Medical News
30-Mar-2009
Dr. Shmuel Harris joined Hadassah Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry shortly after he immigrated to Israel from Melbourne, Australia. Psychiatry is the best fit for him, Dr. Harris says, because “I like listening to people, getting involved with them, and engaged in trying to help them.”
30-Mar-2009
A Hadassah Medical Center team has embarked on a study to determine whether children’s pain is being managed adequately once the children leave the hospital.
30-Mar-2009
In recent years, Hadassah has become increasingly green, initiating programs on and around its hospital campuses that protect and enhance the environment.
30-Mar-2009
Thanks to a partnership between the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Dental Medicine and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), 3,500 underprivileged children in 24 Israeli cities have received free dental care.
30-Mar-2009
Hadassah Medical Center physicians are looking toward molecular medicine to decipher the causes and create the cures for cancer. By examining the structure and behavior of malfunctioning human cells as they progress through the disease process, they come closer to bringing a cure to the clinical setting.
30-Mar-2009
Two-year-old Hadassah Der'I was saved by the Hadassah Medical Center’s astute diagnosticians, who discovered that she had a severe heart disease in addition to the problems in her lungs.
19-Feb-2009
Hadassah-Hebrew University Dental Student Tamar Ziskind experienced another type of crown when she represented her homeland in the Miss World competition as Miss Israel. While in Johannesburg for the event, she enjoyed having the opportunity to become friendly with Miss Egypt and Miss Lebanon.
10-Feb-2009
The Hadassah Medical Center is home to one of the world’s two familial dysautonomia (FD) centers, bringing treatment and longer life to patients with this incurable genetic disease, which causes almost every major bodily system to malfunction.
10-Feb-2009
The success of a therapy using adult stem cells to treat multiple sclerosis at Hadassah is encouraging news for those who suffer from MS and other neurological disorders.
10-Feb-2009
Among the ten percent of the Hadassah Medical Center’s physicians who were drafted to serve in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza was Dr. Rotem Quint, a new resident in Internal Medicine, who was helicoptered to Hadassah when he was wounded in the left thigh by sniper fire.
