Barely 11% of Ethiopian Jewish students reach university in Israel, compared to 42% of their counterparts in the general population. This worrying statistic is behind a ground-breaking agreement between Hadassah Australia and the United Israel Appeal. Read more
What do a Romanian medical student, a Palestinian child, and a young adult from the Dominican Republic have in common? The Hadassah Medical Center, through its innovative, determined, and resourceful physicians, gave them all back their lives. Read more
Osnat Bublil lost vision at young age, but did not give up studying to become massage therapist; currently works with patients at Hadassah. Read more
A doctor from Hadassah is making his way to Japan after the Israel Health Ministry asked him to oversee the treatment of at least three Israelis said to have tested positive for Coronavirus. Read more
Colorful toucans, zebras, and giraffes form the backdrop for cuddly stuffed animals like monkeys and lions in the new pediatric trauma waiting room at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem. Wooden toys invite to play for younger patients, and a video gaming room with soccer-shaped chairs engages older kids. A library with story-books helps distract the children, while parents prepare drinks in the kitchenette. Read more... Read more
Since she was 12 years old, Nitzan Bernstein had lived with chronic pain. For five days every month, she could not get out of bed. Living in a small town in the north of Israel, Bernstein consulted many doctors, but they waved away her complaints as discomfort from her monthly period, assuming that, as a teenager, she was just exaggerating her level of pain. Nevertheless, the pain got worse. Read more... Read more
For the Ben-Zion* family, retinitis pigmentosa is a fact of life. A genetic disorder that causes loss of peripheral vision and poor night vision, retinitis pigmentosa often leads to blindness. Numerous Ben-Zions inherited the disorder, but family member Ilana,* 39, wanted to make absolutely sure her children would have full eyesight. Read more... Read more
A leading transcatheter heart valve medical device company in China has appointed Prof. Chaim Lotan, immediate past director of the Hadassah Medical Center’s Heart Institute, to its global med-tech advisory board. Read more
The number of children born with serious heart defects is in decline in the US, Europe, and even in most of Israel. Not so in Jerusalem. When most parents are told in the second trimester of pregnancy that their baby will be born with catastrophic heart defects, they decide to terminate the pregnancy. In Jerusalem, because of the religious beliefs of large swaths of the Muslim and Jewish populations, many parents reject abortion, even though it’s legal in such situation. Read more. Read more
She was walking the grounds of an Israeli college when she collapsed. At 24, she was dead. Weeks later, her paternal first cousin, aged 13, died during the night. With two closely related tragedies, Hadassah Medical Center geneticists and physicians joined forces to establish the cause. Using the latest technology, they discovered a genetic mutation that is responsible for a fatal aortic rupture. Read more. Read more
Canonic, a subsidiary of the biotechnology company Evogene Ltd., has announced an agreement with Hadasit, the Hadassah Medical Center’s Technology Transfer Company, to perform pre-clinical studies to support Canonic’s development of anti-inflammatory medical cannabis products. The work will be conducted by the laboratory of Hadassah’s Prof. Reuven Or, where his research team will screen Canonic’s cannabis core collection, using inflammatory in-vitro models. Read more
Hadassah’s rehabilitation department opened on the Mount Scopus campus in 1976. A new facility, also at Mount Scopus, is now under construction, in an initiative led by Hadassah International. “I started my residency in the department in 1995, two years after my aliyah from Russia,” Dr. Isabella Schwartz recounted. “I fell in love with the possibilities of rehab, its ongoing search for new solutions.” Read more Read more
In a recently published article in the prestigious journal Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Hadassah Medical Organization doctors working with Microsoft researchers reported they were often able to diagnose Parkinson’s disease simply from the way people seeking information about the disease typed on their computer and moved their mouse. Read more
PRESS RELEASE: Hadassah Australia condemns the appointment of Yaakov Litzman MK to the position of Health Minister in Israel. Read more
Recently, Dr. Gileles-Hillel, along with pediatric colleagues from Hadassah Dr. Ira Erlichman and Dr. Joel Reiter, authored an article that was published in the Journal of Child Science, which provides an up-to-date summary of recent advances in understanding the pathophysiology of what is called apnea of prematurity (AOP) and what physicians and staff who treat infants with AOP need to know. Read more
A very active, athletic 17-year-old girl arrived at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem complaining of pain in her stomach. She had no idea there was a massive growth in her abdomen that weighed more than six pounds. Read more
The first ‘graduates’ have emerged from a medical accelerator based at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem. Read more
An historic arrangement has been made between Magen David Adom and Hadassah Hospital. A 24-hour Emergency Ambulance Dispatch Center is now based at the Ein Kerem campus. It is reducing waiting times for people living in the vicinity. Read more
Two of Hadassah’s world-renowned doctors and researchers, Prof. Orly Elpeleg, Head of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, and Dr. David Arkadir, Senior Physician in the Department of Neurology and Head of Parkinson’s research, were invited to share their expertise with audiences in both Mexico and Brazil. They proudly introduced both professional medical groups and interested lay audiences in both countries to the Hadassah vision that Genetics will be developing and advancing the future of medicine Read more
The International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD) has honored the Hadassah Medical Center’s pioneering psychiatrist Prof. Bernard Lerer with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. Prof. Lerer, 71, was born in South Africa and moved to Israel as a young physician. He entered the field of psychiatry just after the revolutionary anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs like lithium, chlorpromazine, and imipramine were introduced. Read more
The Hadassah Medical Center’s Molecular Pathology and Diagnostic Tumors Department is the first in the Middle East – and just the third outside of the United States – to conduct the new tumor diagnostic test FoundationOne-CDx (F1CDx) within its own laboratories. F1CDx detects and identifies genetic changes in cancerous tumors. Looking at 324 genes within a single sample of a patient’s tissue, the test identifies substitutions, insertions, mutations, and alterations. Read more
More than 20 million Americans suffer from thyroid disease, but biopsies to determine if they have thyroid cancer are not definitive in at least a third of the cases. To err on the safe side, the thyroid gland or half of it is often removed, leaving some of the patients pill-dependent for the rest of their lives. Hadassah physician-researchers have developed a method to increase biopsy accuracy, according to an article published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. Read more
The Ethiopian community in Israel is unique in a number of respects, but one that stands out is how it held fast to its Jewish beliefs despite being isolated from the mainstream Jewish world for millennia. Read more
Much has been written about the innovative program at Hadassah Hospital to assist Ethiopian-Israelis achieve their dream of a career in nursing. Less is known about the man whose vision and dedication helped to create the program that is empowering an under-privileged community in Israel. Read more
The shocking reality of sexual abuse and violence in Israel was the theme of Dr Dvora Bauman’s talk to members and friends of Hadassah Australia during her recent visit. Read more
Hadassah International Raises $9M for Rehabilitation Center at Mount Scopus Hospital Read more