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Hadassah and Rothschild Foundation Embark on Collaborative Neural Research Project
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Dr. Neta Levin of Hadassah?s Department of Neurology and Dr. Sylvie Chokron of the Fondation Ophthalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild in Paris, France are embarking on a joint research project to study how the visual cortex responds to different types of injuries, reorganizing itself to compensate for loss in visual function. [Full Story]
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Middle East Countries Collaborate on Infertility Survey
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Fertility experts from Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel worked together with a United States reproductive endocrinologist to produce the first-ever cooperative study on in vitro fertilization services in the Middle East. [Full Story]
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Israeli and Palestinian Organ Donations Save Lives
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Eight Israelis are alive today thanks to organs donations by Palestinian and Israeli families whose loved ones were killed in auto accidents during the Jewish New Year holiday of Rosh Hashana. [Full Story]
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Inbal Hotel ?Biker? Raises $100,000 for Pancreatic Research
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Inbal Hotel General Manager Rodney Sanders has completed his 3,300-mile bike ride across America, having raised $100,000 for pancreatic cancer research at the Hadassah Medical Center. [Full Story]
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A Special Bar Mitzvah at Hadassah
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Guy, a young teenager, hospitalized at Hadassah for a year with a rare disease called lymphangiomatosis, celebrated his bar mitzvah at the hospital?s Abbell Synagogue, surrounded by family, his many friends among the staff and fellow patients, and the entire Beitar Jerusalem line-up, Israel's most popular soccer team. [Full Story]
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Perforated Fetal Abdomen Leads Hadassah Physician To Perform Innovative Surgery
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A severe perforation in a fetus? abdomen, coupled with an internal hernia, made it necessary for Hadassah Pediatric Surgeon Danny Arbel to perform a complicated, innovative life-saving surgery hours after the baby?s birth. [Full Story]
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Mother of Terror Victim Sees Spark for Peace Thanks to Hadassah Experience
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Jewish, Christian, and Moslem women from Israel, Jordan, and Egypt met in Jordan for a workshop on building mutual trust and understanding, organized by a Jerusalemite whose son was injured in a terror attack. [Full Story]
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Palestinian Policeman?s Son Is Back at Hadassah for Follow-Up Surgery
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Among the patients visited by the British Parliamentarians who toured the Hadassah Medical Center in September was Baha Khazin, aged 4 1/2, the son of a Palestinian policeman, saved by Hadassah after being severely burned in a fire, who was back at Hadassah for additional surgery. [Full Story]
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Terror Survivor to Become a Dad
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Shimon Ohana, the young border policeman who took bullets in his chest to protect a child from a terrorist and was subsequently saved by Hadassah, will shortly become a father. [Full Story]
Photo: Shimon Ohana (left) at his wedding with his bride and Prof. Avi Rivkind, head of Hadassah's Trauma Unit
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Hadassah Ingenuity Enables Injured Woman to Have a Baby
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Thanks to Hadassah physicians? innovative use of a girdle to support the developing fetus in her compromised stomach, Ziv Mor, who had been critically injured in a car accident, was able to carry a pregnancy to term and deliver a son! [Full Story]
Prof. Avi Rivkind, head of Hadassah's Trauma Unit with Ziv Mor and her newborn son
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Congratulations, Prof. Engelhard!
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Prof. Dan Engelhard, head of Hadassah?s Department of Pediatrics at Ein Kerem, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Pediatric AIDS Center, was named ?Person of the Year? by the local Israeli newspaper, Yedi'ot Jerusalem, for his work with children who have AIDS, both in Israel and Ethiopia.
Photo: Prof. Engelhard examines a child with AIDS
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Editors' note:
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Hadassah Medical Newsbytes are excerpted from The Jerusalem Netletter, Hot Off the Press, The Heart Institute Newsletter, Windows on Hadassah, and correspondence from the Hadassah Medical Center and its website, as well as interviews with Hadassah physicians conducted by us. We invite you to visit our website, www.hadassah-international.org, for archived Hadassah news from past eBulletins and press releases.
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| International Connections |
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Hong Kong: Creating Connections the Hadassah International Way
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Hadassah International's successful inaugural foray into Hong Kong answered a need of the local community for a humanitarian mission that gave a new face to Israel, countering its media image as the home of violence and terrorism. [Full Story]
Photo: Hong Kong community leaders warmly welcomed their Hadassah guests. Left to right: Stuart Chiron, Joy Zweig, Trisha Margulies, President of Hadassah International; Dr. Sarah Borwein, Kathy Chiron, and Guest Speaker Prof. Elliot Berry, head of Hadassah?s Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism
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Hadassah Helps Darfur Refugees Make A Home In Israel
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Not only did a refugee from Darfur recently give birth at Hadassah Medical Center, but now refugees from Darfur living in Israel?s southern city of Arad are being taught Hebrew, courtesy of Hadassah America?s post-university study program in Israel (WUJS Arad), easing their absorption into the country. [Full Story]
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British Union Drops Pursuit of Boycott Against Israeli Academics
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The British University and College Union (UCU) announced on Friday, September 28, that it will no longer pursue a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. [Full Story]
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Costa Rica Connection Continues to Blossom
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Dr. Emma Grace Hernandez, head of the Clinica Universitaria UNIBE, a prominent private medical school in San Jose, Costa Rica, visited the Hadassah Medical Center this past August to see how the seven Costa Rican young medical professionals were progressing in their clinical exchange programs at Hadassah. [Full Story] Back to top
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| News From Our Units |
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Hadassah Australia Sponsors Oration Series Featuring Renowned Hadassah Physician
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Hadassah Australia organized and hosted a trio of acclaimed orations in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth, featuring Professor Elliot Berry, renowned head of Hadassah?s Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism and the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School?s World Health Organization Collaboration Center for Capacity Building in Public Health. [Full Story]
Photos, left to right: Ron Finkel, President, Hadassah Australia in Melbourne; Prof. Elliot Berry; Lionel King, President, Hadassah Australia-Perth/Western Australia; John Zelcer, Vice President, Hadassah Australia in Melbourne; Prof. Elliot Berry; Harold Woolf, President, Hadassah Australia-Sydney/New South Wales
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Harold Woolf: New President of Hadassah Australia-Sydney/New South Wales
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The new President of Hadassah Sydney/New South Wales, Harold Woolf, is the recently retired Chairman of GPR Dehler, an international management consulting firm. [Full Story]
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Israeli Winetasting Mobilizes Munich Community for Hadassah
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Hadassah Germany President Prof. Thomas Ruzicka, Hadassah International President Trisha Margulies, and the Hadassah Munich Committee brought awareness of our Hadassah Medical Center to 85 guests at an elegant winetasting in Munich in September. [Full Story]
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Hadassah New Zealand Issues First On-Line Newsletter
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Hadassah New Zealand was proud to introduce its first on-line newsletter this September. (Click on photo to read newsletter.) Back to top
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