Tag Israel

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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14 Apr

Hadassah Helps Heal Ukrainian Refugees

Blog by Hadassah International Executive Director, Jorge Diener, April 2022: My father was the last of his generation in our family to pass away. Bernardo Diener was born in Buenos Aires to Polish parents who escaped right before the Holocaust. A couple of days before my father died, I had my last chance of interacting […]

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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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10 Mar

Hadassah Updates on the Ground in Poland

HADASSAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL OPERATION TO TREAT UKRAINIAN  REFUGEES For more: see our live blog  Nobody can be unaffected by the conflict in Ukraine, so this year Hadassah UK have decided to split our appeal to also support Hadassah Hospital’s Humanitarian Medical Mission in Lublin, Poland and on the Ukrainian Border. In response to the Ukrainian […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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