A Hadassah dermatologist and her team of researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that causes a particular constellation of symptoms: hyperpigmentation of the legs and lower torso, accompanied by hearing problems and an enlarged liver.
