News
13-Feb-2006
The prestigious United States Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has elected Professor Oded Abramsky, M.D., Ph.D. for membership. The Israel S. Wechsler Professor of Neurology and long-time chair of Hadassah’s Department of Neurology, Dr. Abramsky is one of only five new foreign associate members.
13-Feb-2006
To provide women who suffer from debilitating symptoms during menstruation with a comprehensive understanding of their condition and ways to alleviate the distress, Hadassah’s Patricia and Russell Fleischman Woman’s Health Center is offering a new service: a free examination and consultation about alternative treatments to hysterectomy.
13-Feb-2006
David Mordvinstseia was born in Baku, Azerbaijan with a congenital heart defect so severe that doctors said they could not operate. His fingers, toes, and lips looked blue from lack of oxygen and he spent his childhood as an invalid, hardly speaking.
13-Feb-2006
Hadassah’s Professor Raphael Udassin, a pediatric surgeon, recently accompanied Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom to Tunisia, a country without diplomatic relations with Israel, to speak at the World Summit on the Information Society about one of his favorite hobbies: developing computer programs for hospitalized kids. For ten years, Prof. Udassin has done volunteer projects for the Kav-Or computer system, which prepares kids and their parents for surgery and then provides entertainment and enrichment during the child’s recovery.
13-Feb-2006
At the Hadassah Medical Center, researchers are seeking to identify the genes that cause age related macular degeneration (AMD), which typically leads to blindness in the affected eye.
13-Feb-2006
In one out of three patients whose blocked coronary arteries are opened by catheter and stent, vital vessels re-clog within days. Hadassah teams have come up with two alternatives to existing drug therapy for preventing these coronary arteries from re-clogging.
13-Feb-2006
Hadassah researchers are building on earlier studies in which they proved that CRP, an inflammatory protein in the blood, is not only a leading biomarker for cardiovascular disease, but also a cause of thrombosis (blot clot formation). Having created the first live system to monitor the risk of high CRP levels, they are now developing a drug to block CRP and prevent thrombosis.
13-Feb-2006
In Hadassah Hospital’s Coagulation Unit, researchers have developed an innovative technique for testing platelet function in real time and under particular physiological conditions. This includes testing reactions to aspirin. The advantage of this technique is that, contrary to its predecessors, which required a large volume of blood, an experienced technician, and a long examination period, it only requires a minute amount of blood (0.13 ml) and about five minutes.
13-Feb-2006
When Hadassah's Trauma Unit nurse Etti Ben Yaakov isn't busy saving lives or training medics, she volunteers at the Tisch Family Zoo. One of the elephants is about to give birth, having undergone in vitro fertilization. Etti convinced Hadassah hospital to check the elephant's hormone levels so that the veterinarian can better time the complicated delivery. The administration was willing to help with the analyses, but made it clear that the elephant would not be allowed to give birth in the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center!
13-Feb-2006
The Hadassah Medical Organization’s Center of Excellence for Pediatric Metabolic Diseases is highlighted in an article dealing with research on obscure metabolic disorders in the January 2006 issue of Nature Medicine. The magazine is a biomedical research journal devoted to publishing the latest and most exciting advances in biomedical research for scientists and physicians.