Medical News
30-Apr-2008
The 2007 international cardiology meeting, which addressed “Innovations in Cardiovascular Interventions, was organized by Prof. Chaim Lotan, head of Hadassah’s Heart Institute, together with Prof. Rafael Beyar of Israel’s Rambam Hospital.
28-Apr-2008
Ayelet, a 14-year-old teenager, used to hold her right hand behind her back or cradled within her left because she was born with two middle fingers fused solidly together; now, however, her fingers appear perfectly normal, thanks to successful surgery performed by Prof. Mordechai Sela, head of the Department of Maxillofacial Rehabilitation at the Hadassah Medical Center.
7-Apr-2008
A 38-year-old Jerusalemite who carries the defective BRCA2 gene is probably the first woman in the world in an advanced state of pregnancy to have had her fetuses screened for the mutation as three-day-old embryos before being deemed healthy for implantation. Presence of the BRCA gene mutation significantly increases a woman’s risks of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
7-Apr-2008
Hadasit, the technology transfer company of the Hadassah Medical Center, Harvard Medical School (HMS) of Boston, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard, for the first time, in an equally owned joint scientific venture, are collaborating to develop a new orally administered treatment for autoimmune diseases. Beginning this month at Hadassah, a Phase I study will test the efficacy and safety of the new combination therapy on healthy individuals.
7-Apr-2008
When a seven-week-old infant was brought to the pediatric emergency room, blue in color and not breathing, Hadassah’s Dr. Ophir Bar-On knew he had no time to lose in dislodging the marble that had slipped into her throat and was choking her.
7-Apr-2008
When a maintenance worker found a package of 50 child-sized blankets in a very remote corner of one of Hadassah Hospital’s buildings, Hadassah’s health professionals decided to launder and deliver them, via Hadassah ambulance, to elderly individuals living alone, so they could cover their legs and keep warm while they were sitting at home.
7-Apr-2008
The Hadassah Medical Center has announced three new top appointments: Dr. Yair Birnbaum, Associate Director General and Director of Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem since 2001, is now head of all Medical Services at the Medical Center; Dr. Yuval Weiss, Deputy Director of Hadassah-Ein Kerem since 2003, is now Director; and Dr. Orly Toren has been named Associate Director of Development and Research in Hadassah’s Nursing Division.
7-Apr-2008
Ella Stadnik and Sandra Gonzales—two mothers of young boys—one whose son was saved thanks to a liver donation from the other’s son upon his death (see January 2008 eBulletin), recently met for the first time and agreed to “go public” about the transplant to raise awareness of the desperate need for organ donation.
7-Apr-2008
Teaching women how to eat wisely and lose weight responsibly is only one goal of a new nutrition group started by the Hadassah Medical Center; the other aim is to bring together Israeli and Arab women, religious and secular, in a comfortable environment where they can get to know one another as they work toward the universally human goal of living a healthier life.
7-Apr-2008
Kivunim (Directions), Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem’s new information center for patients and their families, the first of its type in Israel, is a centralized resource for all information one might need before, during, and after a hospitalization.
