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Hadassah confronts the outbreak of measles

Measles, a disease we have not seen for a long time, has come back. In the past year and a half, Israel has seen over 4,000 cases, says Prof. Allon Moses, director of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Hadassah Hospital.
Terror, Trauma, Transformation

Professor Esti Galili-Weisstub is one of the world’s pre-eminent specialists in the treatment of child mental trauma victims of terror and the head of Hadassah Hospital’s Jerusalem Crisis Intervention Centre – a walk in clinic for children and adolescent victims of mental trauma. This public lecture was recorded in Melbourne in May 2019.
Hadassah surgeons turn 'hopeless' case into medical success story

Baby Ruth was born at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem weighing almost 10 lbs. “Everything about her birth was more magical because she wasn’t supposed to be born,” said Malka.
Cardiac catheterization first of its kind in Israel

For the first time in Israel, a cardiac catheterization was successfully performed this week at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem on a fragile, premature infant weighing just under two pounds (860 grams).