Medical News
8-Sep-2008
Physicians at the Hadassah Medical Center successfully transplanted a kidney into a patient who has familial dysautonomia, marking the first time in the world that a kidney transplant has been performed with a positive outcome on a patient with this disease.
8-Sep-2008
Prof. Avi Rivkind, head of the Trauma Unit at the Hadassah Medical Center, together with Dr. Micha Shamir, a senior physician from the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia to treat a senior reporter from Israel’s Yedioth Aharonoth newspaper, who was seriously injured during the fighting there.
8-Sep-2008
To foster collaboration among physicians from different disciplines regarding the impact of chemotherapy and radiotherapy on fertility, Dr. Ariel Revel, senior physician in the Hadassah Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, organized a July conference which was attended by more than 250 physicians--oncologists, hematologists, radiotherapists, psycho-oncologists, and gynecologists/obstetricians from all over the country.
8-Sep-2008
Hadassah International sends warm wishes of congratulations to Dr. Josh Schroeder, Young Hadassah International board member and resident in orthopedic surgery at the Hadassah Medical Center, and his wife, Yaira, on the birth of their daughter, Eliana Hadar, born at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus this summer.
25-Aug-2008
To date, Hadassah International has raised $8.81 million for the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower of Healing, to be dedicated at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem in 2012. With this issue of the eBulletin, we begin a new feature, “Distinguished Donor Profiles.” It is our goal to give you a glimpse into who our Tower donors are and what motivates these generous individuals to support this new citadel of healing.
20-Jun-2008
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sarah Sallon, Director of The Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center (NMRC) at the Hadassah Medical Center, has succeeded in growing a 2,000-year-old date seed, the oldest ever to be germinated. Details of the research appear in the June 13, 2008 issue of Science Magazine in an article entitled “Germination, Genetics, and Growth of an Ancient Date Seed.”
20-Jun-2008
On the heels of success of the Phase I trials, Hadassah Medical Center has embarked on the next set of tests for Oramed Pharmaceuticals’ oral insulin capsule—the world’s first oral insulin treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
20-Jun-2008
Professor Dimitrios Karussis, Senior Neurologist at the Hadassah Medical Center, and Professor Shimon Slavin, former head of Hadassah’s Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit and founder of the International Center for Cell Therapy and Cancer (ICTC) at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, have received the "International Adult Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Treatments Award 2008" from the Worldwide Center for Adult Stem Cell Education (WCASCE).
20-Jun-2008
Prof. Arieh Shalev, Chief of the Hadassah Medical Center’s Psychiatry Department and a leading world expert in post-traumatic stress, is leading groundbreaking research into treatment for Military Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
5-May-2008
An International Heart Failure Symposium was hosted by Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem in November 2007, with the participation of leading specialists in the field of heart failure from Israel and abroad.
