Medical News
2-Feb-2010
"Caring heals, but generally is not measured or rewarded in pay-for-performance health care," says Prof. Mayer Brezis, Director of Hadassah Hospital’s Center for Clinical Quality and Safety and a faculty member of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
22-Jan-2010
An Israeli rescue mission, including Hadassah Medical Center specialists, flew to Haiti and set up a field hospital in Port au Prince.
Donate now to Hadassah's relief efforts.
20-Jan-2010
Eli (not his real name) is scarcely aware of what went on. It’s his parents who carry the memories, and the thankfulness that they still have their four-and-a-half-year-old son.
12-Jan-2010
The building’s five underground levels are now completed. You can see the Tower very clearly from every possible angle. Build the future with us!
To watch the progress of the construction LIVE on the Hadassah Medical Center website, click on the link: http://80.179.197.227/view/index.shtml
4-Jan-2010
Thanks to the Hadassah Medical Center’s Dyna and Fala Weinstock Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, endowed by generous donors from the United Kingdom, a 2 1/2-year-old girl from the Former Soviet Union with an eye tumor (retinoblastoma) and a 14-year-old boy from Cyprus have defeated the cancers that were threatening their lives.
4-Jan-2010
Hadassah is well-known for its skill in treating the ailments of Israel’s human patients, but its doctors have also come to the aid of the country’s animal population.
4-Jan-2010
Researchers at the Hadassah Medical Center, together with Dor Yeshorim, The Committee for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, have discovered a genetic mutation that causes children of Ashkenazi Jewish descent to be born with a serious neurological genetic disease called Joubert Syndrome.
7-Dec-2009
Hadassah Medical Center researchers have demonstrated that when Colostrum, the milk produced by cows immediately after calving, is enriched with insulin antibodies, it is an effective treatment for fatty liver disease in mice.
7-Dec-2009
A Phase one clinical trial at the Hadassah Medical Center revealed that ingesting one dose of a new slow-release Metadoxine formula before consuming alcohol lowered the level of blood alcohol, dramatically improved motor and cognitive functions, and decreased the craving for alcohol in the test participants. The formula was developed by Alcobra Ltd., a start-up company of Hadasit, Hadassah’s technology transfer company.
7-Dec-2009
“Peace Through Health: Partnership in Emergency Medicine,” the trilateral cooperative venture involving the Hadassah Medical Center, Augusta Victoria Hospital, East Jerusalem, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, aimed at upgrading Palestinian hospital emergency medicine capabilities, continues to flourish.
