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Assuta Medical Center in Rishon Lezion. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

March 16, 2023, 2:51 am

Parents given wrong embryo set to sue hospital for NIS 100 million

Lawsuit against Assuta Hospital to focus on malpractice, distress faced by family; Supreme Court ruled last week to halt genetic testing to find biological couple

By ToI Staff

Illustrative: An in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London, August 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

March 6, 2023, 2:55 pm

Supreme Court rules no genetic tests to find origin of wrongly implanted embryo

Justices side with couple raising child, overturning lower court’s decision to allow testing to go ahead; parents hail ‘miracle’ ruling

By ToI Staff

A photo of the mother, who was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center after a stroke, with her healthy baby girl. The photo has been blurred at the woman's request. (courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)

December 6, 2022, 9:46 pm

Jerusalem doctors deliver baby while simultaneously saving mom from stroke

‘There was a real sense of stress… We were responsible for two lives,’ says Shaare Zedek doctor, crediting a quick-thinking citizen for recognizing stroke and calling ambulance

By Nathan Jeffay

December 6, 2022, 10:14 am

Parents given wrong embryo said planning to sue hospital for $3 million

6 couples who suspect the child is biologically theirs are seeking to force genetic testing to ascertain the matter

By ToI Staff

Health Ministry Director Prof. Nachman Ash (left) and Dr. Hadar Mizrahi hold a press conference about the Health Ministry's investigation into the case of a pregnant woman who was mistakenly inseminated with a fetus that was not genetically hers, near Tel Aviv, November 27, 2022. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

November 27, 2022, 9:00 pm

Health Ministry ends search for parents of mistaken embryo, won’t shutter ward

Ministry chief says Assuta’s fertility ward to reduce operations by 50%; search called off for biological parents after potential couple dismissed by genetic testing

By ToI Staff

A doctor prepares an epidural (Dmitry Andreev via iStock by Getty Images)

November 6, 2022, 1:01 pm

Health Ministry strikes deal for epidural shipments, alleviating fears of shortage

Israel Midwives Association says ministry has located alternate sources for anesthesia kits, easing the concerns of many pregnant women

By ToI Staff

Illustrative image: a newborn baby (iStock via Getty Images)

October 26, 2022, 7:04 pm

Woman mistakenly implanted with wrong embryo gives birth to baby girl

With no other current claims for custody, mother asks for privacy; other women who did fertility treatment at Assuta Medical Center set to demand tests

By ToI Staff

Illustrative image: a woman giving birth. (gorodenkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

October 11, 2022, 1:06 pm

Doctors scramble to avert possible epidural shortage in Israel as stock dwindles

With supplies on pace to run out within two months, Midwives Association assures women nobody will lack an epidural, as efforts kick in to find new sources

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative image of a mother with postnatal depression (iStock by Getty Images)

June 2, 2022, 10:43 am

Women who give birth with epidural bond better with baby, Israeli study suggests

Researchers from Soroka Medical Center tracked over 230 mothers, found those who did not used pain-relieving procedure were more likely to have postpartum concerns, depression

By ToI Staff

April 15, 2022, 7:43 pm

Depression rates among pregnant women, new moms doubled during lockdown, study finds

Researcher ‘surprised’ by the high numbers, and says that even though lockdowns seem to be behind us, it will take time for levels to get back to normal

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: In this file photo taken on January 27, 2021, Palestinian doctors and technicians work at the IVF laboratory at the Razan Center fertility clinic in Nablus, in the West Bank. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

April 13, 2022, 10:43 pm

Arab Israeli couples flock to West Bank clinics to choose babies’ sex

While Israel holds highest rate of IVF per capita in the world and offers free treatment to women citizens up to age 45, Israeli law strictly regulates selecting a child’s gender

By Claire Gounon and Delphine Mathieussent

Hani Kochav-Lev (center) and her husband Eliezer, with their new baby and nurse Renanit Berman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center (courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)

March 4, 2022, 12:32 pm

Tears of relief in Jerusalem, as Kyiv teacher who left just in time gives birth

Hani Kochav-Lev glued to heartbreaking updates of students’ families throughout labor; overjoyed she managed to return to Israel and baby not born in ‘impossible circumstances’

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Newborn babies at the English Mission Hospital, in Nazareth, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

February 21, 2022, 6:06 pm

Israel’s birthrate trended downward in 2020, statistics bureau says

Despite dip, Jewish state still among most fertile in OECD; in first, Jewish women surpass Arab counterparts in fertility

By ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on October 6, 2021, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and his wife Carrie (R) arrive at the Manchester Central convention center ahead of his keynote speech on the final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, northwest England. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

December 9, 2021, 2:26 pm

UK Prime Minister Johnson and wife Carrie welcome baby girl

Mother and daughter said to both be doing well; birth is second for couple following Wilfred, born in 2020

By Agencies

An X-ray showing the stomach of a newborn baby girl who was found to have an embryo inside her, July 2021. (Assuta Medical Center)

July 28, 2021, 12:18 pm

One in half a million: Girl born in Israel with twin inside her stomach

Doctors swiftly remove remains of what was at least one sibling from baby; mother and daughter healthy

By ToI Staff