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Hadassah Ophthalmologist First Israeli to Win Prestigious ARVO Award

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Prof. Jacob Peer, Head of the Onco-Opthalmology Department at Hadassah-University Medical Centre, has become the first Israeli to win the prestigious Joanne G. Angle Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Prof. Peer, won the award earlier this month from ARVO, the largest eye and vision research organisation in the world…

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Hadassah UK Passover Appeal: New Rehabilitation Centre Technological Incubator

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Hadassah UK’s Passover Appeal supports the New Rehabilitation Centre Technological Incubator at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus The Rehabilitation Department at Hadassah Mount Scopus is the sole department for patients aged 16-100 in the greater Jerusalem area. This department covers diverse neurological and orthopaedic situations in at least 4 dominant languages. It is characterised by a…

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AN UPDATE FROM HADASSAH HOSPITAL’S MEDICAL CLOWNS

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The Hadassah UK Purim Campaign supports Hadassah’s Medical Clowns A MESSAGE FROM DAVID ‘DUSH’ BARASHI – ‘’HAPPY PURIM TO OUR HADASSAH UK SUPPORTERS’’ As Hadassah Hospital’s Head Clown, I am pleased and privileged to provide you, our partners in the Hadassah “Dream Doctor” Clown Project, with this update. I will share with you how our…

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Jewish Legacy Month: New Rehabilitation Centre Technological Incubator

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To mark Jewish Legacy Month this November, we wanted to outline exactly how Legacies left for Hadassah UK are being designated to support Hadassah Hospitals, Jerusalem. The Rehabilitation Department at Hadassah Mount Scopus is the sole department for patients aged 16-100 in the greater Jerusalem area. This department covers diverse neurological and orthopaedic situations in…

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SUCCESS: First 3 Patients at Hadassah Recover with Passive Coronavirus Vaccine

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Success: First 3 Patients at Hadassah Recover with Passive Coronavirus Vaccine

The first three patients treated with a new COVID-19 “passive vaccine,” which was developed by Hadassah Medical Centre and the Israeli biopharmaceutical firm Kamada, demonstrated rapid, clinical benefit and have already been released from the hospital to their homes. For three months now, Hadassah has been collecting plasma donations from coronavirus patients. Specifically, the plasma…

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Coping with Anxiety, Depression and PTSD in these Extraordinary Times

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Prof. Esti Galili, Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hadassah Hospital Jerusalem, together with Dr. Claudio Michanie, Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the CEMIC University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prof. Galili emphasised that she was not sharing knowledge but rather sharing her experience in this pandemic. Dr. Michanie expressed…

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Hadassah’s Wohl Institute Provides Tools for Researchers to Advance

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Just six months have passed since the Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine opened at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, but it has already become the focus of 30 research projects from Hadassah. “In such a short time, with nearly half of it dominated by COVID-19, we’ve established ourselves as a national centre,” says Institute Director Prof.…

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Hadassah Researchers Find Source of Coronavirus Blood Clots

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Researchers around the world have been puzzled by a deadly COVID-19 complication. Swollen legs, rashes and sudden death are a result of large and small blood clots. More than 30 percent of COVID-19 patients suffer from blood clots which create lethal blockages in the lungs, kidneys, heart and brain. Hadassah Prof. Abd Higazi, who heads…

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Hadassah UK Summer Summit Programme

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Hadassah UK Summer Summit Programme 2020 A series of talks, with Hadassah Experts. Last chance to join our  webinars with Hadassah top professionals from Jerusalem’s two world-renowned University Hospitals. Sign up to the last talk now! “Transformation and Innovation in Cancer Research and Treatment” Prof. Aron Popovtzer – Head of Hadassah’s Sharett Institute of Oncology,…

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Conservative Friends Of Israel Hosts Online Covid-19 Briefing: With Prof. Allon Moses.

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CFI hosted Israel’s leading expert on infectious diseases Professor Allon Moses in an online briefing about COVID-19. Professor Allon Moses was previously the President of the Israel Society for Infectious Diseases and was Director of the Department for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Hadassah Medical Centre. After Professor Moses’s briefing, Conservative parliamentarians asked questions…

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Face to Face with the Coronavirus

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Dr. Ran Nir-Paz, a highly respected infectious disease expert at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, has travelled to Japan many times, but the trip he took last month was unlike any other. Hundreds of people — aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship — including four Israelis — contracted the coronavirus known as COVID-19. The Israeli government…

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HADASSAH VISITS JAPAN TO TREAT ISRAELIS WITH CORONAVIRUS

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At the request of the Israel Health Ministry, Hadassah Medical Centre microbiology and infectious disease specialist Prof. Ran Nir-Paz is traveling to Japan to care for the three Israelis said to have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Israelis were among thousands of passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship who were quarantined by the Japanese authorities. More than 350…

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