Medical News
20-Jun-2008
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sarah Sallon, Director of The Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center (NMRC) at the Hadassah Medical Center, has succeeded in growing a 2,000-year-old date seed, the oldest ever to be germinated. Details of the research appear in the June 13, 2008 issue of Science Magazine in an article entitled “Germination, Genetics, and Growth of an Ancient Date Seed.”
20-Jun-2008
On the heels of success of the Phase I trials, Hadassah Medical Center has embarked on the next set of tests for Oramed Pharmaceuticals’ oral insulin capsule—the world’s first oral insulin treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
20-Jun-2008
Professor Dimitrios Karussis, Senior Neurologist at the Hadassah Medical Center, and Professor Shimon Slavin, former head of Hadassah’s Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit and founder of the International Center for Cell Therapy and Cancer (ICTC) at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, have received the "International Adult Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Treatments Award 2008" from the Worldwide Center for Adult Stem Cell Education (WCASCE).
20-Jun-2008
Prof. Arieh Shalev, Chief of the Hadassah Medical Center’s Psychiatry Department and a leading world expert in post-traumatic stress, is leading groundbreaking research into treatment for Military Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
5-May-2008
An International Heart Failure Symposium was hosted by Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem in November 2007, with the participation of leading specialists in the field of heart failure from Israel and abroad.
5-May-2008
Thanks to a study conducted by Operating Room Head Nurse Miriam Avraham, all linens and clothes the surgeons and nurses wear in Hadassah’s operating rooms, are now disposable.
5-May-2008
Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem is now home to a “Medical Cinemateque”—the first movie theater in the world within a hospital setting, where patients view movies that deal with various medical issues.
5-May-2008
A Jerusalem street has been named in memory of Former Hadassah Medical Center Director-General Dr. Haim Yassky, who was murdered along with 78 other Hadassah health professionals when their convoy was ambushed on its way up to Hadassah-Hospital-Mount Scopus in April 1948 as it attempted to bring medical supplies to the hospital.
5-May-2008
Hadassah’s recently opened Bearman Intermediate Respiratory Care Unit (IRCU) has already enhanced the quality of life for two children with lung problems, one an Israeli, the other a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip.
5-May-2008
The Hadassah Medical Center will be hosting its second International Congress on Chronic Disorders and Disabilities in Children, December 3-5, 2008 in Jerusalem.
