Archived News
6-Jul-2004
"Nothing is more noble than the work of these physicians, who have elicited the height of their humanity,” said Knesset member (Labor) and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem. Peres recently visited both Jewish and Palestinian children in the Bloomberg Mother and Child Center, but the focus of his visit was to study the medical services paid for by Italy’s Tuscany Regional Council through his own Peres Center for Peace.
2-May-2004
On Sunday, May 2nd, Hadassah International volunteers, friends, and families joined together in a truly global fundraising phenomenon: Young Hadassah International’s World Wide Walk. With a kickoff in Auckland, New Zealand and a finish in Los Angeles, events also took place in Australia, Holland, England, and Mexico, raising nearly $100,000 for the pediatric area of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s new Center for Emergency Medicine.
1-May-2004
Dr. Raphael Hofstein, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hadasit, HMO’s research and development arm, has announced the creation of a protocol which utilizes stem cell lines to generate dopaminergic neurons which when injected into the brain of Parkinson's disease
patients will replace damaged cells. This procedure is expected to reduce the disease’s debilitating symptoms. HMO is the second in the world to develop viable stem cell lines that are being used for cutting-edge research.
1-May-2004
Professor Avi Rivkind, head of HMO’s Trauma Unit, has been named Israel’s first Academic Chair in Trauma Medicine. The creation of this Chair marks the elevation of Trauma Medicine to an academic specialty and establishes the excellence of HMO in meeting the challenges of this medical specialty.
1-May-2004
For the first time, Palestinian midwives from four hospitals in East Jerusalem met with their counterparts at Hadassah Hospital for a discussion on the delivery of premature and low-birth-weight infants.
30-Apr-2004
As the enthusiastic voices in many different languages filled the King David Hotel, an onlooker could sense the diversity of the over 250 delegates from 18 countries who came to Jerusalem, March 13-15 for Hadassah International’s Solidarity Conference. After spending 2 emotion-filled days with colleagues who hold a mutual vision for a better world through universal medicine, participants left Jerusalem bolstered by pride in their show of solidarity with Israel and the Hadassah Medical Organization during these difficult times.
4-Mar-2004
A member of the Argentine National Guard, Commander General Hugo Alberto Miranda was troubled by the lack of quality health care for trauma victims in his country. With the help of the Hadassah Medical Organization, he is creating a state-of-the-art trauma unit for his homeland, modeled after the one at HMO.
3-Mar-2004
Hadassah International Medical Relief Association (HIMRA) announces the first winner of its newly created Bernice S.Tannenbaum Award for an International Young Volunteer of Distinction: Dr. Enrique Bassat Orellana, a pediatrician and humanitarian of Barcelona, Spain.
24-Feb-2004
New cutting-edge perspectives and procedures in nursing and a vivid view of a humanitarian Israel and Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) were brought to hundreds of nurses and physicians in Mexico with the first International Nursing Symposium in Monterrey, Mexico. This symposium was sponsored by Hadassah International in conjunction with the Technological Institute of Monterrey and the Fundacion de la Garza.
17-Feb-2004
(February 13, 2004) The world's first computer-assisted, minimally invasive hip replacement has been performed at Hadassah-University Hospital on Jerusalem's Mount Scopus, The Jerusalem Post reported. During the past few days, four Hadassah patients received hip replacements using the technique, which has the benefits of smaller incisions, no cutting of muscles or tendons, optimally accurate preparation and insertion, reduced pain and speedier discharge from the hospital. The first three have already been discharged.
