Hadassah Women Group Slams Red Cross’ Failure to Treat Israeli Hostages Held Captive in Gaza by Hamas
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, sent a strongly worded missive to Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric on Wednesday, criticizing her organization’s failure to visit and treat Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza by Hamas. Spoljaric is currently visiting Israel for the first time since the war broke out. In their letter, Haddassah Women […]
Call to Action: World WIZO Chairperson Anita Friedman calls on WIZO federations worldwide to appeal to their governments to help Israel bring our hostages home.
World WIZO are calling on their international federations and affiliates to contact local government leaders and anyone of influence in your community and country to call for the immediate release of hostages. “We strongly implore all people of good conscience to take immediate action and do everything in your power to put an end to […]
Hadassah Hospital URGENT NEEDS
Hadassah Hospital is providing medical care for the large number of incoming patients in the emergency rooms and operation rooms. It is vital for them to increase their inventory of medical equipment in each unit because transportation from one area to another is limited due to the potential exposure to rocket and missile attacks. The […]
Israeli Surgeons Save Newborn Baby from Rare Ovarian Torsion
Ovarian torsion is the most common complication of an untreated ovarian cyst. It is an emergency that must be treated as quickly as possible. Surgeons at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem have treated an extremely rare case of ovarian torsion on both sides in a baby girl right after her birth. When Tamar Levy came […]
Doctors Reattach Boy’s Head After Car Accident Thanks to ‘Amazing’ Surgery
Doctors at Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center performed the miraculous surgery. Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike, a Jerusalem hospital announced this week. Suleiman Hassan, a 12-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, suffered what is known as […]
Diving Instructor Saved by Unique Procedure
A diving instructor was saved by a unique procedure in Jerusalem after being rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain. While practicing diving in Greece, Barak Haruvi of Eilat suddenly felt severe pain. The 38-year-old diving instructor was told by doctors there to return urgently to Israel where he was diagnosed with a complicated […]
Hadassah Medical Center Researchers Tout ‘Hopeful’ Treatment Results For Myeloma Cancer
Israeli researchers at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem have developed a new experimental treatment for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, with 92 percent of tested-on patients showing positive signs, and over half of them going into complete remission. The treatment is based on cellular engineering used for treatments of other diseases, and was developed by Professor Cyrille […]
Israeli CAR-T cancer treatment could be administered out-patient – first in the world
Israeli CAR-T cancer treatment could be administered out-patient – first in the worldThe therapy was developed at Hadassah to treat Multiple Myeloma, AL Amyloidosis and other BCMA-positive malignancies. Israeli cancer treatment is en route to becoming the world’s first and only out-patient CAR-T for multiple myeloma, AL amyloidosis and other BCMA-positive malignancies. Prof. Polina Stepensky […]
Jerusalem’s Hadassah medical center named global leader in several fields
Newsweek has named Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center a world leader in oncology and for the fifth straight year one of the globe’s top hospitals in both cardiology and smart technology. The rankings appeared in the World’s Best Hospitals 2023, the fifth annual assessment of 300 hospitals in 28 countries produced by Newsweek, in partnership with the global data […]
Hadassah Appoints New Emergency Room Director
Dr. Ahmed Naama was appointed the new director of the Emergency Medicine Department (Emergency Room) at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. Naama, an expert in emergency medicine and the management of acute emergencies and trauma, replaced Prof. Kobi Assaf, who was appointed as the director of the emergency medicine unit at the Hadassah Medical […]
