Tag Hadassah Medical Organisation

20 Mar

Getting to the Heart of the Matter – Opinion

Getting to the heart of the matter – opinion   A 36-year-old married father of two, Mohammed (not his real name) is a baker who traverses every day from his home in a Palestinian village near Abu Dis to a nearby settlement. He takes pride in preparing pastries with delicate, flaky dough that commuters enjoy […]

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16 Mar

HADASSAH’S ORGANOIDS PERSONALISE TREATMENT FOR CANCER PATIENTS

The Organoid Centre at Hadassah Ein Kerem, the first of its kind in Israel, was established by Hadassah at the initiative of Prof. Eyal Mishani, head of Hadassah’s Research and Development Department and the Research Fund. The director is Dr. Myriam Grunewald, a specialist in vascular biology. Serving as director of the centre’s clinic is […]

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8 Mar

Hadassah’s New Gene Targeting Tool Can Improve Cancer Treatment Outcomes for Patients

Hadassah Cancer Research Institute at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, announced last month that researchers have designed a genomic analysis tool for cancer patients that enables advanced selection of drugs targeting schemes for cancer genes, opening the door to improved personalised medicine in cancer treatment.   The science behind this breakthrough tool is a […]

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15 Feb

Hadassah is helping encourage young Arab Israeli citizens to volunteer for National Service

Hadassah is helping encourage young Arab Israeli citizens to volunteer for National Service   For the past three years, Hadassah Hospital has offered a programme tailored to young Arab men and women, aged 17 to 23, who would like to volunteer. Our programme has been so successful that volunteers who may live far from the […]

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18 Jan

Ukranian Doctors Undergo Training At Hadassah in Advanced Cancer Treatment

Ukranian Doctors undergo Training at Hadassah in Advanced Cancer Treatment   Hadassah supporters can feel proud that your donations have made it possible for two Ukrainian doctors and a nurse from Kyiv’s 600-bed National Cancer Institute to undergo training in advanced cancer treatment at Hadassah.   Their training has been under the guidance of Professor […]

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12 Jan

New Blood Cancer Treatment developed at Hadassah for Multiple Myeloma shows 90% improvement

BREAKING NEWS   Hadassah together with Bar Ilan University have successfully developed an immunotherapy treatment for Multiple Myeloma by “reprogramming the immune systems” of cancer patients, with a US-based pharma company licensing it for commercialisation. The treatment involves removing healthy white blood cells — T-cells — from cancer patients and adding an artificial molecule before […]

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8 Nov

The Hadassah Nurses who Look After Women with Cancer

A breast cancer diagnosis is a particularly shocking and confusing moment. In order to help the patients get through their journey, at Hadassah they receive personal guidance from a breast coordinator nurse, who becomes an anchor of knowledge and stability in a complex and challenging process. “The treatment of the disease is a journey, and […]

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27 Oct

Hadassah and Drug Giant Merck Launch MRNA Iniative To Fight Cancer

Pharmaceutical company Merck and Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem launched CanceRNA, which aims to use messenger-RNA technology to treat cancer   Regine Shevach, the head of Merck’s Innovative Technologies Enablement Centre in Israel, has always believed in collaborations.   “In the past, projects usually happened within the same industry,” she said. “Today, however, things have […]

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21 Sep

Life-Saving Breakthrough for Heart Disease at Hadassah

In a first for Israel, a highly trained and talented cardiac team at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem are repairing aneurysms in the aortal arch with a minimally invasive procedure replacing more risky open-heart surgery. This surgery take less time, and the patients also recover more quickly, avoiding serious complications.   Instead of performing open-heart surgery, […]

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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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