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31-Jan-2011
This March, Young Hadassah Jerusalem will celebrate life through art with an enchanting evening of dinner and dancing.
31-Jan-2011
Expanding its borders and its reach, this March, Young Hadassah International will hold its first ever regional conference in Latin America as a result of several successful European weekends.
28-Jan-2011
Since 2008, when the Hadassah Medical Center reached out to the Arab population, urging them to register in its Bone Marrow Registry, Dr. Amal Bishara, Outreach Project Director, has traveled to 60 Arab communities and brought in 9,000 registrants, resulting in six donations of life-saving bone marrow.
28-Jan-2011
Last April, a five-year-old girl fell off a ladder she had climbed with her father to watch the Israel Independence Day fireworks from the roof of her home. Landing on her head, she suffered a life-threatening head injury, which put her in a coma. Thanks to quick action by Hadassah’s Pediatric Neurosurgery team, today, she is recovering in a rehabilitation center, with prospects for a bright future.
28-Jan-2011
The Hadassah Medical Center will shortly open an Epilepsy Center to treat children and adults with this debilitating seizure disease, caused by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain.
28-Jan-2011
Regularly in the news for medical firsts, Hadassah is making headlines with a first of a radically different order. Its medical center in Jerusalem has become the world’s first hospital with its own company—Hadasit Bio-Holdings (HBL)—traded on a national stock exchange, setting a global precedent in financing biotechnology and in facilitating new ways to heal.
28-Jan-2011
Dear Friends, As you know, over the years we have acquired an international reputation for excellence, so much so that patients come to us from all over the world for care and treatment. We are also often recognized for our international outreach efforts to nearby neighbors and people in far flung places.
21-Jan-2011
Dear Friends, Many times in the course of the year, Hadassah saves the lives of people whose conditions were so serious it didn’t appear they would survive.
17-Jan-2011
Researchers in the Department of Oral Medicine at the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Dental Medicine have found that the incidence of parotid gland malignant tumors has quadrupled since 1970.
17-Jan-2011
A study conducted by researchers at the Hadassah Medical Center reveals that a large majority of Israelis support “sin taxes”—charging people more in supplementary and private health premiums if they don’t engage in a healthy lifestyle.