Tag Hadassah Medical Centre

5 Sep

World First at Hadassah:

An artificial-intelligence algorithm to identify a group of “point mutations” that cause cancer in TP53 – a gene involved in about half of all cancerous tumours – has been developed by a group of researchers at Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem. Their discovery has aroused much interest among doctors and scientists around the world.   The […]

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21 Jun

Spearheading an Expansion at Hadassah Mount Scopus

Dr. Tamar Elram, an obstetrician-gynecologist, age 50, has been head of the 350-bed Mount Scopus hospital since 2017, responsible for its staff of 1,200 and almost 300,000 patients each year as well as for its operations, maintenance and development. But she still relishes her clinical work. “Continuing to practice gynecology keeps my feet on the […]

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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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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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5 May

Everything You Need to Know About the Hepatitis Outbreak Among Children

Is the number of cases in Israel unusually high, what are the symptoms of the disease and is it linked to the coronavirus? Haaretz explains The Health Ministry said that it is looking into 12 cases of children hospitalised in recent months with severe hepatitis. The investigation had been recommended by the World Health Organisation […]

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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 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 […]

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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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