The Chagall Windows at Hadassah Ein-Kerem hospital will be closed to visitors between March 1 – May 20, 2010 due to construction works. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience.

Da Vinci – the surgical robot – marks its first anniversary of use at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Ein Kerem.

Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center, together with Dor Yeshorim (The Committee for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases) have announced the discovery of a genetic mutation that causes children of Ashkenazi Jews to be born with Joubert Syndrome, a neurological genetic disease. Their findings will be published in the  January 2010 edition of The American Journal of Human Genetics. This is the 13^th gene whose mutations may cause the birth of children with genetic diseases Hadassah’s Department of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases discovered during the last two years.

Jerusalem - Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center have demonstrated that – when administered orally for a month – the frozen natural extract of the succulent plant Hoodia Parviflora decreases the level of sugar in the blood and improves the symptoms of metabolic syndrome in patients with fatty liver disease. This is the first time this plant’s extract proved to efficiently decrease the level of fat in the liver and the first time scientists succeeded in improving symptoms of fatty liver disease using natural materials, in addition to the plant’s appetite suppressing properties.

A Phase 1 clinical trial conducted at the Hadassah University Hospital-Ein Kerem showed that ingesting one dose of a new slow release Metadoxine formula before consuming alcohol lowered the level of alcohol in the blood, dramatically improved motor and cognitive functions and decreased the craving for alcohol in the test participants. Metadoxine, a substance currently used to treat alcoholic addiction, is only effective for about 50 minutes. The slow release formula was developed by Alcobra Ltd., an Israeli start-up company.

Jerusalem - Hadassah researchers have demonstrated that Colostrum, the milk produced by cows immediately after calving, enriched with insulin antibodies, dramatically lowers the level of sugar and insulin resistance in mice with a model of fatty liver disease. They treated mice with fatty liver disease with Colostrum enriched with insulin antibodies, administered orally for four weeks, which showed positive results.

Doctor & Gourmet Chef Rani Polak of "Hadassah Optimal" in Jerusalem Illustrates how to eat safely without sacrificing taste.

The Hadassah University Medical Center has announced a generous gift from the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation of Beverly Hills, California for the Entrance Atrium to the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, currently under construction on Hadassah’s Ein Kerem campus in Jerusalem.

Researchers from the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem have transplanted pigment-containing visual cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, successfully preserving the structure and function of the specialized light-sensitive lining of the eye in an animal model of retinal degeneration.

Immuron and Hadasit are pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of intellectual property (IP) by Immuron from Hadasit in the area of oral immunotherapies, and the establishment of Hadasit as the largest shareholder in Immuron, with a 19.99% stake.  The initial applications of the technology platform associated with this IP will be type 2 diabetes, liver cancer (hepatoma), and hepatitis C.

Today was another mile stone in the history of Hadassah. The new helipad, on top of the CEM building had its first helicopter landing.

Jessa Perin (16) is from Cincinnati. She came to Israel with Birthright last July. On Tuesday July 19, while touring in the north with her group, Jessa became very sick with no visible reason. Her condition deteriorated rapidly and she was taken to a hospital in northern Israel. While Israeli members of her family were trying to find out if she could be transferred to Hadassah, the hospital in the north consulted with Hadassah Ein Kerem regarding the best thing for her. Dr. Rifat Safadi from Hadassah's liver unit decided that she had to be taken to Hadassah immediately, and this happened the same night.Upon arrival, Jessa underwent a series of tests which showed very clearly that she was in real danger unless she was undergoing a liver transplantation.

Mayor Nir Barkat visited the new Hadassah Medical Center Hebrew University Biotechnology Park (JBP-Jerusalem BioPark) Ein-Kerem at Hadassah University Hospital’s Ein Kerem campus today.

Prof. Daniel Shouval, Director of the Liver Unit at the Hadassah Ein-Kerem University Hospital, received last Friday the annual Recognition Award of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL), during the Association's 44^th annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in front of more than 7,000 colleagues from all over the world.

A Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) from the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo was successfully treated for Cataract at Hadassah last night.

Hadassah multidisciplinary team saved the life of a baby with a complete heart block.

Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem mourns the death of Bill Davidson in Detroit . Davidson was one of Hadassah's strongest supporters. Together with his wife Karen, he made a very significant contribution to the establishment of the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospitalization Tower in the Hadassah Ein- Kerem Campus.

The children (and their parents) and the nurses were already waiting when the PM arrived. He was welcomed by Prof. Mor-Yosef and Dr. Yuval Weiss, director of Ein-Kerem hospital. PM Olmert, brought gifts (Mishlo'ach Manot) to the children, and sat among them for half an hour. Ephraim Der'i, father of Hadassah Der'I (2 years old) was very excited when he told that his daughter's life was saved by Hadassah physicians, after no one could diagnose the disease she was suffering from. He said they were hoping to go back home in a few days, and that little Hadassah was celebrating her birthday today. But she was not the only Hadassah who was celebrating a birthday in Purim. We prepared a special cake with greeting in Hebrew: "Hadassah celebrates its 97^th birthday", and PM Olmert cut the slices and tasted it with the children.

"Proper handling of Medical Tourism will bring to Israel much income and foreign currency, improve our status in the world, and especially in the region, contribute to the creation of new jobs, increase the satisfaction of doctors and contribute to their remaining in Israel. All this will raise the level of medicine in Israel," said Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef.

Surgeons at Hadassah hospital in Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem, recently have been operating on their patients using a robot.

This is an upgrade of the original surgical robot, which was originally developed by NASA scientists for operating on astronauts in space.

You wouldn't wish familial dysautonomia (FD) on your worst enemy.

Transplantation of human embryonic stem cells into the brains of a mouse with multiple sclerosis (MS) slowed down significantly the clinical symptoms and pathological manifestations of the disease, Hadassah physicians and scientists reported last week.

A new medication to treat Cystic Fibrosis (CF) has successfully passed the Stage II clinical trials conducted at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Medical Center. Developed by PTC Therapeutics of South Plainfield, NJ, the experimental treatment energizes the production of a deficient protein, causing it to return to its proper function. The successful results, published in the August 21 edition of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, immediately attracted international attention.

Two transplantation surgeries were conducted last night (august 12) at Hadassah Ein-Kerem.

The Hadassah team arrived in Georgia at around midnight last night, and immediately went to the hospital. They found Yehezkeli fully conscious, a short time after he had been operated on.

31 Hadassah research projects received an "A". 12 of them won grants.

At the second Israel Medical Convention held recently at Jerusalem's International Convention Center, some 1,000 physicians and others came to hear eight hours of lectures. 

Hadassah University Medical Center mourns the loss of June Walker.

Congress Innovations in Cardiovascular Interventions (ICI 2008) Leading Technology for Medicine"Dec 07-09, 2008.  Hotel David InterContinental, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Before-and-after videoclips are the best way to impress people about what cutting-edge medicine can do. And this is what happened with the 2,000 delegates to the 94th national convention of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America, held recently in Los Angeles. The Hadassah Medical Organization - the main beneficiary of HWZOA's generous fundraising - sent half-a-dozen senior physicians to update the delegates about two Israeli medical centers' recent achievements.

Hadassah University Medical Center was awarded #1 place in the Healthcare category of Israel's most prestigious PR annual contest, "The Roaring Lion".

Jérusalem le 24 juin 2008/ Le Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Hadassah de Jérusalem et Hadassah France, sous la direction de Mr. Sidney Ohana, sont très heureux d’annoncer leur accord pour l’acquisition d’un nouvel appareil, un «Séquenceur d'ADN» pour le Département de Génétique Humaine. Cet appareil va permettre une recherche très active et productive dans le Département de Recherche Génétique Monique et Jacques Roboh a Hadassah.

Mr. David Brodet has completed his third three-year term as Chairman of the HMO Board of Directors. Mr. Yossi Nitzani will succeed him.

To provide the most advanced surgical care, Hadassah’s Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery has been acquiring sophisticated equipment and instruments, including a state-of-the-art heart-lung machine that can observe coagulation antibodies – the only machine of its kind in Israel. The new machine is better suited to the human body’s physiological system so that the patient experiences far fewer adverse side affects. Other new equipment allows the Department to expand its minimally-invasive surgical procedures. More than 700 new items have been purchased in recent months. 

A team of researchers led by Dr Sarah Sallon, a physician at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, succeeded in growing a 2000 year old date seed. Findings of the team's research are published last Thursday in the prestigious "Science" magazine. They describe the germination process of the seed, its growth and initial genetic analysis.

Hadassah launches today a new air evacuation service for emergency patients from the Middle East and Eastern Europe.  The project will operate in cooperation with ” iMER”, Hadassah’s medical tourism agent and Hadassah’s Emergency Medicine Department, and with “Orange Aviation”, that specializes in executive air transportation. The goal of the new venture is widening the spectrum of services for medical tourists and increasing revenues to the hospital.

"You are a hospital imbued with Jewish values," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem today. "It is a meeting of Jewish values and scientific excellence."

40-year-old Jerusalem area woman receives artificial heart from surgeons at Hadassah Ein Kerem.

Hadassah surgeons successfully transplant liver from Cyprus accident victim to Hadera resident.

Just a few of our accomplishments since the founding of the State of Israel.

There will be changes in the traffic arrangements at Hadassah Ein-Kerem and at the entrance to the Mother and Child Center.

The State Memorial Ceremony in commemoration of the Hadassah  Convoy.  The ceremony will take place in the presence of the minister of health, Mr. Yaakov Ben Yizri, in the Convoy Garden, in the Hadassah Mt. Hospital.   Scopus.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder  (PTSD) and Depression .

TMS is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique which has been used worldwide as an investigational and therapeutic tool over 10 years. In TMS, alternating magnetic field is produced by a coil held in proximity to the patient's head. This magnetic field induces electrical activity in relatively superficial brain regions underneath the coil. Deep TMS makes use of newly developed coils to stimulate deeper brain regions involved in mood disorders and in PTSD.  In addition, the enrollment for the study in Depression is still ongoing and people (18-70) suffering from medication-resistant Depression are invited to call. Positive interim results have been found in this study.

Viable Pregnancy Achieved In Woman Who Carries the Defective BRCA2 Genes After In-Vitro Fertilized Embryos Are Tested and Implanted.

Hadassah opens one-of-a-kind information center to help patients and their families with issues of hospitalization, release, aftercare, and home treatment.

Dr. Yair Birnbaum – Associate Director General and in charge of Medical Services, HMO

Dr. Yuval Weiss – Director, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein-Kerem.

New international research led by Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, has shown that steroids do nothing to help patients in septic shock, and may even harm them, even if given in small doses.

A Phase I safety and efficacy study in healthy patients will begin in February 2008 at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, Israel and Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 --- Hadasit, the technology transfer company of Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, announced today an equally owned joint scientific venture to develop a new orally administered therapeutic treatment for autoimmune diseases.  The new product is a combination therapy that joins together both Hadasit and BWH/HMS intellectual property.  This is the first official cooperation between Hadasit, Hadassah, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

Headed by Prof. Andre Keren, the center will operate within the heart institute at the Hadassah University Hospital in Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem.  It will concentrate on strengthening follow up and treatment in the community.  The goal of the center is to reduce, significantly, the need to hospitalize people with heart failure, to improve their quality of life and to extend their life expectancy.

Hadassah's new Center for Pediatric Genetic and Chronic Diseases was dedicated in the name of Elie Douer and his family at an emotional ceremony at the Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus. Fittingly, it took place in front of the Medical Center's Henrietta Szold Museum, which was open in honor of the occasion. Hadassah Mount Scopus director Prof. Zvi Stern, presiding over the ceremony, noted that the center's temporary premises had once stood at this site. Prof. Eitan Kerem, the director of the new center, shared his dream of establishing such a center, and described the15 years it had taken to bring it to life. Its purpose, he explained, is to provide comprehensive treatment for chronically ill children, as well as their anxious parents and siblings.

President Shimon Peres has named Prof. Oded Abramsky, M.D., Ph.D., former head of the Department of Neurology at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, to head the Israel National Council For Research and Development.

 A treatment developed at Hadassah, still in the research stage, has been tested on 25 multiple sclerosis and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) patients. Professor Dimitrius Karussis, a senior neurologist at Hadassah and the director of the new Multiple Sclerosis Center, working in collaboration with the University of Athens, and Professor Shimon Slavin, the former director of the  Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and the BMT Laboratory at Hadassah, discovered that it is possible to remove stem cells from a patient's bone marrow, to isolate these cells under special conditions and to generate over 50 million cells within two months.

A new Center for Multiple Sclerosis treatment features a multi-disciplinary approach to treating this debilitating disease.

JERUSALEM, November 7, 2007 – A study by Dr. Michal Braun, psycho-oncologist at the Hadassah University Medical Center’s Sharett Institute of Oncology, documents previous anecdotal evidence – that cancer and its treatment have a profound impact on cancer patients’ significant others as well as on the patients themselves. The study scientifically documents the psychological and physical toll spouse caregivers experience and provides guidelines to identify those at risk. The Hadassah research was conducted in collaboration with Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital and the findings published in the current October issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Eight-year-old girl receives historic angioplasty.

The Hebrew University’s Braun School of Public Health and Hadassah Jerusalem were asked by the Health Ministry in Moscow to organize a communal workshop to examine health problems is migratory populations.

Responding to requests from several African countries, The Hadassah Medical Organization of Israel and the Jerusalem AIDS Project have teamed up to implement "Operation AB" – a medical and public health response to support scale up measures to enhance male circumcision (MC) services for HIV prevention in a number of interested countries Africa.

The new center will be interdisciplinary, and may use all kinds of surgery departments. It is the result of a collaboration among industrial developments, academic research and the clinical experience of surgeons.

2500 delegates from all over the USA attended the annual Hadassah Convention, last July, in New York. They came to meet each other, receive information and updates on the myriad of Hadassah activities, look back at a very successful year and outline activities for the coming year.

a multi-casualty event drill with students from the Hebrew University – Hadassah School of Medicine took place this morning, July 12^th.

Hadassah Physicians will try to find out to what extent a stabilized rice bran based nutrient, may affect the immune system of HIV/AIDS patients.

Using the same process that adult female cancer patients can select, a multi-disciplinary team of Hadassah physicians has succeeded to obtain and freeze eggs from the ovarian tissue of  young girls about to undergo chemotherapy, giving them hope to preserve their fertility.

Medical tourism ­ the treatment of foreigners in Israeli medical institutions ­ can be more than tripled within five years to bring in $100 million annually, said Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organization on Monday.

More than 700 people attended the First Israel Medical Conference yesterday in Jerusalem.

SpineAssist, a unique Israeli miniature robot for use in spinal surgery, was demonstrated for the first time at the Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus last week. The robot. developed by the Israeli company Mazor Surgical Technologies, is designed to assist surgeons in more precise implantation of screws and other devices necessary for successful spinal fusion procedures to treat lower back pain. Mazor developers refer to the miniature robot as a medical GPS system that brings surgeons to the requested address.

Prof. Anna Fuks of the department of Pediatric Dentistry in the Hadassah, Hebrew University School of dental medicine, was elected as the world president of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry (IAPD).

The Department of Neurology at the Hadassah University Medical Center Celebrates 70 !!  An International Symposium with World Leading Neurologists will Mark the Occasion.  The Symposium Will Honor Prof. Oded Abramsky who served as Head of the Department for 17 Years.

The department of neurology at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, will celebrate next week its 70^th birthday. To mark this historic milestone, an international symposium on neurology will be held in Jerusalem next week (Sunday – Tuesday, June 3-5).  Some 50 world leading neurologists and scientists will take part in the symposium, including Nobel Prize Laureates Prof. Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion, Haifa, Israel, and Prof. Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of San Francisco, California, USA. Participants will come from the USA, Canada, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Turkey, England, Greece, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Italy and Israel of course.

Israel Medical Convention

Hadassah’s annual convention for discussing issues of medicine and society, in cooperation with the Israel Medical Association and sponsored by the Ha’ir newspaper chain.

A new study has begun in the Biological Psychiatry unit in the psychiatric department at Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center:

Works to tear down the old building of the school of nursing started.

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (WZOA), has received a gift of $75 million.

On Purim, 2012, the centennial of the founding of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, here in Jerusalem we will dedicate Hadassah's new Hospital Tower, which will completely alter our Ein-Kerem campus. This new 11-story facility, which will include all the inpatient departments, will be one of the most innovative and beautiful in Israel. A new parking building will be also constructed, adding some 1,000 parking spaces.

Research and clinical trials have shown that instructing patients on how to use their medications produces positive long-term results, both emotionally and physically. The knowledge heightens their level of responsibility and has a significant impact on the effectiveness of their medication. "Empowering patients by having them participate in managing their medical treatment adds an important layer to the quality of their treatment,” says Prof. Mayer Brezis, head of the Center for Clinical Quality and Safety at the Hadassah University Medical Center. “The more information patients have and the greater role they take in managing their medical treatment, the more successful the outcome."

Prof. Iri Liebergall, Head of Hadassah’s Orthopedic Departments, and Dr. Yoav Matan, Director of the Joint Replacement Center at Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, who performed the world’s first computer-guided hip replacement operation two years ago, have further refined their groundbreaking surgery by replacing electro-optics with electro-magnetic technology that provide for enhanced precision.

Jerusalem, August 3, 2006 – Upending conventional wisdom, which views the immune system’s primary function as destruction of foreign invaders, a team of Hadassah researchers has discovered that the immune system can also build.. This previously unknown function plays a major role in fetal development and pregnancy, with important implications for conditions that cause pre-eclampsia and miscarriages. Their breakthrough findings were published this week in Nature Medicene, the prestigious scientific journal.

The Hadassah ambulance keeps going to Nahariyah every morning.

The fighting continues! Yesterday, four Israeli soldiers were killed: two pilots following the crash of an Apache helicopter, and a commander and soldier in a land battle in Bint Jbail.

Oshik Feller is the new director of  Human Resources Division at the Hadassah Medical Organization, the second largest employer in Jerusalem, with more than 5,000 employees.

The e-mails being sent by Dr. Cardello Ian are in no way connected to the Hadassah Medical Organization.  Dr. Cardello is not on staff at Hadassah and does not represent Hadassah in any way.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been hospitalized at Hadassah for 39 days now, after experiencing a brain episode. He has been comatose since that time and continues to remain so.

Two poles that were conducted by the "Dahaf Institute", headed by Mina Tsemach, give a very high rate to the quality of the medical treatment given by the Hadassah physicians to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and to the credibility of the announcements Hadassah issues in this respect.

The Hadassah hospitals received 65 injured from Amona.

The month of October is dedicated to the dissemination of information relating to early detection of breast cancer.  Early testing and prompt follow up has been shown to be extremely effective in cure rates.

Hadassah, Brigham and Women’s and Victoria Augusta hospitals partner in three-way emergency medicine project.

Last night, around midnight shots were fired at a car in Gush Katif. The shots killed Rachel Kol, a Hadassah employee in the Neurology Laboratory for the last 20 years, and her husband, newspaper reporter and communications and public relations person Dov Kol. The two were returning from a family gathering at her sister’s home in Ganei Tal.

Hadasit Medical Research Services, the technology transfer subsidiary of Hadasit Medical Organization, today announced the formation of an Advisory Board that will assist in identifying new markets in North America for its diagnostic and treatment technologies. 

The Hadassah Medical Organization, which has achieved international acclaim for promoting peace in the Middle East region by providing equal treatment to Palestinians and Israelis, has been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem have discovered that 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.

A Hadassah University Medical Center research team has developed a vaccine that significantly strengthens the body’s immune system against the autoimmune sequela of HIV infection, a breakthrough that could dramatically make an impact in the treatment of AIDS patients. It is now evident that although treatment with the cocktail of medications kills the virus, the immune system continues to kill healthy cells; this research focuses on developing a vaccine that would arrest this autoimmune destructive process. The results of this study were published in the latest issue of the prestigious Journal of Clinical Virology. 

The Hadassah Medical Organization and the Hebrew University, already partners in five schools of allied medical professions, have come together again to establish a biotechnology park at Hadassah Ein Kerem to provide incubator conditions for startup companies in the life sciences.

Prof. Oded Abramski, head of the department of Neurology was elected as a member of the American Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. This is one of the most prestigious institutions in world medicine, and the election process is very long and complicated.

Buiding a better wordl through medicine (III),  United State - Israel Solidarity Medical Conference, November 19-22 2004 - Jerusalem.

Hapto-Biotech, an Israeli start-up company, and New York-based Ortec International Inc., have joined forces to develop a bandage capable of healing wounds and regenerating tissue, using a unique combination of peptides and collagen. The new technology could also have an important impact on orthopedic and dental procedures, as well as for the cosmetics industry.

A group of Native Americans visited Hadassah on Sunday the Third of October.

About three weeks ago, 31-year-old Igor Leib was seriously wounded in the chest during a terrorist attack in a Moscow subway station. On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 19th, he arrived at Hadassah-Ein Kerem for further medical treatment accompanied by his mother, who was also wounded in the attack, and his father. Leib and his mother Zoya, were examined thoroughly in the trauma unit before they were admitted to the department of surgery.

At the inauguration of Hadassah's new day care center of the Sidney Weisner Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy today, Prof. Shimon Slavin, head of the department, described an innovative treatment for cancer patients who have previously undergone chemotherapy, surgery and/ or radiotherapy.

19/05/2008

Speaker of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi Leads Non-Partisan Delegation to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. 

13/08/2008

National Science Foundation awards 12 of 20 research grants to Hadassah researchers.

22/07/2008