Hadassah sets the standard for health care in the Middle East. The Hadassah Medical Organization includes two hospitals, five schools, out-patients clinics, research facilities and community health centers. We treat over one million patients annually and educate health care professionals without regard to race, religion, or national origin.

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Recent Discoveries and Explorations

♦ Nerve cells created from human embryonic stem cells improve the functioning of a laboratory rat with Parkinson’s disease.

♦ Discovery of a new gene mutation and its pathway for causing a fatal pediatric metabolic disease.

♦ World’s first computer-assisted, minimally invasive hip replacement surgery.

♦ Cervical collar for trauma patients (in collaboration with Tel Aviv University’s technology transfer company) that both protects the neck and keeps the patient’s airway open.

♦ Treatment for lupus, involving a device called the “Lupusorb Column,” which removes antibodies from the bloodstream.

♦ Blood test to diagnose brain tumors using DNA samples from very small fragments of brain tumor tissue, potentially eliminating the need for invasive biopsy.

♦ Development of a peptide (in collaboration with a team from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, USA) that could save the lives of people stricken with ischemic strokes, by bypassing serious side effects of a medication used to dissolve blood clots.

♦ Possibility of image-guided treatment of cancer through identification of genetic malfunctions and biochemical processes of malignant tumors, using the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) machine.

♦ Back brace for scoliosis sufferers, which signficiantly reduces spinal curvature.

♦ Effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy in safeguarding the heart, when given to healthy women at the onset of menopause.

♦ Attaching a girdle to a woman’s stomach can enable someone who lacks a normal stomach wall to conceive and carry a baby to term.

♦ Severe perforation in a fetus’ abdomen can be treated by removing much of the ruptured intestine a few hours after the baby’s birth.

♦ Generating transgenic plants to yield genetically modified enzymes to treat Gaucher Disease and other enzyme and protein deficiencies.

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