Head Department of  Genetics

and Metabolic Diseases

Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Tel: 972-2-67 79197

Fax: 972-2- 67 77499

The Department of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases in Hadassah hospital in Ein-Kerem offers comprehensive services designed to provide reliable and innovative genetic diagnosis, genetic counseling for genetic disorders, as well as treatment and diagnosis of patients suffering from metabolic diseases.

These genetic services include:

- Diagnosis and counseling for hereditary diseases in children and adults.

- Counseling for families and individuals before marriage.

- Counseling and tests for familial cancer (breast cancer etc.).

- Carrier detection tests for common hereditary disease, in the general population or in specific ethnic groups.

- Prenatal diagnosis: Amniocenthesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) and fetal blood sampling.

- Blood tests for pregnant women for detecting pregnancies with high risk for Down Syndrome etc. in the first trimester (Nuchal Translucency and indicators in the mother’s blood) and second trimester (Alpha-Feto-Protein and other indicators in the mother’s blood).