News
30-Oct-2008
Lieb Woolf, the grandfather of Harold Woolf, President of Hadassah Australia in Sydney, was born in Palestine in 1864, and was instrumental in the creation of a hospital, later run by Hadassah!
30-Oct-2008
During this difficult time of economic uncertainty and turmoil in the stock markets, it was uplifting for me to travel to France and Switzerland and meet so many dedicated and generous-minded people devoted to the Hadassah Medical Organization. In Paris, I attended the gala opening of the musical, “Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob,” where over 3,700 people filled the auditorium and raised 200,000 euros for Hadassah. How inspiring and impressive it was to witness the tremendous visibility that Hadassah France achieved for our medical center!
30-Oct-2008
Over 20 runners joined a city-wide 10-kilometer Kö-Lauf (marathon) in Düsseldorf, Germany to raise awareness for the Hadassah Medical Center.
29-Oct-2008
The Hadassah Medical Center’s Neuro-Fetal Clinic has acquired a state-of-the-art diagnostic machine which enables physicians to monitor brain activity in newborns more effectively.
29-Oct-2008
The Hadassah Medical Center’s Heart Institute has performed its first Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Intervention (TAVI), a new nonsurgical procedure to treat aortic stenosis (AS), a severe degenerative disease which causes the narrowing of the aortic valve.
29-Oct-2008
Dr. Malena Cohen-Cymberknoh was one of three young researchers to receive the “Young Investigator Award” at the 31st European Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Prague for her work on intravenous methylprednisolone pulse therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis.
29-Oct-2008
Prof. Dan Engelhard, head of Pediatrics at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem, flew to Azerbaijan to care for the severely ill two-year-old son of diplomats serving in the Israeli embassy there.
29-Oct-2008
During the Jewish holiday season, Hadassah staff greeted patients arriving at the Medical Center with a gift of apple dipped in honey, a traditional food to convey wishes for a sweet new year.
29-Oct-2008
Hadassah International is helping to fund the upgrade and expansion of Hadassah’s Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Department. The following is one story of healing from the Blood Bank: As a recent immigrant to Israel, a Russian mother had no support network to turn to when she was diagnosed with lymphoma and needed blood for her bone marrow transplant.
24-Oct-2008
The Hadassah Medical Center is once again hosting The Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman International Congress on Chronic Disorders and Disabilities in Children, which will bring together multidisciplinary health professionals from all over the world to discuss how to enhance the care of chronically ill children.