Tag: Hadassah Medical Center

Israel ought to have its head examined. Its bleeding heart could use a check-up, too. Both became painfully clear this week and by no means for the first time. Whatever the prognosis, one thing is...

Researchers at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem have created a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence program to recognize cancer-causing mutations. “Today, we can already say that carriers of a TP53 gene mutation have an increased risk of developing...

When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before...

In its annual World’s Best Specialized Hospitals list, the U.S. magazine Newsweek names three Israeli medical centers. The magazine ranks the top 250 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 150 for cardiac surgery and pediatrics, and...

Naomi Adler’s connection with Hadassah began two decades before she was even born, when noted cantor Hugo Chaim Adler and his wife, Selma, stepped off the ship in New York—a ship that had taken...

Israeli researchers have announced in a new study that antibodies produced from a COVID-19 vaccine can be passed from a pregnant mother to her baby. The study by researchers from Hadassah University Medical Center, which...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, was hospitalized late Wednesday night at the Hadassah Medical Center Ein Kerem in Jerusalem after feeling unwell. She was diagnosed with appendicitis and will remain in the hospital for...

Henrietta Szold was a woman of many contradictions. She was a family person who lived largely in the public arena. Possessed of only a high school diploma, she edited and published some of the...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat died Tuesday of complications related to COVID-19. He was 65 years old. Erekat was diagnosed with the coronavirus in early October. Having undergone a lung transplant in 2017, he was...

A Jordanian army officer was airlifted to Israel on Wednesday for urgent medical treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, according to senior Jordanian sources. The hospital confirmed that “a Jordanian army officer was...