Posted on February 28, 2017
Hadassah’s Foetal Medicine Specialist is one of only three doctors worldwide using new Spina Bifida in-utero surgery technique. History was made at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on Thursday, February 9 when a team of Israeli surgeons successfully operated on a 5-month-old foetus using a new procedure that only three doctors in the…
Posted on February 15, 2017
birth, Hadassah Heroes, Hebrew University, Henrietta Szold, Libbie Goldstein, Midwife
Creative / Education / Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Nonprofit / Nurse
Chapter Three: For you have returned my life to me * Every morning when I awake, I put my two feet on the ground and gratefully thank the almighty for returning my soul to me. This is the start for each and every day. Having been through a life threatening disease has taught me to…
Posted on January 26, 2017
Alternative Medicine, cannabis, illegal drug, Marijuana, Tikun Olam
Medical Marijuana in the Promised Land A background A farm inland from Caesarea, looks rather similar to others in this vicinity. It is enclosed with high walls and its curved roofs of its greenhouses are visible from the outside. As one enters, , everything is clear. A profound aroma can be smelt. This is “Breath…
Posted on January 23, 2017
Baza “Maya” Alemitu trained as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces. “I loved it. All I wanted after my army service was to be a nurse,” says the Ethiopian-born 26-year-old. “I was shattered when my psychometric grade wasn’t anywhere near high enough, I thought, to get into any nursing school in Israel.” Although Alemitu…
Posted on January 11, 2017
Aliyah, Aly's Story, Brain Tumour, Jerusalem, Multiple Sclerosis
Guest Blog: Aly’s Story- Chapter 2 Chanukah Samiach and Season’s greetings to all. As I sit here watching the light of the first candle reflect the wonderful miracle of Chanukah, I also reflect on the miracles being performed daily at Hadassah hospital. Some of the fantastic pictures on the website here bear testament to those…
Posted on January 9, 2017
Chapter Two: The circles of my life It is said that a single photo can tell a story better than a thousand words. In our day and age each smart phone contains millions of photos and often people have innumerable words to add to them. Ten years ago times were different and much simpler. We…
Posted on December 2, 2016
Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, have for 30 years been fortunate to know Rabbi Yitzhak and Sima Peretz. Both 49 years of age have longed for children and have prayed for this moment for many years. Residents of the Givat Shaul neighbourhood of Jerusalem, they diligently prepared food for the hospital on Shabbat over all these…
Posted on November 23, 2016
I did not realise the different depths to the word “Trauma” until I went to the Embassy of Israel Seminar on terrorist incident mass casualty trauma arranged by the Embassy on Friday 18th November. This was an august round-table meeting of the various London hospital heads of Trauma (or Accident & Emergency Depts. as it…
Posted on November 14, 2016
by Yael Fridson The baby fell in the synagogue and suffered intracranial bleeding. Her father and a paramedic took her urgently to Hadassah, while she was sedated and ventilated. The nightmare scenario of every parent – the baby falls out of their hands – was the experience of Jerusalem’s resident, Chavi, who took her seven…
Posted on November 7, 2016
Aliyah, Aly's Story, Brain Tumour, Jerusalem, Multiple Sclerosis
Guest Blog: Aly’s Story- My name is Aly, and I’m proud and honoured to have been asked to write a blog for the Hadassah UK website. I hope that my regular updates can help to give you an insight into what truly makes the Hadassah Hospital tick . . . the building, the patients and…
Posted on October 26, 2016
Chapter one: My Hadassah The hallways of Hadassah Hospital tell the ongoing history of the City of Jerusalem and thousands of personal stories too. My story begins in those hallowed hallways of Hadassah and continues as I make my way to my shifts as a Maternity ward nurse. So many special moments of my life…
Posted on October 6, 2016
ALS, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart, Medical, Melanoma, Parkinson's, Research, stem cells
From developing a melanoma vaccine to working on controlling diabetes, Hadassah’s multidisciplinary, collaborative approach is resulting in medical breakthroughs and innovations. Tens of thousands bless Travelan, the over-the-counter natural health product that helps prevent traveler’s diarrhea. The ultrasound device PainShield has wrought a revolution in healing chronic wounds. And PerioChip, inserted between tooth and gum,…