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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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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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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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23 May

Hadassah Medical Mission Saves Ukrainian Mum and Baby

The Hadassah Hospital delegation sent to the Ukraine-Poland border saved the life of a mother giving birth under severe health conditions, coupled with the stress of pregnancy in a war zone, according to the hospital. Against the ongoing backdrop of a nearby barrage of explosions, clinic doctors diagnosed the Ukrainian pregnant woman under stress with […]

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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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