Medical News
5-Mar-2010
The Hadassah Medical Center, which joined the elite group of the world’s leading medical centers that employ the advanced remote robotic technology of the da Vinci® Surgical System, has just celebrated the first anniversary of its introduction into Hadassah’s operating rooms.
5-Mar-2010
For the first time in Israel, men with the HIV virus can have healthy children, thanks to an innovative treatment offered at the Hadassah Medical Center’s AIDS Center.
5-Mar-2010
What could medical clowns do amidst the devastating suffering in the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake? “It’s all about finding connections between people, being sensitive to them, and thus allowing them to open themselves emotionally,” explains Medical Clown Dudi Barashi, member of the Hadassah Medical Center’s global outreach team for the past six years.
5-Mar-2010
“We were performing so much surgery--about 320 operations in 2 weeks--that sterilization was a real challenge. But I was determined to give patients the standard of care we had at home, at Hadassah,” explains Reuven Gelfond, Hadassah Operating Room Nurse and member of the Israeli rescue team in Haiti.
5-Mar-2010
Researchers at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus and the Hebrew University have discovered that our hands play a crucial part in perception of the space within the reach of our hands.
4-Feb-2010
"As an Israeli and as a Jerusalemite, I have a special place in my heart for Hadassah. One cannot think of Jerusalem without thinking of Hadassah, without thinking of its excellent health services." -- Dalia Itzik, Member of Israel’s Knesset and former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
4-Feb-2010
The 2009 Nancy Falchuk Nursing Scholarship recognized four nurses for their leadership roles in patient education and wound treatment.
4-Feb-2010
A Cypriot woman who discovered at 28 weeks of pregnancy that she was carrying twin fetuses—with one growing outside of her womb--was saved along with her babies by a multidisciplinary team of Hadassah physicians. This marks only the second time in known medical history that babies in this situation have been delivered successfully.
3-Feb-2010
A multidisciplinary team of physicians from the Hadassah Medical Center has discovered that a particular pattern of gene expression is present shortly after delivery in women who suffer from persistent postpartum depression (PD).
2-Feb-2010
During the Israel Rescue Mission to Haiti following the earthquake, a Hadassah Medical Center obstetrician delivered the Israeli field hospital’s first baby and the mother, in gratitude, named him “Israel.” When the surgeons ran out of medical screws needed to mend limb fractures, a Hadassah operating room nurse located the remnants of a local factory and, in searching through the ruins, found exactly the machine he needed to transform the medical nails he had into screws.
