Healing – Page 2 – Hadassah UK

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

23 Dec

COVID BREAKTHROUGH: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREATMENT COULD REDUCE RISK OF DEATH BY 50%

Researchers claim that an ancient Egyptian gout treatment could reduce the risk of death from COVID-19 by 50%. A new study published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine found that a drug derived from the saffron plant has promising properties. Gout, a type of arthritis that causes severe joint pain, has long been treated […]

30 Nov

As we celebrate the festival of lights, we reflect on Hadassah UK’s projects this year

As the global uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and its variants continued into 2021, Hadassah has moved from strength to strength. Here are the moments over the past 12 months that have helped to illuminate Hadassah’s mission and have enhanced the health and lives of people in Jerusalem and worldwide through support of medical care and research at Hadassah’s hospitals. Hadassah UK […]

25 Nov

The Refitted Multiple Sclerosis Centre Sponsored by Hadassah UK

While the staff of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre has reached amazing heights in its research with the results being published in the most prestigious neurological journals in the world, they have been working in a unit whose physical appearance and arrangement are years behind. Now thanks to a generous donation by Hadassah UK, this unit […]

10 Nov

Hadassah’s COVID Warriors – Blog by Photographer Ariel Jerozolimski

Visiting the coronavirus ward at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, I observed doctors, nurses, and other staff. They are truly heroic – and very tired. The coronavirus is still here. The numbers keep dropping and sometimes we forget that in the last year-and-a-half more than 8,000 Israelis have died from COVID-19, including 11 in […]

Tag Healing

HADASSAH AND FRIENDS HELP A DESPERATELY ILL UKRAINIAN MOTHER ESCAPING DESTRUCTION

The New Helmsley Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Hadassah

Hi-Tech Nursing Innovations at Hadassah

The Wolfson Effect

Magnificent Chagall Windows Mark 60 years in Jerusalem

HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH TRAUMA AT HADASSAH

COVID BREAKTHROUGH: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TREATMENT COULD REDUCE RISK OF DEATH BY 50%

As we celebrate the festival of lights, we reflect on Hadassah UK’s projects this year

The Refitted Multiple Sclerosis Centre Sponsored by Hadassah UK

Hadassah’s COVID Warriors – Blog by Photographer Ariel Jerozolimski

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