http://www.hadassahinternational.org/news/ News from HadassahInternational.org It is often said that while Israel is not endowed with a large supply of natural resources, we are rich in brain power. This has been proven repeatedly in the last few decades as creative ideas continuously emerge from the minds of Israeli scientists and find their way to the marketplace. Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Using placental mesenchymal stem cells--which proved effective in pre-clinical trials--physicians at the Hadassah University Medical Center rescued the life of a seven-year-old Romanian girl whose two bone marrow transplants were not triggering the repair needed to save her life. Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT With 80 percent of childhood cancer victims cured of the disease today, the need to address the complex issues that the young survivors face in the aftermath of treatment led the Hadassah University Medical Center to establish a Childhood Cancer Survivor Clinic. Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Brenda Godfrey, who immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom 35 years ago and recently was a post-surgery patient at the Hadassah University Medical Center, praised her new temporary home in the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower. Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Leaving the crowded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) on the fourth floor, the first young patients, on beds and in incubators, were moved into the new spacious PICU three floors above in the Hadassah University Medical Center Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Hadassah’s Heart Failure and Heart Muscle Disease Center reaches out to the community to bridge the gap between hospital-based and community-based medicine. Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Our physicians are “hands-on, world-renowned professionals who work with patients, and when they do their R & D (research and development), they are much more focused to create solutions for the problems they encounter on a daily basis,” Chief Executive Officer Ophir Shahaf of Hadasit Bio-Holdings, the technology transfer financing arm of the Hadassah University Medical Center, told BioTuesdays.com in an April 17 interview. Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT In addition to putting in long days treating patients and doing research, a large percentage of Hadassah University Medical Center physicians are officers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Pediatric Surgeon Dr. Eitan Gross is an example. Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Dr. Peter Vernon Van Heerden, an Australian intensive care specialist with Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, and a professor at the University of Western Australia, will shortly be moving to Israel and joining the medical staff of the Hadassah University Medical Center. Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Wed, 09 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Wed, 09 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Canadian Professor Gil Troy was running a marathon in Jerusalem when he landed in Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus with a torn femur. “Hadassah Medical Center remains one of Israel’s miracles,” he says. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Despite the fact that a terrorist’s bomb exploded in her face, Hadassah University Medical Center’s Dr. Mirela Siderer, a gynecologist at the Clinic for Women’s Health in Ashkelon, has been able to return to work, thanks to the surgical expertise at Hadassah. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT A new interdisciplinary center for the treatment of epilepsy in children and adults has opened at the Hadassah University Medical Center Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Young patients and their parents from all sectors of Jerusalem’s population attended the 10th annual conference of the Hadassah Juvenile Diabetes Clinic, an event initiated by Dr. David Zangen, Director of the Pediatric Endocrinology and Juvenile Diabetes Unit at Hadassah Hospital-Mt. Scopus. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Hadassah University Medical Center researchers have identified genes unique to a group of Orthodox women in Israel who conceived naturally after age 45, which generate an anti-aging effect. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT El THR-18 está diseñado para permitir que el tPA disuelva los coágulos de sangre fácilmente, extendiendo el corto tiempo de su ventana terapéutica y disminuyendo efectos secundarios que puedan ser mortales. Actualmente está atravesando la Fase IIA de ensayos clínicos en varios hospitales en Israel, incluyendo Hadassah, y se encuentra esperando la aprobación reguladora de Europa y la India. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Because laughter is magical medicine, the Hadassah University Medical Center has a dynamic Medical Clown Program, which puts a smile on the faces of its pediatric patients. Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Thrombotech Ltd., a biotechnology company based on cutting-edge stroke research at the Hadassah University Medical Center, has received approval from the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand clinical trials to the US for its lead product, THR-18. Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT As the first patients settle into the Hadassah University Medical Center’s Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower, Moshe Levy, Project Architect, Spector-Amisar Architects, reflects on what the building communicates: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT