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14 Apr

Hadassah Heroes Blog: Medical Clown Dush provides comfort to Ukrainian refugees

‘’A one in a million chance’’ By David ‘Dush’ Barashi Let me tell you a story of which the end is still unknown… While I was in a refugee camp at the Ukraine-Poland border, working with refugees who have powerful emotions, fears and occasionally heartfelt smiles. I stopped for a moment at Hadassah […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

16 Feb

Predictive-AI Algorithm Successfully Identifies Common Cancerous Gene Mutations at Hadassah Cancer Research Institute

Breakthrough research at Hadassah identifies all possible cancer-causing mutations of a key gene (TP53) found in 50% of tumours. The Hadassah Cancer Research Institute at the Hadassah University Medical Centre in Jerusalem, announced today that using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have developed, an algorithm to identify, with an unprecedented 96.5% level of accuracy, all possible deleterious […]

8 Feb

Magnificent Chagall Windows Mark 60 years in Jerusalem

Each of the 12 stained-glass panels that Chagall donated to Hadassah Medical Centre is filled with a dance of intricate images and stunning colours. When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were […]

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 […]

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Hadassah Heroes Blog: Medical Clown Dush provides comfort to Ukrainian refugees

Hadassah Helps Heal Ukrainian Refugees

The New Helmsley Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Hadassah

Hi-Tech Nursing Innovations at Hadassah

Hadassah Updates on the Ground in Poland

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

The Wolfson Effect

Predictive-AI Algorithm Successfully Identifies Common Cancerous Gene Mutations at Hadassah Cancer Research Institute

Magnificent Chagall Windows Mark 60 years in Jerusalem

HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH TRAUMA AT HADASSAH

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