Hadassah’s Solidarity Mission to Israel took place this week, with our supporters from around the world, to stand in solidarity, witness the transformative work underway, and share in the uplifting stories of resilience. The mission began with a heart-breaking visit to the Hostage Task Force Centre, where the group heard from Moran and Raz […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
COVID-19: HAS ISRAEL DONE ENOUGH TO HALT A DELTA VARIANT OUTBREAK?
Are the minimal restrictions passed by the coronavirus cabinet to stop the spread of the Delta variant outbreak risky or responsible? Health officials seem divided. “These are good decisions and the right way to deal with the current situation,” said Prof. Dror Mevorach, a senior physician from Hadassah-University Medical Centre. “I believe we should have […]
HADASSAH IS JERUSALEM’S FIRST PUBLIC BODY TO USE NATURAL GAS
‘Our patients and those around us will be able to breathe cleaner air and the economic savings will allow the hospital to expand the services’ it can provide to arriving patients. Hadassah-University Medical Centre, Ein Kerem, became the first public institution to operate with the help of natural gas last Tuesday evening. In a ceremony […]
Tatiana Zhelninova, the former chief Physician and Medical Director of Hadassah Medical Moscow in Skolkovo, is striving to bring Israel’s top doctors and best biotechnologies to the United Arab Emirates, thereby improving healthcare in the region. “For doctors, nurses and medical professors, nationality and race are not important,” she told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday […]
“Our society needs to heal. We are mixed, and this is what makes us beautiful and special. But we need to focus on what we have in common, not on our differences. We have to think about our shared destiny.” This is the hope of Dr. Shaden Salameh-Youssef, currently the director of the Emergency Medicine […]
Number of serious Coronavirus patients in Israel drops below 200
At the peak of the pandemic some 1,200 people were in serious condition. The Israeli Health Ministry reported last week: The number of coronavirus patients in serious condition has dropped to 193, the lowest figure since last July. The number of new daily cases has been steadily declining, and at last count 2,270 people were […]
