Hadassah Medical Center

Illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Cells learn from pregnancy, to make healthier babies next time round — study

Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center say their cell research may lead to new drugs that improve the chances of successful childbirths, avoid diseases in high-risk women

Giraffes at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

June 18, 2018, 6:00 pm

Scientists go to zoo, find that cell size, not body size, affects lifespan

Close examination of pancreas in various animals, large and small, yields 'shockingly beautiful and unexpected' correlation for researchers from Israel, Canada, Germany

By Shoshanna Solomon

June 13, 2018, 5:42 pm

Cells learn from pregnancy, to make healthier babies next time round — study

Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center say their cell research may lead to new drugs that improve the chances of successful childbirths, avoid diseases in high-risk women

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Jerusalem YMCA auditorium full of midwives, doulas and childbirth educators at the two-day Childbirth Conference (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

June 2, 2018, 12:31 pm

How to ‘spin’ your unborn baby, and other birthing techniques

It's not with a stationary bike, midwives and doulas learn, as they gather at Jerusalem's YMCA for two days of advanced training

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Medical personnel at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, on March 2, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 27, 2018, 10:24 am

Thousands of health professionals strike over manpower shortage

Physiotherapists, dietitians, speech therapists, occupational therapists and others walk out claiming they are overworked and unable to meet demand

By Stuart Winer

This Thursday, November 2, 2017 photo shows gel capsules of acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

April 24, 2018, 11:42 am

Israeli research links acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism, ADHD

Hebrew U team checks data on more than 130,000 mothers and children, finds increased risk associated with prolonged use of popular analgesic

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative. Girl in hospital bed. (iStock)

April 11, 2018, 1:16 pm

Harmony in the children’s ward

Where an hour of upbeat music means an hour of less pain in the world

By Adina Samuels

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

March 28, 2018, 12:24 am

Netanyahu released from hospital, diagnosed with mild viral infection

Prime minister had been admitted with high fever, cough; doctors say all tests negative, so he was sent home and told to rest

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coughing while addressing an annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. (AFP / JACK GUEZ)

March 27, 2018, 10:19 pm

Netanyahu taken to Jerusalem hospital with high fever

Prime minister's condition worsened after he failed to get proper rest to overcome illness, physician says; deputy health minister says all tests negative and he's 'feeling better'

By TOI staff

Unidentified medical personnel from Hadassah Medical Center in Israel and the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia, confer during a Hadassah team’s mission in Ethiopia to perform spinal surgeries on young patients, March 2018. (Courtesy of Hadassah via JTA)

March 27, 2018, 5:55 am

Israeli doctors perform lifesaving spinal surgeries in Ethiopia

Surgeon says some cases 'were so bad that if we wouldn’t have operated... at least half of them would be dead by next year'

By Josefin Dolsten

February 3, 2018, 8:31 am

Pediatric oncologist takes readers inside Hadassah hospital with new memoir

American-born Elisha Waldman reflects on the unique challenges of treating sick kids in religiously and politically complex Jerusalem

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Gaza resident Mohammed Taluli's hand before it was operated on by doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center. (Hadassah Medical Center)

August 30, 2017, 5:41 pm

Israeli doctors successfully operate on Gaza ‘tree man’

Hadassah surgeon who treated Mohammed Taluli says rare disease has 'no documentation whatsoever in the medical annals'

By TOI staff

One of the cars hit in a head-on collision in the Jordan Valley on August 22, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

August 22, 2017, 6:41 pm

6 injured, 4 seriously, in head-on Jordan Valley car collision

Medics free one driver who was trapped inside vehicle

By Jacob Magid

July 12, 2017, 4:17 pm

Jerusalem, you have failed me

With poor options for her son's medical care, she asks how the capital of the Jewish people could be so heartless

By Gina Shaffer

Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 29, 2017, 12:30 am

Hadassah parents end hunger strike amid ongoing mediation

Mediator Elyakim Rubinstein hopes move will help sides resolve crisis over children's cancer ward

By TOI staff

Supreme Court justice and Elyakim Rubinstein in his Jerusalem office (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

June 27, 2017, 2:52 pm

Over parents’ opposition, court orders mediation in Hadassah hospital crisis

Ex-Supreme Court judge Rubinstein will try to resolve dispute surrounding children's cancer unit

By TOI staff