Medical News
7-Dec-2009
A six-year-old Ethiopian boy who suffers from AIDS immigrated to Israel with his father and older siblings after his mother died. The Hadassah Medical Center has given him a quality of life he hasn’t experienced in a long time.
7-Dec-2009
Dr. Tamar Sella, a radiology oncologist with a specialty in imaging, is the head of the Breast Imaging Center at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem. A member of a multidisciplinary team of physicians, including oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists, she is dedicated to improving the early diagnosis and clinical care of breast cancer patients, as well as advancing research in this field. As she expresses: “Early diagnosis improves prognosis.”
7-Dec-2009
Researchers at the Hadassah Medical Center have demonstrated that when administered orally for one month to mice, frozen natural extract of the Hoodia Parviflora cactus plant decreases the level of blood sugar and fat in the liver and alleviates symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome for those with fatty liver disease.
7-Dec-2009
Hadassah Medical Center researchers have demonstrated that a quick, noninvasive methacetin breath test (MBT) can accurately predict survival in patients with viral hepatitis, enabling physicians to list high-risk patients earlier for liver transplantation.
7-Dec-2009
Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center has, for the first time in the world, repaired fractured bones by harnessing adult stem cells and platelets from their patients’ blood and bone marrow and injecting them at the fracture site.
7-Dec-2009
The Hadassah Medical Center’s surgeons have successfully performed 39 operations assisted by the da Vinci® robot.
7-Dec-2009
Once the focus of worldwide attention, genetic therapy’s dazzling potential has proven difficult to implement. However, a team at Hadassah is still researching healing through the manipulation of DNA—and they have had some surprising successes.
9-Nov-2009
The Hadassah Medical Center is depending on us to meet our commitments to our fundraising projects: the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, the Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Department, the Radiotherapy Department, the Lithotripter, and the Pediatric Department Renovation.
3-Nov-2009
Making strides in combating Graft-Versus-Host-Disease (GVHD), caused by a patient’s body rejecting a transplant, the Hadassah Medical Center is testing a unique treatment based on inducing immune tolerance with injections of the patients’ own cells.
3-Nov-2009
Until the Hadassah Medical Center launched its campaign in October 2008 to reach potential Arab bone marrow donors and explain the urgency to enroll more people of their ethnicity in its bone marrow registry, only 200 of the more than 60,000 people in Hadassah’s database were from the Arab community. Today, relates Dr. Amal Bishara, head of the project, “there are 2,920 Arab donors in the registry and some have already been good matches for patients!”
