http://www.hadassahinternational.org/news/ News from HadassahInternational.org At the end of July, for the first time in Israel and only the fifth time in the world, a woman with a heart transplant delivered healthy twins—at the Hadassah Medical Center. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), under the leadership of its president, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, has donated one million dollars for a Trauma Intensive Care Unit at the Hadassah Medical Center. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Dr. Uzi Izhar, head of the Hadassah Medical Center’s General Thoracic Surgery Unit, together with Dr. Mark Ginsburg, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (New York) have performed Hadassah’s first transplant of a pacemaker into a man’s diaphragm, which enabled him to breathe without the ventilator he had been attached to for a decade. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT When during Sabbath dinner, their father’s speech suddenly became garbled and he complained of weakness on his right side, his daughters rushed him to the Hadassah Medical Center’s Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine, where Hadassah’s cutting-edge clot-bursting procedure saved his life, leaving no neurological damage. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Hadasit, the Hadassah Medical Center’s technology transfer company, has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with Bezalel Labs Ltd., the technology transfer company of Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, to develop and commercialize products based on students' product designs. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Teenagers from Israel’s maximum security juvenile prison brought joy to Hadassah’s young cancer patients when the paper-mâché lion sculpture they built was delivered to its new home in Hadassah Hospital’s Dyna and Fala Weinstock Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology. When the 14-18-year-old prison inmates were told about this Department, they embraced the art project, understanding that it was an opportunity for them to do something positive. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT More newborns are leaving the Hadassah Medical Center in a car seat, thanks to a cooperative project between Hadassah, a private taxi company, “Hadassah Taxis,” and Beterem, the National Center for Child Safety and Health. The idea for this collaboration was triggered by the results of a three-week survey conducted by Beterem and Hadassah which revealed that 5 out of 56 mothers were taking their babies home without a safety seat. Beterem reports that car seats decrease accident deaths among babies by 71 percent. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Mary Stuchbery, the “Hadassah Connection” in New Zealand for decades, was a successful business person and philanthropist who led annual tours to Israel, beginning in 1947, supporting Israel’s economy and promoting good will. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Hadassah, Komen for the Cure, and the municipality of Jerusalem present the first-ever Israel Race for the Cure®--a highlight of the October 25-29 Israel Mission Delegation to help ignite the breast cancer movement in Israel. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT For the first time in Israel, two robotic, laparoscopic hysterectomies were performed by a Hadassah Medical Center surgeon in June while being broadcast live to the Tannenbaum Hall at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem, where gynecologists from all over the country were watching. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT The once dark and gloomy walls in the corridor of Hadassah Hospital Ein-Kerem’s Pediatrics Department have undergone a complete “face lift,” thanks to the generosity of Artist Ilan Shaul, who brightened them with vivid wall paintings. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT Dr. Snunit Shoham, a patient with a rare, life-threatening infection in her face, returned to the Hadassah Medical Center to thank the team of physicians who saved her and to present a check of 100,000 shekels to Hadassah. "You were there for us as a supporter when we had no where to go and no chance to come out of a real disaster," said her husband, Yaacov Shoham, to Professor Allon E. Moses, Chairman of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, who orchestrated his wife’s complicated treatment regimen. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT During the course of each 24 hours, the Hadassah Medical Center is the home of nonstop, life enhancing and life-saving activities. Here are some statistics: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT When a car arrived at the Hadassah Medical Center’s Ben Gurion Plaza with a pregnant young woman already in labor and beginning to give birth, Pnina Sharon, Head Nurse of the Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine, rushed outside to help, while Hadassah’s obstetricians were called out for an emergency delivery. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT “You saved my son’s life,” the father said, “and I came to thank you. More than that, I came to help Hadassah.” These were the words of a young Israeli Arab, in traditional Moslem dress, who, before leaving the hospital, stopped to express his appreciation. Osnat Moskowitz, Director of the Hadassah Medical Center’s Development, Donors and Events Department, relates: “I looked at the little boy in the carriage, and saw the earnestness on the faces of his parents and I knew that medicine is a bridge to peace.” Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT At 2.00 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, the Hadassah Medical Center installed a new $1.7 million Cyclotron System—one of a handful worldwide. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT When a little girl experienced a swollen nose after a fall, her mother brought her to the emergency room, worried that perhaps the base of the skull was injured too. As it turned out, her nose was swollen because a battery was lodged inside! Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT A Hadassah neurologist has found that patients with severe pain that seems to have no physical origin can be helped with hypnosis. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT A Hadassah neurologist has helped patients break their vicious cycles of pain through withdrawal from pain medications and recognition of certain pain syndromes. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT Dr. Yoram Ben Yehuda, head of Hadassah’s pediatric emergency unit, has taken the lead in protecting children throughout Israel. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT