News
1-Sep-2010
At the end of July, for the first time in Israel and only the fifth time in the world, a woman with a heart transplant delivered healthy twins—at the Hadassah Medical Center.
1-Sep-2010
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), under the leadership of its president, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, has donated one million dollars for a Trauma Intensive Care Unit at the Hadassah Medical Center.
1-Sep-2010
Dr. Uzi Izhar, head of the Hadassah Medical Center’s General Thoracic Surgery Unit, together with Dr. Mark Ginsburg, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (New York) have performed Hadassah’s first transplant of a pacemaker into a man’s diaphragm, which enabled him to breathe without the ventilator he had been attached to for a decade.
1-Sep-2010
When during Sabbath dinner, their father’s speech suddenly became garbled and he complained of weakness on his right side, his daughters rushed him to the Hadassah Medical Center’s Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine, where Hadassah’s cutting-edge clot-bursting procedure saved his life, leaving no neurological damage.
1-Sep-2010
Hadasit, the Hadassah Medical Center’s technology transfer company, has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with Bezalel Labs Ltd., the technology transfer company of Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, to develop and commercialize products based on students' product designs.
1-Sep-2010
Teenagers from Israel’s maximum security juvenile prison brought joy to Hadassah’s young cancer patients when the paper-mâché lion sculpture they built was delivered to its new home in Hadassah Hospital’s Dyna and Fala Weinstock Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology. When the 14-18-year-old prison inmates were told about this Department, they embraced the art project, understanding that it was an opportunity for them to do something positive.
1-Sep-2010
More newborns are leaving the Hadassah Medical Center in a car seat, thanks to a cooperative project between Hadassah, a private taxi company, “Hadassah Taxis,” and Beterem, the National Center for Child Safety and Health. The idea for this collaboration was triggered by the results of a three-week survey conducted by Beterem and Hadassah which revealed that 5 out of 56 mothers were taking their babies home without a safety seat. Beterem reports that car seats decrease accident deaths among babies by 71 percent.
1-Sep-2010
Mary Stuchbery, the “Hadassah Connection” in New Zealand for decades, was a successful business person and philanthropist who led annual tours to Israel, beginning in 1947, supporting Israel’s economy and promoting good will.
29-Jul-2010
Hadassah, Komen for the Cure, and the municipality of Jerusalem present the first-ever Israel Race for the Cure®--a highlight of the October 25-29 Israel Mission Delegation to help ignite the breast cancer movement in Israel.
19-Jul-2010
For the first time in Israel, two robotic, laparoscopic hysterectomies were performed by a Hadassah Medical Center surgeon in June while being broadcast live to the Tannenbaum Hall at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem, where gynecologists from all over the country were watching.