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
On September 2, 22 students from 16 different countries celebrated their graduation from the International Master of Public Health (IMPH) program at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Read more
Prof Malena Cohen-Cymberknoh, director of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s Pediatric Pulmonology Unit and Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center, has been named by Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration as one of five immigrant “success stories” for 2021. Read more
“Dusk and Dawn” published on September 14th is the title of a Times of Israel blog, where Jorge Diener, executive director of Hadassah International (HI) writes about beginning’s, self-evaluation, repentance, and regret’s while emphasizing that at Hadassah Hospitals lives are being reborn every day, that supporting healing the world through creating connections around the globe with Hadassah International is his mission in life. Read more
Nondiabetic individuals with high blood glucose levels after fasting who contract COVID-19 are at higher risk for developing a serious case of the disease, according to a collaborative study conducted by the Jerusalem College of Technology, Hadassah Medical Organization, Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the Israeli health fund Meuhedet. Read more
In the largest population-based study to evaluate the prevalence of lazy eye in teenagers, a team of Israeli researchers found that among 1½ million teens aged 16½ to 18 years old, one percent had a lazy eye. The prevalence was higher among those with lower socioeconomic status and lower scores on cognitive function tests. Read more
Hadassah Australia’s commitment to assist young Ethiopian-Israelis enter Israel’s health system was ‘front and centre’ with the graduation of the first cohort of twelve Achotenu students in June. [Read more] Read more
As we approach Rosh Hashanah (New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), there has never been a more important time to reach out to family and friends. We wish them l’shana tovah u’metukah, a good and sweet year, and g’mar chatima tovah, to acknowledge the traditional belief that a person’s fate for the coming year is written on Rosh Hashanah and sealed on Yom Kippur. [Read more] Read more
A mother’s fear for her baby took them on a difficult journey from Gaza to the ophthalmology department at Hadassah. It was a journey that no parent wants to take but every parent required to take it is forever grateful. [Read more] Read more
The Ein Kerem and Mt Scopus campuses of Hadassah Hospital have been rated as the best in their class by Israel’s Ministry of Health. [Read more] Read more
Professor Yoram Weiss has taken up the position of Acting Director-General of the Hadassah Medical Center following the resignation of Professor Zeev Rotstein in July. Prof Rotstein successfully steered one of Israel’s most prestigious hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, although his tenure was not without controversy. [Read more] Read more
Australia has gifted Israel many things, but none have been as transformative as the Goshen Project. Just as it introduced the Eucalypt almost a century ago to combat the swamps that plagued then-Palestine, the early childhood initiative has changed the way Israel’s paediatric community is responding to the needs of young families. [Read more] Read more
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that hospitals are more than bricks and mortar. They’re even more than their advanced, life-saving equipment. The truly great hospitals are staffed by people who rise to meet challenges that hospitals in developed countries rarely if ever face. [Read more] Read more
Last July, Hinda Hekelman was too sick to fast on the Jewish holiday of Tishah B’av, commemorating the destruction of the ancient Jewish temples. She was too weak from the ravages of COVID-19... Read more
Israel has just begun administering third doses of the Pfizer vaccine to people over 60 years of age in Israel. On August 2, Reuven Rivlin, former President of Israel, received this booster shot at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem from nurse Hava Gardner. Prof. Yoram Weiss, acting director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organization, and Dr. Inon Buda, deputy director of Hadassah Ein Kerem, accompanied him. Read more
Adults with diabetes whose glucose levels fluctuate over the course of five years have an increased risk of mortality compared with those whose levels remain stable, a Hadassah Medical Organization study reveals. Read more
Like many other 21st-century mothers, Gaza resident Nourhan enjoyed recording her baby’s every move. Flipping through the photos on her cell phone, she noticed an unusual white stain in her daughter Mayar’s eye... Read more
Love can happen in the unlikeliest places, even the emergency room at Hadassah Hospital. This was the reality for Leah, an X-ray technician in one of Hadassah’s COVID-19 units, and Elior, who is an officer in the Temple Mount Unit of the Jerusalem District Police. [Read more] 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