Hadassah /Oxford University Study of Bone Fragility Among Diabetics Receives Research Grant

Posted on November 18, 2019
Birax, Bone cells, Bone density, British Council, British Embassy Israel, Diabetes, endocrinology, Hadassah Hospital, Hadassah Medical Centre, Hadassah Medical Organisation, Israel, Jerusalem, Medical Research, Metabolism, Oxford, Oxford University, Pears Foundation, Study, Type 1 Diabetes, UK, University of Oxford
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Prof. Rivka Dresner Pollak, head of the Hadassah Medical Organisation’s Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, together with University of Oxford colleague Prof. Lynne Cox, has received funding for a three-year joint project to study age-related bone fragility in patients with type 1 diabetes who are currently at high risk of bone fracture and premature death,…

Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine Inaugurated at Hadassah

by Mark Addleman

Posted on October 30, 2019
Cancer, Diseases, Drug Development, Hadassah Hospital, Hadassah UK, HMO, imaging, Israel, Jerusalem, Medical Research, medicine, MRI Scan, Partnership, translational medicine, ultrasound, Wohl Institute, Wohl Legacy
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The Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine, a new centre geared toward applied research for personalised medicine, was inaugurated on October 24th at the Hadassah Medical Organisation (HMO). The new multidisciplinary institute is a result of a partnership among the Wohl Legacy in the United Kingdom, Hadassah International United Kingdom, and HMO. The Wohl Institute: Offers…

First Arab Woman to Head Up Hospital ER in Israel

by Mark Addleman

Posted on October 18, 2019
Arab, Emergency, Emergency room, Hadassah Heroes, Hadassah Hospital, hospital, Israel, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post
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Describing her pioneering role as “a great responsibility with a lot of pride,” Dr. Shaden Salameh is the first Arab female doctor to head up a hospital emergency room in Israel. As director of the Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus Emergency Medicine Department, Dr. Salameh explains that the greater the challenge, the more motivated she is.…

An Oasis of Peace

by Mark Addleman

Posted on September 23, 2019
Arabs, Christians, Doctors, Ein Kerem, Ellen Hershkin, Hadassah Hospital, Hadassah Medical Centre, hospital, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Medical Care, Medical Relief, Middle East, Mount Scopus, nurses, Oasis, Peace, Times of Israel
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To many, the term “Middle East peace” represents the impossible dream, if not the ultimate contradiction in terms. But there is a place in the region where Jews, Muslims and Christians meet peacefully every day on the basis of shared concerns and a sense of humanity. It’s not a country, though it is older than…

If Israel were more like Hadassah

by Mark Addleman

Posted on August 21, 2019
Aliyah, Arab, Arabic, Chagall Windows, Christian, Hadassah Medical Center, Hadassah Medical Centre, Har Hatzofim, healing garden, Hebrew, HWZOA, Jew, Modi'in, Mount Scopus, Neurology, plasmaphereses, rehab, Stacey Goodstein Ashtamker, therapists, United Synagogue Youth, USY
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The mix of Jewish patients, Arab doctors, Arab patients, Jewish doctors, and therapists who speak unexpected Hebrew or Arabic makes me think peace is possible. Blog by Stacey Goodstein Ashtamker Hadassah — a word that for most of the early years of my life I thought of as Jewish mothers and grandmothers attending meetings and…

Thanks to Hadassah Physicians, Toddler with Blocked Oesophagus now Enjoys Solid Food

by Mark Addleman

Posted on August 5, 2019
Cancer, children, Doctors, Eating disorder, Ein Kerem, Endoscopic, Food, gastroenterology, Gastroscopy, hadassah, Jerusalem, Oesophagus, Paediatric, Physician, Stomach, Surgery, Toddler
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Two-and-a-half-year-old Yanki Leib Shetland had never eaten a carrot or a potato chip. He was subsisting on baby formula, chocolate milk, and porridge. It was no wonder he was so small and underdeveloped. When his desperate parents brought Yanki to the Paediatric Gastroenterology department at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, he managed to surprise even the…

Hadassah Doctors Give a Gazan Patient with an Incurable Skin Disease a “Normal Life”

by Mark Addleman

Posted on July 24, 2019
amputation, dermatologists, Dr. Chernofsky, Dr. Luria, Gaza, hadassah, Hadassah Medical Centre, HPV, Human Papillomavirus, Jerusalem, lesions, medical advice, operations, rare disease, skin condition, surgeon, Surgery, treatment, tumours, virus, warts
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Even the experienced hand surgeons at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem had never seen such a shocking development: their patient’s hands, with encrusted, wood-like growths, looked as if they had metamorphosed into trees. Hadassah Senior Hand and Microvascular Surgeon Dr. Michael Chernofsky first met 42-year-old Mohammed Taluli from Gaza when Mr. Taluli came in to his…

“Just Clownin’ Around!” Medical Clown at Hadassah Hospital heals with happiness

by Mark Addleman

Posted on July 4, 2019
children, David Barashi, Dream Doctors, Dush, Hadassah Heroes, Hadassah Medical Center, happiness, Healing, hospital, Jerusalem, laughter, medical clown, Patients
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When David ‘Dush’ Barashi walks up to you in the hallway, he comes across as animated, a cartoon figure come to life. You feel like you’re meeting a Disney character. Perhaps from “Aladdin” or “Pirates of the Caribbean.” His mop of salt and pepper hair and twistable mustache looks like it spawned from the barbershop…

Rare disease creates bond between Israeli and Palestinian patients

by Mark Addleman

Posted on June 26, 2019
babies, children, digestion, gastroenterology, Gaza, hadassah, Healing, hospital, Jerusalem, medicine, Milman, mitzvah, Paediatric, Palestinian, rare disease, Scopus, Wilschanski
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They met in the Paediatrics Department at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, two couples whose children suffer from a rare disease. One couple from an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, and one couple from Gaza, both sharing the same concern for their tiny loved ones who are hospitalised for treatment and follow-up at a Hadassah Paediatric gastroenterology…

Hadassah School for sick children

by Mark Addleman

Posted on May 31, 2019
art, classes, cooking, diversity, ethnicity, faith, Hadassah School, Healing, Israel, Meducation, Ministry of Education, multiculturalism, music, music therapy, oncology, Paediatric, painting, Palestinian, pediatric, School, school classes, Surgery, teachers
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By Wendy Elliman March 2019 It took 7-year-old Malik only moments to decide that “Despacito” is his favourite song. An Arabic version of the Puerto Rican pop hit was found on an iPad, and he and other youngsters accompanied its Latin rhythms on drums, cabasas, maracas and cymbals. Moishy was next. The 4-year-old’s choice was…

Hadassah doctor solves a medical mystery to save one little girl, and then many more.

by Mark Addleman

Posted on May 15, 2019
360 Degrees of Healing, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, diagnosis, Eculizumab, Elpeleg, Mevorach, mutation, paralyzed
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Genetics and Metabolic Diseases -Hadassah 360 Degrees of Healing 15 May, 2019 The parents were desperate to save their daughter. They had already lost their son. “By the time I met Tohar, she was three years old and paralyzed,” relates Prof. Dror Mevorach, head of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s Department of Medicine B and a…

Hadassah’s Medical Clown David “Dush” Barashi does serious World Healing

by Mark Addleman

Posted on March 19, 2019
addis, Albania, Barashi, clowning, Docteur Clown, Dream Doctors, Ethiopia, Greece, Haiti, HIV, IDF, Iraq, Macedonia, Medical Mission, Nepal, paramedic, Rwanda, Tene Centre, Yazidi
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Israeli Medical Clowns Do Serious Work Healing the World by ISRAEL21c | 03.11.19 Israel Defense Forces medical missions always fly to disaster zones with tons of medical equipment. For David “Dush” Barashi, the most critical piece of equipment is his red nose. A veteran member of Israel’s Dream Doctors Project, Barashi and fellow medical clowns…

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Hadassah /Oxford University Study of Bone Fragility Among Diabetics Receives Research Grant

Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine Inaugurated at Hadassah

First Arab Woman to Head Up Hospital ER in Israel

An Oasis of Peace

If Israel were more like Hadassah

Thanks to Hadassah Physicians, Toddler with Blocked Oesophagus now Enjoys Solid Food

Hadassah Doctors Give a Gazan Patient with an Incurable Skin Disease a “Normal Life”

“Just Clownin’ Around!” Medical Clown at Hadassah Hospital heals with happiness

Rare disease creates bond between Israeli and Palestinian patients

Hadassah School for sick children

Hadassah doctor solves a medical mystery to save one little girl, and then many more.

Hadassah’s Medical Clown David “Dush” Barashi does serious World Healing

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