The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, visited Hadassah yesterday while staying in Israel for a work visit.

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.

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.

Gastroenterologists at Mount Scopus and Ein Kerem Hospitals were recently called several times, at times at night, to perform emergency endoscopy on young women who have swollen sewing pins.

Hadassah Medical Organization, with the cooperation of "MyDoctor" website, recently held a photography contest. The leading 15 photos were portrayed at the 4th Israel Conference for Medicine, held on August 4, at the Jerusalem Convention Center.

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.

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.

A 33 year old patient, who had a heart implant 5 years ago, gave birth to a pair of twins in a cesarean section.

A very successful annual drill, which simulated multi-casualties terrorist attach, ended the trauma course for 6^th year students at Hadassah.

Industrial Design students from Bezalel Academy presented their artworks in the field of human engineering in medical surrounding at Hadassah.

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.

First at Hadassah, Dr. Uzi Izhar, Head of the General Thoracic Surgery Unit, performed along with Dr. Mark Ginsburg, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Columbia Presbyterian hospital, a transplant of a diaphragmatic / phrenic nerve stimulator to pace the 2 side diaphragm muscle.

A new Cyclotron was installed at Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem recently.

The annual Israel Conference for Medicine will be held on August 3^rd., 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.

Annual Hadassah conference for risk management held at Hadassah Hospital.

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.

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.

The annual research faculty day of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the Hebrew University-- Hadassah in Ein Kerem was held for the twelfth time. The annual research day summers the current scientific abilities of the faculty's laboratories and departments, as well as enables social gathering, in which all the members of the Faculty take part, including, the teaching staff, and the students.

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.

As the news from Gaza started to come in this morning, it was clear that today may bring some action to Hadassah as well. At 10:30, an Israeli Airforce helicopter landed at Hadassah Ein Kerem helipad with four wounded (all foreign citizens) who were injured in the scuffle at sea by the Gaza shore.

As the news from Gaza started to come in this morning, it was clear that today may bring some action to Hadassah as well. At 10:30, an Israeli Airforce helicopter landed at Hadassah Ein Kerem helipad with four wounded (all foreign citizens) who were injured in the scuffle at sea by the Gaza shore.

On Wednesday, June 9, 2010, an exhibition opening will be held in Hadassah Mt. Scopus. The exhibition will include patients' and Bezalel's students' artworks, which express the meaning of the process they had with the patients.

Bezalel labs and Hadasit have signed a first of its kind agreement for development and commercialization of products bases on students' ideas during the school year. The products will be developed for commercialization by Bezalel labs, in cooperation with Hadasit.

Three women from Jerusalem gave birth yesterday to three sets of twins in Hadassah En Kerem Hospital: a boy and a girl each

The Chagall Windows will be closed to visitors till the end of July 2010.

In the beginning of April 2010, a new men's fertility center for HIV carriers has started its operation in Haddasah Ein Kerem.

Researchers at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Medical Center have developed a novel strategy to derive and culture human embryonic stem cells in suspension. This breakthrough may be the key to developing systems to manufacture the enormous quantities of stem cells required to treat millions of patients.

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.

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.

For the past five years, Hadassah has been the home for a unique and one of a kind voluntary project. The project brings together medical students from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and patients and their families during their hospitalization. The student volunteers offer patients and their families their attendance, a sympathetic ear and emotional assistance as well as participation in daily activities and communication with the medical staff.

Da Vinci – the surgical robot – marks its first anniversary of use at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Ein Kerem.

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 13^th 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.

The Chagall Windows at Hadassah Ein-Kerem hospital will be closed to visitors between November 29 – December 11, 2009, due to maintenance work

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.

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.

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.

Doctor & Gourmet Chef Rani Polak of "Hadassah Optimal" in Jerusalem Illustrates how to eat safely without sacrificing taste.

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.

Researchers from the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem have transplanted pigment-containing visual cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, successfully preserving the structure and function of the specialized light-sensitive lining of the eye in an animal model of retinal degeneration.

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.

Today was another mile stone in the history of Hadassah. The new helipad, on top of the CEM building had its first helicopter landing.

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.

Mayor Nir Barkat visited the new Hadassah Medical Center Hebrew University Biotechnology Park (JBP-Jerusalem BioPark) Ein-Kerem at Hadassah University Hospital’s Ein Kerem campus today.

Prof. Daniel Shouval, Director of the Liver Unit at the Hadassah Ein-Kerem University Hospital, received last Friday the annual Recognition Award of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL), during the Association's 44^th annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in front of more than 7,000 colleagues from all over the world.

A Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) from the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo was successfully treated for Cataract at Hadassah last night.

Hadassah multidisciplinary team saved the life of a baby with a complete heart block.

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.

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 97^th birthday", and PM Olmert cut the slices and tasted it with the children.

"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.

Surgeons at Hadassah hospital in Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem, recently have been operating on their patients using a robot.

This is an upgrade of the original surgical robot, which was originally developed by NASA scientists for operating on astronauts in space.

You wouldn't wish familial dysautonomia (FD) on your worst enemy.

Transplantation of human embryonic stem cells into the brains of a mouse with multiple sclerosis (MS) slowed down significantly the clinical symptoms and pathological manifestations of the disease, Hadassah physicians and scientists reported last week.

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.