 Cardiac stem cells forming "clones" (see arrows)
after being moved to a new plate |
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an international leader in diabetic research, the Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University, and Pfizer have begun a collaborative project to explore the potential of drugs to stimulate replication and regeneration of insulin-producing cells in people with Type 1 diabetes.
While visiting the
Dr. Mordechai Duvdevani, Director of Endo-urology and Lithotripsy in the Hadassah Medical Center's Department of Urology, has been elected to an elite international committee that determines which medical centers throughout the world will be authorized to conduct fellowships in endo-urology.
 Healthy "live blood" cells (left). Stacked red blood cells from
an unhealthy patient (right). |
Prof. Itamar Raz, Director of the Diabetes Unit at the 
Dr. Daniel Shouval has put 
Knowing that the medicine of tomorrow cannot be practiced in the settings of yesterday, Hadassah embarked on the daunting task of preparing for the future. After careful exploration and examination of the 
Five journalists from major media companies in
 Back row: Prof. Leah Kacen, President, Levinsky College;
Dr. Rinat Cohen, Director of Pediatric Services, Maccabi Healthcare
Services; Prof. Dan Engelhard, head of Pediatrics, Hadassah
Hospital-Ein Kerem; Liat Ben-David, Director, MEIDAH, Ashalim;
Coordinator, Israel Ambulatory Pediatrics Association; Prof. Mati
Berkovitch, President, Israel Pediatric Association; Dr. Jacob Urkin,
Director, Pediatric Primary Care Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben Gurion University; Prof. David Bransky, Chairman of Pediatrics,
Hadassah Medical Center; Dr. Manu Katz, Past President, Israel
Pediatric Association; David Gappel, Schusterman Foundation.
Front: Alberto Meschiany, Adviser to the Avisar Family Fund; Prof.
Asher Ornoy, Director, Child Development Services, Ministry of Health;
Hagai Avisar, Melbourne psychologist; Prof. Frank Oberklaid, Director,
Center for Community Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne;
Prof. Eitan Kerem, head of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus;
Dr. Eli Gazala, Director, Beersheva Child Health Center, Clalit Health
Services; Dr. Adina Yosef, MCH Services, Ministry of Health. |
 Hadassah
right: Prof. Stuart Stanton, Hadassah UK Chair; Juliet
Dawood, Past Chair; Alberta Strage, Past Chair; Dr.
Shir Dar, Hadassah Medical Center Obstetrician/
Gynecologist; Guilda Shamash, Immediate Past Chair;
Prof. Victor Hoffbrand, Trustee; and David Waterman,
Vice-Chair |
 Dr. Dar (left) with Radio Host Bernard Abouaf |
 Frank Rödel's "Masada II" |
Hadassah United Kingdom's trustees were delighted to welcome Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat to
Left to right: Stuart Stanton, Hadassah UK
Chair; David Waterman, trustee; Guilda
Shamash, Immediate Past
Trustee, with Mayor Nir Barkat
Nehama Grenimann Bauch is a gifted artist, a compassionate fundraiser, an innovator, and a relentless go-getter. Her trail of projects, conducted on behalf of Young Hadassah International, marries her passions for art, psychology, global outreach, and healing.Hadassah International unites people of all faiths and nationalities in their mission to improve lives around the globe through support of pioneering medical research, teaching, and healing at the Hadassah Medical Organization in
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