Category Relief

31 May

The Healing Power of Diversity at Hadassah

Opinion piece by Michal Cotler-Wunsh   I recently spent ten days living in Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem, as my 21-year-old daughter, injured in an accident, was with second-degree burns on significant areas of her legs and arm.   The experience as a mother was agonising – watching your child in excruciating physical […]

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23 May

Hadassah Medical Mission Saves Ukrainian Mum and Baby

The Hadassah Hospital delegation sent to the Ukraine-Poland border saved the life of a mother giving birth under severe health conditions, coupled with the stress of pregnancy in a war zone, according to the hospital. Against the ongoing backdrop of a nearby barrage of explosions, clinic doctors diagnosed the Ukrainian pregnant woman under stress with […]

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17 May

HADASSAH NURSES SAVE LIVES – ANY TIME, ANY PLACE

HADASSAH HEROES BLOG BY: HAYA SUBHI, SURGICAL NURSE, HADASSAH HOSPITAL, EIN KEREM “It started out as a normal, ordinary day, and ended up as a day that was so incredibly special that I will not forget it for the rest of my life… I was leaving after a workout at the Sports Centre, when suddenly […]

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11 May

HADASSAH AND FRIENDS HELP A DESPERATELY ILL UKRAINIAN MOTHER ESCAPING DESTRUCTION

Sveta, 46-years-old, did not hesitate when she had the opportunity to escape from Chernihiv, a beautiful historic Ukrainian town northeast of Kyiv. She was very ill, and together with her 6-year-old daughter Nastia, they had been living in a nightmare. Besides underlying health problems (diabetes and a heart condition), a bad case of COVID-19 two […]

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28 Apr

REACHING OUT TO UKRAINE’S REFUGEES: HADASSAH’S HUMANITARIAN MISSION IN POLAND

We’ve all seen pictures from the Polish refugee centres—halls filled end-to-end with mattresses, mothers trying to keep children of all ages occupied while nearly overwhelmed themselves with anxiety and uncertainty, older people grasping their possessions, overcome with being suddenly uprooted, some not for the first time. Into this confusion steps the staff of the Hadassah’s […]

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14 Apr

Hadassah Helps Heal Ukrainian Refugees

Blog by Hadassah International Executive Director, Jorge Diener, April 2022: My father was the last of his generation in our family to pass away. Bernardo Diener was born in Buenos Aires to Polish parents who escaped right before the Holocaust. A couple of days before my father died, I had my last chance of interacting […]

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31 Mar

The New Helmsley Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Hadassah

This year Hadassah UK is supporting the Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, which is the only effective therapy for many immune system disorders and blood cancers requiring stem cell transplants. Many of these diseases are hereditary and occur more frequently in Israel due to the high rate of consanguineous marriage (between […]

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24 Mar

Hi-Tech Nursing Innovations at Hadassah

Despite the best efforts of our medical caregivers, certain medical procedures can be painful or unpleasant. Do we just “grin and bear it,” or can we come up with better methods to mitigate the pain? Not if Hadassah Medical Organisation nurses can help it. At Hadassah we always put our patients’ wellbeing first.  In our hospitals in Jerusalem, […]

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10 Mar

Hadassah Updates on the Ground in Poland

HADASSAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL OPERATION TO TREAT UKRAINIAN  REFUGEES For more: see our live blog  Nobody can be unaffected by the conflict in Ukraine, so this year Hadassah UK have decided to split our appeal to also support Hadassah Hospital’s Humanitarian Medical Mission in Lublin, Poland and on the Ukrainian Border. In response to the Ukrainian […]

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9 Mar

NeuroGenesis and Hadassah Report Positive NF-L Biomarker Results from a Phase 2 Study in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Treated with NG-01 Cells Therapy

NeuroGenesis, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative cell therapies to combat myelin-related neurodegenerative diseases, and Hadassah Medical Centre announced last week positive results from a placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial assessing the impact of NG-01 autologous proprietary subpopulation of bone marrow cells on the expression levels of NF-L, a commonly-used biomarker for multiple sclerosis (MS) […]

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