Hadassah hospital

Jerusalem teacher’s vision improved from 10% to 90% after Hadassah surgery

Surgeons implanted donor corneal tissue to treat severe keratoconus, allowing the 38-year-old teacher to resume driving and working

Doctor examines patient at Hadassah Medical Center.
MRI scan.

Health Ministry report reveals long wait times for MRI, surgeries at hospitals and clinics

THE HADASSAH-UNIVERSITY Medical Center campus is seen in Ein Kerem.

Grapevine: Special delivery

The entrance to the Emergency room at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020.

Four infants hospitalized in Jerusalem after consuming puree containing sedatives


Israel makes cancer treatment breakthrough with genomic profiling

Hadassah-University Medical Center and a pharmaceutical company offer personalized cancer care based on genomic profiling.

Cancer (Illustrative)

Israelis find breakthrough treatment for cancer patients' severe itching

The study aimed at eradicating chronic pruritus attracted great international interest after it was presented at the annual conference of the European Association for Clinical Immunology and Allergy.

 Finding ways to stop the progression of cancer (Illustrative).

Hadassah trains Palestinian Authority doctor to treat endometriosis

34-year-old Dr. Abu Khattab from the Palestinian territories chose to specialize in gynecology and study advanced laparoscopic surgery to treat endometriosis.

 Dr. Abu Khattab is seen at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem.

Grapevine August 16, 2023: Cut the talking

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG receives from Michael Oren his visionary book ‘2048: The Rejuvenated State.’

Hospital accidentally injects 5 pregnant women with rabies vaccine

The five pregnant women came to Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem for anti-D vaccination but were mistakenly given the "almost identical" rabies shot.

 A pregnant woman gets vaccinated (illustrative).

Doctors treat hypoglycemic lung cancer patient with breast cancer drug - study

The patient with malignant lung cancer suffered from a rare complication in which the tumor secretes a protein that causes acute hypoglycemia. Israeli doctors used a breast cancer drug to treat it.

 An illustrative image of lung cancer.

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.

 In the photo from left: Dr. Shai Porat; Dr. Dan Arbel; and Noa Ofek-Shloma’i, with the baby in her arms.

What is the pacemaker implanted in PM Netanyahu?

Micra is for patients who suffer from bradycardia – a slow heartbeat (unlike tachycardia, which is a too-rapid heartbeat) and require a single-chamber pacemaker.

Virtual image of human heart

Heatwave warning: Sunburn cases surge as dry spell persists

The physicians warned that careless exposure to the sun, especially in the coming days of the heat wave, "is a real danger.”

Woman with sunburn (illustrative).

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.

 Barak Haruvi