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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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) […]

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 […]

Tag innovation

Hadassah and Drug Giant Merck Launch MRNA Iniative To Fight Cancer

World First at Hadassah:

Spearheading an Expansion at Hadassah Mount Scopus

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

The New Helmsley Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Hadassah

Hi-Tech Nursing Innovations at Hadassah

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

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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