Hadassah International eBulletin - January / February 2012Print
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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.
With less than 8 weeks to moving-in day, the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at the Hadassah University Medical Center is crane- less!!!
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.
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.
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."
Yael, a speech therapist whose previous three children were born very small, was able to add healthy twins to her family, thanks in part to the intervention of Prof. Drorith Hochner-Celnikier, high-risk pregnancy expert and Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus.
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.
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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.With less than 8 weeks to moving-in day, the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at the Hadassah University Medical Center is crane- less!!!
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.
 Prof. Ephrat Levy-Lahad (left) and Dr. David Zangen |
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.
New Kidney Recipient: Happy and Grateful
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."
In Israel's leading daily newspaper,Yediot Acharonot, Kamell Husseini, a founder and manager of a Palestinian public relations and communications firm in the West Bank city of Ramallah, praised the medical care his mother received at the Hadassah University Medical Center.
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.
An innovative procedure to remove cancerous tumors from a patient's gastrointestinal tract has been introduced at the Hadassah University Medical Center's Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases by Prof. Hans- Wolf Sievert, head of Gastroenterology at Germany's Oldenburg-University Hospital and a renowned expert in this field.
Research conducted at the Hadassah University Medical Center has shown that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is more effective than drug therapy in treating and preventing the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
A new "club" for pregnant women and new mothers has opened in both Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem and Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus.
 Prof. Drorith Hochner-Celnikier |
Yael, a speech therapist whose previous three children were born very small, was able to add healthy twins to her family, thanks in part to the intervention of Prof. Drorith Hochner-Celnikier, high-risk pregnancy expert and Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus.
 Dr. Sagit Arbel-Alon (center), Director of Bat Ami with
nurse Nava Braverman (right) and an emergency room
nurse Photo: Avi Hayun |
Hadassah Makes Headlines In Australia
As the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem prepares to celebrate its centenary, The Australian Jewish News takes a look at the history and symbolism of an Israeli icon. Read the Australian Jewish News article.
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.
Dear Family and Friends of Hadassah, Recently, Prof. Tamir Ben-Hur, Head of the Department of Neurology, made an outstanding presentation to HMO's medical management.
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