Hadassah opens one-of-a-kind information center to help patients and their families with issues of hospitalization, release, aftercare, and home treatment.

40-year-old Jerusalem area woman receives artificial heart from surgeons at Hadassah Ein Kerem

New international research led by Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, has shown that steroids do nothing to help patients in septic shock, and may even harm them, even if given in small doses.

Jerusalem, Israel and Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 --- Hadasit, the technology transfer company of Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, announced today an equally owned joint scientific venture to develop a new orally administered therapeutic treatment for autoimmune diseases.  The new product is a combination therapy that joins together both Hadasit and BWH/HMS intellectual property.  This is the first official cooperation between Hadasit, Hadassah, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

A treatment developed at Hadassah, still in the research stage, has been tested on 25 multiple sclerosis and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) patients. Professor Dmitrius Karussis, a senior neurologist at Hadassah and the director of the new Multiple Sclerosis Center, working in collaboration with the University of Athens, and Professor Shimon Slavin, the former director of the  Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and the BMT Laboratory at Hadassah, discovered that it is possible to remove stem cells from a patient's bone marrow, to isolate these cells under special conditions and to generate over 50 million cells within two months. As part of this process, mesenchymal cells (mature stem cells) are extracted from the patient and transplanted by a lumbar injection in the spinal column (into the spinal fluid of the central nervous system), with each patient serving as his/her own donor. The transplanted cells are marked in order to track and verify that they reach the intended destination in the patient's body.

There will be changes in the traffic arrangements at

Hadassah Ein-Kerem

and at the entrance to the Mother and Child Center

The State Memorial Ceremony in commemoration of the Hadassah  Convoy.  The ceremony will take place in the presence of the minister of health, Mr. Yaakov Ben Yizri, in the Convoy Garden, in the Hadassah Mt. Hospital.   Scopus      

Viable Pregnancy Achieved In Woman Who Carries the Defective BRCA2 Genes After In-Vitro Fertilized Embryos Are Tested and Implanted

Hadassah surgeons successfully transplant liver from Cyprus accident victim to Hadera resident.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder  (PTSD) and Depression

TMS is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique which has been used worldwide as an investigational and therapeutic tool over 10 years. In TMS, alternating magnetic field is produced by a coil held in proximity to the patient's head. This magnetic field induces electrical activity in relatively superficial brain regions underneath the coil. Deep TMS makes use of newly developed coils to stimulate deeper brain regions involved in mood disorders and in PTSD.

Eight-year-old girl receives historic angioplasty

JERUSALEM, November 7, 2007 – A study by Dr. Michal Braun, psycho-oncologist at the Hadassah University Medical Center’s Sharett Institute of Oncology, documents previous anecdotal evidence – that cancer and its treatment have a profound impact on cancer patients’ significant others as well as on the patients themselves. The study scientifically documents the psychological and physical toll spouse caregivers experience and provides guidelines to identify those at risk. The Hadassah research was conducted in collaboration with Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital and the findings published in the current October issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The Hebrew University’s Braun School of Public Health and Hadassah Jerusalem were asked by the Health Ministry in Moscow to organize a communal workshop to examine health problems is migratory populations.

Headed by Prof. Andrey Keren, the center will operate within the heart institute at the Hadassah University Hospital in Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem.  It will concentrate on strengthening follow up and treatment in the community.  The goal of the center is to reduce, significantly, the need to hospitalize people with heart failure, to improve their quality of life and to extend their life expectancy.

Dr. Yair Birnbaum – Associate Director General and in charge of Medical Services, HMO

Dr. Yuval Weiss – Director, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein-Kerem.

Hadassah's new Center for Pediatric Genetic and Chronic Diseases was dedicated in the name of Elie Douer and his family at an emotional ceremony at the Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus. Fittingly, it took place in front of the Medical Center's Henrietta Szold Museum, which was open in honor of the occasion. Hadassah Mount Scopus director Prof. Zvi Stern, presiding over the ceremony, noted that the center's temporary premises had once stood at this site. Prof. Eitan Kerem, the director of the new center, shared his dream of establishing such a center, and described the15 years it had taken to bring it to life. Its purpose, he explained, is to provide comprehensive treatment for chronically ill children, as well as their anxious parents and siblings

New walking path offers scenic connection between hospital property, the village of Ein Kerem, and the springs of Ein Hindak.

  Construction works at the site of The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower are starting these days at Hadassah Ein-Kerem. Heavy Traffic is expected when trucks will remove construction waste from the construction site in the campus center.

A new Center for Multiple Sclerosis treatment features a multi-disciplinary approach to treating this debilitating disease

The new center will be interdisciplinary, and may use all kinds of surgery departments. It is the result of a collaboration among industrial developments, academic research and the clinical experience of surgeons.

The new Hadassah Auditorium was opened in the Ein Kerem Campus. Holding 223 seats, the new auditorium is spacious, functional and equipped with cutting edge audio-visual equipment.

2500 delegates from all over the USA attended the annual Hadassah Convention, last July, in New York. They came to meet each other, receive information and updates on the myriad of Hadassah activities, look back at a very successful year and outline activities for the coming year.

The month of October is dedicated to the dissemination of information relating to early detection of breast cancer.  Early testing and prompt followup has been shown to be extremely effective in cure rates.

The Hadassah hospitals in Jerusalem have been using recently innovative Electro-Magnetic Technology in computer guided joint replacement surgeries. This new technology further improves the precision of the procedure, and may also shorten the time of recovery and hospitalization.

The birth of a healthy baby boy last week was not an unusual event at Hadassah, but somewhat unusual – and a cause for great celebration – for his mother, father and siblings. Thanks to Hadassah's medical and research team led by Prof. Azaria Rein, Head of the Pediatric Cardiology Unit, the newest addition to their family was born with a healthy heart like his six-year-old brother, but unlike their eight-year-old brother who had a pacemaker implanted immediately after he was born.

A Hadassah-University of Pennsylvania research team has developed a peptide that could save the lives and improve the treatment of people stricken with ischemic strokes. Their findings, published recently in the prestigious medical journal, Nature Neuroscience, indicate they have found a way to bypass the serious side effects of the thrombolytic agent tPA, a medication that dissolves clotting.

SpineAssist, a unique Israeli miniature robot for use in spinal surgery, was demonstrated for the first time at the Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus last week. The robot. developed by the Israeli company Mazor Surgical Technologies, is designed to assist surgeons in more precise implantation of screws and other devices necessary for successful spinal fusion procedures to treat lower back pain. Mazor developers refer to the miniature robot as a medical GPS system that brings surgeons to the requested address.

Prof. Iri Liebergall, Head of Hadassah’s Orthopedic Departments, and Dr. Yoav Matan, Director of the Joint Replacement Center at Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, who performed the world’s first computer-guided hip replacement operation two years ago, have further refined their groundbreaking surgery by replacing electro-optics with electro-magnetic technology that provide for enhanced precision.

Research and clinical trials have shown that instructing patients on how to use their medications produces positive long-term results, both emotionally and physically. The knowledge heightens their level of responsibility and has a significant impact on the effectiveness of their medication. "Empowering patients by having them participate in managing their medical treatment adds an important layer to the quality of their treatment,” says Prof. Mayer Brezis, head of the Center for Clinical Quality and Safety at the Hadassah University Medical Center. “The more information patients have and the greater role they take in managing their medical treatment, the more successful the outcome."

On Purim, 2012, the centennial of the founding of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, here in Jerusalem we will dedicate Hadassah's new Hospital Tower, which will completely alter our Ein-Kerem campus. This new 11-story facility, which will include all the inpatient departments, will be one of the most innovative and beautiful in Israel. A new parking building will be also constructed, adding some 1,000 parking spaces.

Works to tear down the old building of the school of nursing started.

A new study has begun in the Biological Psychiatry unit in the psychiatric department at Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center:

THE FIRST GERRY SCHWARTZ  & HEATHER REISMAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PEDIATRIC CHRONIC DISEASES

Will take place on April 26^th – 27^th,
in the Hyatt Regency hotel in Jerusalem.

Israel Medical Convention

Hadassah’s annual convention for discussing issues of medicine and society, in cooperation with the Israel Medical Association and sponsored by the Ha’ir newspaper chain

Jerusalem, August 3, 2006 – Upending conventional wisdom, which views the immune system’s primary function as destruction of foreign invaders, a team of Hadassah researchers has discovered that the immune system can also build.. This previously unknown function plays a major role in fetal development and pregnancy, with important implications for conditions that cause pre-eclampsia and miscarriages. Their breakthrough findings were published this week in Nature Medicene, the prestigious scientific journal.

The Department of Neurology at the Hadassah University Medical Center Celebrates 70 !!

An International Symposium with World Leading Neurologists will Mark the Occasion

The Symposium Will Honor Prof. Oded Abramsky who served as Head of the Department for 17 Years

The department of neurology at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, will celebrate next week its 70^th birthday. To mark this historic milestone, an international symposium on neurology will be held in Jerusalem next week (Sunday – Tuesday, June 3-5).  Some 50 world leading neurologists and scientists will take part in the symposium, including Nobel Prize Laureates Prof. Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion, Haifa, Israel, and Prof. Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of San Francisco, California, USA. Participants will come from the USA, Canada, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Turkey, England, Greece, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Italy and Israel of course.

Using the same process that adult female cancer patients can select, a multi-disciplinary team of Hadassah physicians has succeeded to obtain and freeze eggs from the ovarian tissue of  young girls about to undergo chemotherapy, giving them hope to preserve their fertility.

Prof. Anna Fuks of the department of Pediatric Dentistry in the Hadassah, Hebrew University School of dental medicine, was elected as the world president of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry (IAPD).

Hadasit, Hadassah’s technology transfer company, acquired the rights to a diagnostic devise originally developed by Oridion Systems Ltd. Together with Dr. Uri Geiger, and Oridion Systems Ltd., Hadasit established a daughter company – Breath ID (2006) – to continue developing the instrument for the diagnosis of infectious liver diseases, enabling physicians throughout the world to enlarge the scope of diagnosing infectious liver diseases. Using the new methodology, 150 Hepatitis C patients were checked at Hadassah – and another 300 outside of Israel – to date.

The fighting continues! Yesterday, four Israeli soldiers were killed: two pilots following the crash of an Apache helicopter, and a commander and soldier in a land battle in Bint Jbail.

Oshik Feller is the new director of  Human Resources Division at the Hadassah Medical Organization, the second largest employer in Jerusalem, with more than 5,000 employees.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been hospitalized at Hadassah for 39 days now, after experiencing a brain episode. He has been comatose since that time and continues to remain so.

The e-mails being sent by Dr. Cardello Ian are in no way connected to the Hadassah Medical Organization.  Dr. Cardello is not on staff at Hadassah and does not represent Hadassah in any way.

Two poles that were conducted by the "Dahaf Institute", headed by Mina Tsemach, give a very high rate to the quality of the medical treatment given by the Hadassah physicians to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and to the credibility of the announcements Hadassah issues in this respect.

Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef: "The condition of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continues to be severe and stable. "

The operation of PM Sharon was completed about two hours ago. The intra carnial pressure was relieved, and some of the blood clots were drained. There was no active bleeding and intra carnial returned to normal.

At 9:30AM this morning, Prof. Mor-Yosef made the following statement to the media

At the inauguration of Hadassah's new day care center of the Sidney Weisner Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy today, Prof. Shimon Slavin, head of the department, described an innovative treatment for cancer patients who have previously undergone chemotherapy, surgery and/ or radiotherapy.

A Hadassah University Medical Center research team has developed a vaccine that significantly strengthens the body’s immune system against the autoimmune sequela of HIV infection, a breakthrough that could dramatically make an impact in the treatment of AIDS patients. It is now evident that although treatment with the cocktail of medications kills the virus, the immune system continues to kill healthy cells; this research focuses on developing a vaccine that would arrest this autoimmune destructive process. The results of this study were published in the latest issue of the prestigious Journal of Clinical Virology.

Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem have discovered that a simple blood test might enable psychiatrists to predict if a person will develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), while still in the emergency room, a few hours after the traumatic event occurred.

About three weeks ago, 31-year-old Igor Leib was seriously wounded in the chest during a terrorist attack in a Moscow subway station. On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 19^th, he arrived at Hadassah-Ein Kerem for further medical treatment accompanied by his mother, who was also wounded in the attack, and his father. Leib and his mother Zoya, were examined thoroughly in the trauma unit before they were admitted to the department of surgery.

A group of Native Americans visited Hadassah on Sunday the Third of October.

Hapto-Biotech, an Israeli start-up company, and New York-based Ortec International Inc., have joined forces to develop a bandage capable of healing wounds and regenerating tissue, using a unique combination of peptides and collagen. The new technology could also have an important impact on orthopedic and dental procedures, as well as for the cosmetics industry

Buiding a better wordl through medicine (III)
United State - Israel Solidarity Medical Conference

November 19-22 2004 - Jerusalem

Prof. Brian Glenville, MS FRCS, most recently Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at London’s St. Mary's Hospital has been appointed Head of Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Hadassah University Hospital in Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem.

Hadasit Medical Research Services, the technology transfer subsidiary of Hadasit Medical Organization, today announced the formation of an Advisory Board that will assist in identifying new markets in North America for its diagnostic and treatment technologies. 

The first shipment of blankets, towels and clothes left Hadassah hospital today on its way to south east Asia. The initiative came from Asher Dayan, A few weeks ago, Asher and a few colleagues started a Tzedaka operation in the hospital, where employees were called to bring clothes for other Hadassah employees in need. This operation is handled very quietly obviously, with no publicity at all. When the tragedy in South East Asia occured, Asher came up with the idea of enlarging the operation. Hadassah employees responded very positively. Also, blankets and towels were given by the hospital as well as shirts from the giftshop. There are collection spots in both hospital and the packaging is handled by the recycling team.

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Last night, around midnight shots were fired at a car in Gush Katif. The shots killed Rachel Kol, a Hadassah employee in the Neurology Laboratory for the last 20 years, and her husband, newspaper reporter and communications and public relations person Dov Kol. The two were returning from a family gathering at her sister’s home in Ganei Tal.

Hadassah, Brigham and Women’s and Victoria Augusta hospitals partner in three-way emergency medicine project