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| Juvenile Prisoners for Children with Cancer at Hadassah | | 24/08/2010 | Inspired by a Hebrew children's book "There are no Such Lions" (written by Amy Rubinger), the teenagers decided to create a lion sculpture made of paper mache and give it to the children in the Department of Pediatric Oncology Hematology at Hadassah. |
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| Infants' Safe Transportation – A Unique Cooperation of Hadassah, "Beterem" Organization and Hadassah Taxis Station | | 24/08/2010 | For the first time in Israel, taxi drivers will install in their taxis safety seats for newborns, who were released from the hospital. This is a joint initiative of the Department of Obstetrics, the Department of Neonatology and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Hadassah, "Beterem" Organization (The National Center for Children's Safety & Health), and Hadassah Taxis station to install safety seats within the taxis in order to safely transport newborns from the Maternity Ward and Department of Neonatology back home. |
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| 1300 Attended The 4th Annual Israel Conference for Medicine | | 04/08/2010 | 1,300 people attended the 4th annual Israel Conference for Medicine initiated and organized by Hadassah Medical Organization. Among the participants were deputy minister of health Yaakov Litzman; Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat; Cyprus's minister of health Christos Patsalides; Ambassadors; Hospital managers; senior ministry of health officials; IDF Surgeon General Brigadir General Dr. Nachman Ash; hospital management, and many other experts from the Israeli health system. |
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| Pictures at an Exhibition: Hadassah, the Early Years | | 01/08/2010 | From now until the end of August, the Jerusalem Theater’s vast lobby is displaying “The Healing of the Daughter of My People – Hadassah, the Early Years,” a pictorial exhibit of some of Hadassah’s activities in pre-State Israel and during the first decades of the State. |
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| Hadassah’s Bat Ami Center for Sexual Assault Victims Marks First Anniversary | | 20/07/2010 | Judge Dorit Beinisch, President of Israel's Supreme Court, keynoted the convention marking the first anniversary of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s Bat-Ami Center for sexual assault victims. “It's impossible not to be overwhelmed by the mission you took upon yourselves,” said Judge Beinisch, praising the initiative and the professionals who support the victims. |
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| The annual Israel Conference for Medicine will be held on August 3rd | | 04/07/2010 | The annual Israel Conference for Medicine will be held on August 3rd., in Jerusalem. Initiated four years ago by Hadassah Medical Center and "Ha'ir" newspaper, it will discuss issues between medicine and society with a collaboration of of Bnei-Zion Medical Center and Maccabi Health Services. |
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| First in Israel: Live Gynecology Robotic Surgery | | 20/06/2010 | A first of its kind presentation was held at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital last week, where two laparoscopic and robotic hysterectomies were performed by Dr. Avi Benshushan, director of the Onco-gynecology unit at Hadassah, and Dr. Jacob Tangir, an expert in minimally invasive cancer and pelvic surgery (laparoscopic & robotic) from the Center for Gynecologic Oncology in Florida, USA. |
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| International No Smoking Day: Hadassah Took an Active Part | | 13/06/2010 | Recently Hadassah commemorated the annual international no smoking day with a variety of activities and events in the hospital. These included providing information about the risks of smoking, reinforcement of Hadassah policy of non smoking within and close to its facilities and honoring Hadassah personnel who stopped smoking recently. |
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| "Children's Hallway" inaugurated at Hadassah Ein Kerem | | 03/06/2010 | The "children's hallway" was inaugurated in a modest ceremony at Hadassah Ein Kerem. The ones dark and gloomy corridor walls underwent a complete "face lift" and were covered with spectacular wall paintings. |
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| Jerusalem Day Twins | | 14/05/2010 | Three women from Jerusalem gave birth yesterday to three sets of twins in Hadassah En Kerem Hospital: a boy and a girl each |
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| Hadassah Specialist to Co- Chair Large International Diabetes Trial | | 24/03/2010 | Prof. Itamar Raz, Director of the Diabetes Unit at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, will co-chair the large international research trial, SAVOR (“Saxagliptin in Assessment of Vascular Outcomes Recorded in Patients with Diabetes Melliuts”) to assess the effects of saxagliptin,( Onglyza™ - a novel DPP4 inhibitor medication which enhances response to incretin, a hormone that works to increase insulin activity) on cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetic patients. Prof. Raz will co-chair the study in collaboration with Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Chairman of the TIMI (Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction) Study Group of Boston, USA, a world leader in conducting clinical trials that assess the care of patients with coronary artery diseases. The SAVOR study is sponsored by the Bristol-Myers Squibb/AstraZeneca Diabetes Collaboration, which is dedicated to global patient care, improving patient outcomes and creating a new vision for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. |
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| Hadassah Doctor One of Seven Elected to Serve On Select | | 21/03/2010 | Dr. Mordechai Duvdevani, Director of Endo-urology and Lithotripsy in the Department of Urology at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, has been elected to an elite international committee that determines which medical centers throughout the world will be authorized to conduct fellowships in endo-urology. |
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| Pregnancy restores the regenerative capacity of aged mice | | 17/03/2010 | |
Conceptual Breakthrough – Identification and proper activation of a Pregnancy Therapeutic Mechanism May Be Helpful to Old Patients.
In a paper published this week in the prestigious medical magazine "Genes and Development", a group from the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hadassah University Hospital and Developmental Biology and Pathology at the Hebrew University Medical School demonstrates that pregnancy restores liver regeneration in aged mice. |
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| Hadassah Researchers and Dor Yeshorim Identify Gene Responsible for Joubert Syndrome | | 28/12/2009 | Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center, together with Dor Yeshorim (The Committee for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases) have announced the discovery of a genetic mutation that causes children of Ashkenazi Jews to be born with Joubert Syndrome, a neurological genetic disease. Their findings will be published in the January 2010 edition of The American Journal of Human Genetics. This is the 13th gene whose mutations may cause the birth of children with genetic diseases Hadassah’s Department of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases discovered during the last two years. |
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| Hadassah and Desert Labs Researchers Demonstrate that Cactus Extract Alleviates Symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome and Fatty Liver Disease | | 03/11/2009 | Jerusalem - Researchers at the Hadassah University Medical Center have demonstrated that – when administered orally for a month – the frozen natural extract of the succulent plant Hoodia Parviflora decreases the level of sugar in the blood and improves the symptoms of metabolic syndrome in patients with fatty liver disease. This is the first time this plant’s extract proved to efficiently decrease the level of fat in the liver and the first time scientists succeeded in improving symptoms of fatty liver disease using natural materials, in addition to the plant’s appetite suppressing properties. |
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| Positive Results of Hadassah-Alcobra Ltd Phase 1 Clinical Trial of | | 01/11/2009 | A Phase 1 clinical trial conducted at the Hadassah University Hospital-Ein Kerem showed that ingesting one dose of a new slow release Metadoxine formula before consuming alcohol lowered the level of alcohol in the blood, dramatically improved motor and cognitive functions and decreased the craving for alcohol in the test participants. Metadoxine, a substance currently used to treat alcoholic addiction, is only effective for about 50 minutes. The slow release formula was developed by Alcobra Ltd., an Israeli start-up company. |
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| Hadassah Researchers Discover Treatment for Fatty Liver Disease | | 01/11/2009 | Jerusalem - Hadassah researchers have demonstrated that Colostrum, the milk produced by cows immediately after calving, enriched with insulin antibodies, dramatically lowers the level of sugar and insulin resistance in mice with a model of fatty liver disease. They treated mice with fatty liver disease with Colostrum enriched with insulin antibodies, administered orally for four weeks, which showed positive results. |
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| Hadassah Receives Generous Gift for the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower | | 11/10/2009 | The Hadassah University Medical Center has announced a generous gift from the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation of Beverly Hills, California for the Entrance Atrium to the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, currently under construction on Hadassah’s Ein Kerem campus in Jerusalem. |
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| Completion of Transfer of Oral Immunotherapy Patent to Immuron. | | 09/09/2009 | Immuron and Hadasit are pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of intellectual property (IP) by Immuron from Hadasit in the area of oral immunotherapies, and the establishment of Hadasit as the largest shareholder in Immuron, with a 19.99% stake. The initial applications of the technology platform associated with this IP will be type 2 diabetes, liver cancer (hepatoma), and hepatitis C. |
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| Jessa's Story | | 16/08/2009 | Jessa Perin (16) is from Cincinnati. She came to Israel with Birthright last July. On Tuesday July 19, while touring in the north with her group, Jessa became very sick with no visible reason. Her condition deteriorated rapidly and she was taken to a hospital in northern Israel. While Israeli members of her family were trying to find out if she could be transferred to Hadassah, the hospital in the north consulted with Hadassah Ein Kerem regarding the best thing for her. Dr. Rifat Safadi from Hadassah's liver unit decided that she had to be taken to Hadassah immediately, and this happened the same night.Upon arrival, Jessa underwent a series of tests which showed very clearly that she was in real danger unless she was undergoing a liver transplantation. |
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| Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem mourns the death of Bill Davidson in Detroit | | 15/03/2009 | Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem mourns the death of Bill Davidson in Detroit . Davidson was one of Hadassah's strongest supporters. Together with his wife Karen, he made a very significant contribution to the establishment of the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospitalization Tower in the Hadassah Ein- Kerem Campus. |
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| Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came to visit the Hadassah children for Purim | | 11/03/2009 | The children (and their parents) and the nurses were already waiting when the PM arrived. He was welcomed by Prof. Mor-Yosef and Dr. Yuval Weiss, director of Ein-Kerem hospital. PM Olmert, brought gifts (Mishlo'ach Manot) to the children, and sat among them for half an hour. Ephraim Der'i, father of Hadassah Der'I (2 years old) was very excited when he told that his daughter's life was saved by Hadassah physicians, after no one could diagnose the disease she was suffering from. He said they were hoping to go back home in a few days, and that little Hadassah was celebrating her birthday today. But she was not the only Hadassah who was celebrating a birthday in Purim. We prepared a special cake with greeting in Hebrew: "Hadassah celebrates its 97th birthday", and PM Olmert cut the slices and tasted it with the children. |
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| Israel lags in race for medical tourists | | 01/03/2009 | "Proper handling of Medical Tourism will bring to Israel much income and foreign currency, improve our status in the world, and especially in the region, contribute to the creation of new jobs, increase the satisfaction of doctors and contribute to their remaining in Israel. All this will raise the level of medicine in Israel," said Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef. |
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| Successful Stage II Clinical Trials for New Medication | | 25/08/2008 | A new medication to treat Cystic Fibrosis (CF) has successfully passed the Stage II clinical trials conducted at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Medical Center. Developed by PTC Therapeutics of South Plainfield, NJ, the experimental treatment energizes the production of a deficient protein, causing it to return to its proper function. The successful results, published in the August 21 edition of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, immediately attracted international attention. |
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