Article by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich,

THE JERUSALEM POST

Feb. 28, 2009

It would be a win-win situation, but no government, health or finance ministry has done anything significant to promote medical tourism to Israel.

With a little investment in medical infrastructure, this "niche industry " could easily bring in $100 million a year (15% of all current tourism income), reduce the temptation among the most experienced and promising doctors to leave the country, boost the quality of "hotel services" in hospitals and spread Israel's good name, even in countries that have no diplomatic relations with us. 

The Medical Tourist

By NETTY C. GROSS

Cover story in Issue 13, October 13, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report.

Healthy pregnancy in a 37 years old woman who is a BRCA2 gene mutation carrier. (may cause cancer to the children in later years), after she underwent In-Vitro fertilization and pre –implantation genetic diagnosis.

As part of the world's transformation into a small global village, the phenomenon of medical tourism has picked up in the past few years.

Hadassah uses Internet to attract foreign surgical patients

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 16, 2007.

During the hospitalization of the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, Hadassah was covered by the media. Media came from all over the world and parked at the Ben-Gurion square o cover this event.

"The Ethiopian Herald" was one of the news papers.

An article on Dr. Rothschild's work in the Department of Human Genetics.

See article below.                                    

An article about the research discoveries on PTSD that was made by researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, a simple blood test might enable psychiatrists to predict if a person will develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), while still in the emergency room, a few hours after the traumatic event occurred.

People diagnosed with cancer can suffer from psychological trauma as bad as the physical effects. Psyco-oncology Prof. Lea Baider specializes in helping patients remember that they are still normal.

Article published August 19, 2004 in the New York Times By STEVEN ERLANGER, about six-year-old Mahdi Abu Snaineh who was gravely wounded in a terror attack at the Kalandia checkpoint.

By Judy Seigel, Jerusalem Post.           

"Glaucoma and cataracts are two common causes of blindness. A new book by an Israeli ophthalmologist describes them and details how they can be cured or controlled.- Judy Siegal-Itzkovich reports".