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A fetus inside the womb (iStock via Getty Images)
May 24, 2023, 6:24 pm
Hospital finds five stillborn fetuses were never returned to families for burial
Eilat’s Yoseftal Medical Center says it was only recently made aware that remains sent to lab for autopsies in separate incidents five-to-eight years ago weren’t returned
By Michael Horovitz
Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv's Ramat HaHayal neighborhood, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 20, 2023, 7:11 pm
Health Ministry expected to probe hospital’s latest possible embryo mix-up
Report says officials deliberating between having committee that is already investigating similar case examine matter or forming new panel
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A lab in an IVF clinic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
May 19, 2023, 9:56 pm
Health Ministry slams hospital’s handling of potential embryo mix-up
Assuta Medical Center denies improper conduct after ministry accuses it of serious breach of protocol at Tel Aviv facility
By ToI Staff
Shirel Hilel (Screen capture: Channel 13 news)
April 2, 2021, 8:58 pm
Hospital blamed over women’s death from heart inflammation after vaccination
Family of Shirel Hilel accuses Ziv Medical Center of neglect: ‘She just deteriorated before their eyes and no one even lifted a hand’; not clear whether case tied to vaccine
By ToI Staff
Moshe Harazi (via Facebook)
January 16, 2021, 9:13 pm
COVID patient dies after breathing tube detaches, staff fails to notice in time
Ichilov hospital investigating, but blames heavy workload amid Israel’s third pandemic wave, says it will divert more staff to coronavirus wards
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A woman undergoes a digital mammogram (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP Images for College of American Pathologists)
June 26, 2019, 1:12 am
Health Ministry sanctions breast cancer clinic after test errors — report
Channel 12 says LEM lab banned from carrying out half of its tests after mixing up patients’ results, and causing women to get wrong treatments
By ToI Staff
Illustration of pipettes at a laboratory at Hebrew Universities Hadassah Ein Kerem medical center campus. June 16, 2013. (FLASH90)
July 4, 2018, 6:44 am
Health Ministry says women may have been misled about cancer testing
Health funds and hospital to track down women who saw Dr. Zvi Borochowitz after internal probe finds he advised against gene testing when it was needed in at least one case
By Sue Surkes
Doctor Yuval Weiss, director-general of Hadassah Medical Center. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 10, 2017, 8:31 pm
Ex-Hadassah hospital director may be charged with malpractice, negligence
Yuval Weiss, along with 4 doctors and a nurse from the Ein Kerem hospital, allegedly failed to remove carbon dioxide tank from operating room
By ToI Staff
A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
November 9, 2015, 11:28 am
Top doctor arrested in medical marijuana ring bust
Police say hospital department head made millions selling false recommendations for licenses, ran nationwide network
By Raoul Wootliff
Joan Rivers (left), and daughter Melissa Rivers at the 2013 Matrix New York Women in Communications Awards, in New York, April 22, 2013. (AP/Evan Agostini/Invision)
January 27, 2015, 4:53 am
Joan Rivers’s daughter sues over comedian’s death
Melissa Rivers alleges in malpractice suit that doctors mistreated mother, failed to act when vital signs tanked
By AP
Comedian Joan Rivers in 2009. (AP/Lionel Cironneau)
November 11, 2014, 12:08 pm
Clinic slammed for medical violations in Joan River’s death
State report on Jewish comedan’s death shows doctors failed to check vital signs, staff member snapped photos of her while sedated
By AP
Test tubes filled with blood samples (Illustrative photo credit: Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90)
August 13, 2012, 1:28 pm
Soldier has intestine removed after military doctors fail to diagnose him
50 medical checkups produced no results, then mother found son passed out on the bathroom floor
By Aaron Kalman
Anna Shibot, 5, underwent a month of needless chemotherapy treatments (image capture, Channel 2 News)
June 14, 2012, 9:56 pm
Health Ministry to launch probe into ‘accidental chemo’
Doctors mistakenly believed Anna Shibot had lymphoma, turns out they were wrong
By Hillary Zaken
Anna Shibot, 5, underwent a month of needless chemotherapy treatments (image capture, Channel 2 News)
June 11, 2012, 2:43 pm
Five-year-old undergoes unnecessary chemotherapy
Doctors told child’s mother afterwards that she suffered from an infection, not a growth
By Hillary Zaken
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