COVID-19 laid bare a terrible truth that no other public health emergency has ever done, but one hospital is defying the odds. Read more
Finding a cure for MS is considered the Holy Grail of medicine. That search took a step closer thanks to exciting developments reported from Hadassah Hospital earlier this month. Read more
Hadassah-trained medico, Rani Haj Yahya, arrived in Australia in January 2020 just before the coronavirus pandemic struck. He will return after completing advanced training in the Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. His visit follows a similar route to the one travelled by previous Hadassah Fellows. 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
Oramed Pharmaceuticals’ novel technology for oral delivery of medication, developed at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, has been used to create an oral COVID-19 vaccine, which will be tested for the first time in Israel. Read more
The first 12 graduates of the Achotenu program at the Henrietta Szold Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing were honoured at a ceremony on June 23. Read more
Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem physician Marc Gotkine was enjoying an evening meal with his family in the backyard of their country home 45 minutes south of Jerusalem. A message pinged on his son Asaf’s phone, alerting Asaf that his 15-year-old neighbour, Jonathan, was having a severe asthma attack. Read more
Prof Simcha Yagel, director of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, has received the elite Ian Donald Gold Medal from The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG). This is the first time an Israeli has won this prestigious gold medal. Read more
Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem cardiologist Yitzhak Biton is determined to help family physicians learn to identify and treat their patients’ irregular heartbeats before the condition becomes dangerous. Read more
Poised to begin caring for premature babies to geriatric patients, 20 new nurses joined the staff at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem last week. Read more
The ceasefire was still tentative when the mom from Gaza arrived at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem with her small and sickly infant. There was something wrong with her heart, the doctors in Gaza had told the mother. Read more
“Many of the hospital staff treating me used to be my patients. Now my life is in their hands,” relates Hadassah Medical Organization social worker Tali Rosen. Since Rosen’s job as a Hadassah social worker was a challenging one, she waved away the initial tiredness and aching bones she experienced. When repeated infections became more than a nuisance, she had herself tested. Rosen was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cancer within the spongy bone marrow. Read more
In May Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin visited the recently rebuilt Cerebral Catheterization Unit, pioneered 20 years ago, at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem. Read more
A bleacher in a Jerusalem synagogue’s prayer hall under renovation collapsed on Sunday, killing two people and injuring 184, most of them teenagers. The Hadassah Medical Organization had previously witnessed this type of mass influx of people with similar injuries only after large terror attacks, says Senior Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem Orthopedist Dr Josh Schroeder. Read more
Randa Aweis, a 58-year-old Christian Arab, has been treated at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem for nine years. Her need for a kidney transplant had become urgent. When Yigal Yehoshua died from his injuries after a mob threw rocks at him as he headed home from a Torah-dedication ceremony in Lod last week, his family consented to donate his kidney. Read more
Dr Shaden Salameh-Youssef is the director of the Emergency Medicine Department at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus and the first Arab woman to head an ER in Israel. She is convinced that medical professionals can serve as an example and inspire all of society to come together. Read more
We are pleased to share with you Hadassah International’s second Annual Report/Year In Review, available in digital format, entitled “Hadassah International – Together We Live”. Read more
Hadassah International and Hadassah Medical Organisation (HMO) have confirmed a joint collaboration between the Argentinian Government and HMO in Jerusalem, aimed at providing Argentina with the help it needs to prevent COVID-19 from spreading out of control. Read more
Dr. Tamar Elram couldn’t have predicted the task she faced during the past year: In the midst of a global pandemic, she was charged with ensuring that Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus would remain free of COVID-19. Three lockdowns later. Here’s how she rose up to overcome some of the toughest challenges. Read more
In a year of anxiety and stress globally and in our own community, 2020 was a year in which Hadassah Australia reaffirmed its commitment to support the Hadassah Medical Organization in its vision to shape the future of Jerusalem, Israel and the global community. Read more
Not every investment pays a dividend. Here is one that does. A wonderful journey for individual students and a huge bonus for Israel’s health system. Read more
Two senior ICU nurses from Hadassah Hospital have been helping healthcare workers in Gaza after a desperate plea from Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Read more
Ever since the very early days of the pandemic, there have been claims about masks that can kill the COVID-19 virus. Most claims have been debunked, but a collaborative effort involving Hadassah has resulted in the ‘holy grail’ - patented technology that has been proven to be 99.99 percent effective in killing the coronavirus. Read more
There is a reason that Hadassah is responsible for more than 50% of all hospital-based research in Israel. It comes from a long history of advocacy where doctors are encouraged to bring their bedside experience to the research laboratory. Read more
Even progressive societies place barriers in the way of women’s empowerment. However, some societies are truly liberating. One of them is Hadassah Hospital where equality is not an aspiration but a lived reality. Just ask Dr Tamar Elram. Read more
Australia can take credit for two great initiatives that have left an indelible mark on Israel, but only one was fit-for-purpose from day one. Read more
Israel’s BrainWatch Tech is working on prototype of device that will automatically measure and record pupillary reactions to light in patients with severe brain injury. Read more