Relief – Page 6 – Hadassah UK

22 Feb

The Wolfson Effect

Thanks to Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, Hadassah offers cancer surgery, which is not only better, less invasive with quicker healing but helps patients who were previously inoperable. Hadassah’s newest robotic surgical system – “the da Vinci SI” purchased thanks to the support of UK Donor the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust is now being used by […]

18 Jan

HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH TRAUMA AT HADASSAH

Throughout the pandemic, Hadassah’s psychiatry unit has been full, with a six-month waiting list for new patients. Its day clinics have been at capacity, too, fielding 17,000 patients in 2021 and a months-long waiting list just to get an appointment. At certain times during the pandemic, many interventions went remote, but “therapy via Zoom is […]

23 Dec

COVID BREAKTHROUGH: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREATMENT COULD REDUCE RISK OF DEATH BY 50%

Researchers claim that an ancient Egyptian gout treatment could reduce the risk of death from COVID-19 by 50%. A new study published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine found that a drug derived from the saffron plant has promising properties. Gout, a type of arthritis that causes severe joint pain, has long been treated […]

30 Nov

As we celebrate the festival of lights, we reflect on Hadassah UK’s projects this year

As the global uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and its variants continued into 2021, Hadassah has moved from strength to strength. Here are the moments over the past 12 months that have helped to illuminate Hadassah’s mission and have enhanced the health and lives of people in Jerusalem and worldwide through support of medical care and research at Hadassah’s hospitals. Hadassah UK […]

25 Nov

The Refitted Multiple Sclerosis Centre Sponsored by Hadassah UK

While the staff of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre has reached amazing heights in its research with the results being published in the most prestigious neurological journals in the world, they have been working in a unit whose physical appearance and arrangement are years behind. Now thanks to a generous donation by Hadassah UK, this unit […]

10 Nov

Hadassah’s COVID Warriors – Blog by Photographer Ariel Jerozolimski

Visiting the coronavirus ward at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, I observed doctors, nurses, and other staff. They are truly heroic – and very tired. The coronavirus is still here. The numbers keep dropping and sometimes we forget that in the last year-and-a-half more than 8,000 Israelis have died from COVID-19, including 11 in […]

14 Oct

Battling Cancer at Hadassah

Hadassah’s 44-year-old Sharett Institute of Oncology at Hadassah’s Ein Kerem campus has set the benchmark for preventing, treating and researching cancer in Israel. “Its legacy of cancer care is very strong,” affirmed the Sharett Institute’s new director, Dr. Aron Popovtzer. “We’ve seen a 30 percent increase in patients this past year alone,” said Dr. Popovtzer, […]

31 Aug

Hadassah UK New Nursery at Mount Scopus – Rosh Hashanah Appeal

When Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus campus reopened in 1976, it was considered the most spacious and developed hospital in Jerusalem and was built to accommodate 250 births each month. Now this has almost doubled and, with nearly 500 babies born every month, is expected to rise significantly in time as Jerusalem continues to grow. With […]

8 Jul

Curbing Delta’s force, Vaccines keep Israel’s Hospitals calm and avert lockdown

‘’If we weren’t so well-vaccinated, lockdown would be looming.’’ Israel would be in the throes of a huge virus spike and hurtling toward a new lockdown, had it not reached such high vaccine coverage, the government’s top COVID adviser said. Despite having a large population 12 years old and younger who cannot currently receive shots, […]

29 Jun

From Israel to South America: Hadassah’s Butterfly Effect

Blog by Jorge Diener, Executive Director at Hadassah International It is an understatement to say that we are living in extraordinary times. More than a year ago, disruption was a word that represented innovation, creativity and thinking out-of-the-box. The Coronavirus pandemic has locked us inside boxes and disrupted, in one way or another, the lives […]

Category Relief

The Wolfson Effect

HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH TRAUMA AT HADASSAH

COVID BREAKTHROUGH: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREATMENT COULD REDUCE RISK OF DEATH BY 50%

As we celebrate the festival of lights, we reflect on Hadassah UK’s projects this year

The Refitted Multiple Sclerosis Centre Sponsored by Hadassah UK

Hadassah’s COVID Warriors – Blog by Photographer Ariel Jerozolimski

Battling Cancer at Hadassah

Hadassah UK New Nursery at Mount Scopus – Rosh Hashanah Appeal

Curbing Delta’s force, Vaccines keep Israel’s Hospitals calm and avert lockdown

From Israel to South America: Hadassah’s Butterfly Effect

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