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6-Jan-2012
The Hadassah University Medical Center is participating in a clinical trial of a vaccine that "trains" the immune system to seek and destroy malignant cells that have invaded the body.
6-Jan-2012
One in four adult women in the West is sexually attacked during her lifetime. A similar number of girls suffer sexual abuse in childhood, along with one in six boys. Very few seek medical, psychological or emotional help, and even fewer file police complaints.
6-Jan-2012
With less than 8 weeks to moving-in day, the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at the Hadassah University Medical Center is crane-less!!!
5-Jan-2012
A 2008 discovery of a genetic mutation causing muscle breakdown by a Hadassah University Medical Center team, led by Prof. Orly Elpeleg, head of the Department of Human Genetics, has resulted in the saving of a three-year-old child's life at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
5-Jan-2012
A grateful Palestinian from Beit Lechem received a new kidney at the Hadassah University Medical Center, thanks to a donor organ from an Israeli family whose relative died of a stroke. The donor family members said they felt privileged to participate in "creating a mosaic of peace.”
3-Jan-2012
A teenage girl, who came to the Hadassah University Medical Center for help when she did not go through puberty, led to the discovery of a gene that plays a major role in ovarian development. The three-year investigation was conducted by a joint team from Hadassah and Shaare Zedek Medical Center, led by Dr. David Zangen, head of Hadassah’s Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, and Prof. Ephrat Levy-Lahad, head of the Medical Genetics Institute at Shaare Zedek.
3-Jan-2012
The Hadassah University Medical Center’s Pulmonary Institute is an innovator in laboratory research aimed at reversal of pulmonary fibrosis, the debilitating formation of excess fibrous connective tissue in the lung.
2-Jan-2012
Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center have completed a clinical trial which has successfully demonstrated the efficacy of gene therapy in restoring vision to patients with Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a genetic condition which causes severe visual impairment and eventual blindness.
2-Jan-2012
Dear Family and Friends of Hadassah, The revolving doors at the end of the floors on the lower levels of Hadassah-Ein Kerem that connect the hospital and the Faculty of Medicine are constantly in motion. I am pleased to be one of those that uses the revolving door, and that after only two months, I am among the doctors and scientists who hurry back and forth between the two institutions as if they were one entity
26-Dec-2011
Dear Family and Friends of Hadassah, You may have seen the article called “The Hadassah Model” that caused quite a stir when it appeared a couple of weeks ago in Yedioth Achronoth, a popular Hebrew daily.