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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

pediatric cancer

The opening of the Dr. Musa and Suhaila Nasir Pediatric Cancer Department, the first pediatric cancer department in the Gaza Strip, on February 19, 2019. (Screen capture: Facebook)
February 19, 2019, 5:40 pm
US charity opens Gaza’s first cancer ward for children
New facility sponsored by Palestine Children’s Relief Fund hailed as ‘a symbol of hope’; fund says it has an agreement to allow transfer of samples to Israel, Jordan
By Agencies
Liron Walter helps a child with cancer put together a menorah for Hanukkah at the Daycare of Dreams kindergarten in Ramat Gan. (Courtesy Larger Than Life)
December 27, 2018, 3:47 am
In Israel, a sterile kindergarten built so cancer patients can just be kids
World’s only purpose-built facility of its kind, Ramat Gan’s Daycare of Dreams provides treatment and education for tots who otherwise might not be able to play with other children
By Larry Luxner
Dr. Elisha Waldman (Michael Lionstar)
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
Parents and young cancer patients from Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem, march in protest against Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and hospital CEO Zeev Rotstein in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 25, 2017, 8:44 am
Parents say children have died because of Hadassah cancer ward crisis
Hospital says claims made in letter to State Comptroller calling for official probe into handling of cancer department are ‘exaggerated’
By Sue Surkes
A hearing about the Hadassah Hospital crisis at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 4, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 5, 2017, 1:30 am
Court allows some ex-Hadassah doctors to move to other hospital
Ruling after breakdown of mediation will see 2-3 pediatric cancer doctors transfer to existing clinic at Shaare Zedek
By Sue Surkes
Former Supreme Court justice Elyakim Rubinstein in 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
July 3, 2017, 10:32 pm
Mediator in Hadassah cancer ward crisis admits defeat
Retired justice Elyakim Rubinstein tells High Court talks at an impasse; court may impose solution
By Sue Surkes
Parents and young cancer patients from Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem, march in protest against Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and hospital CEO Zeev Rotstein in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2017, 6:04 pm
Parents say health minister rebuffed proposals to end cancer ward crisis
As High Court-ordered mediation talks go into overtime, Hadassah parents say health minister’s ego ‘will kill our children’
By Sue Surkes
Uri Yakir, a parent of a child at the hemato-oncology department in Hadassah Ein Kerem, yells at the hospital's head Zeev Rotstein at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 28, 2017, 4:03 pm
The emperor of all dramas
An angry protest by parents of Hadassah cancer patients needs no extra kick to rend hearts as papers bring readers into the fray
By Joshua Davidovich
Prof. Michael Weintraub, former head of Hadassah Hospital's pediatric hemato-oncology department, attends a rally at the protest tent built in Jerusalem's Sacher Park by parents, June 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 21, 2017, 8:38 pm
Health minister accuses Jerusalem kids’ cancer doctors of ‘putsch’
Oncologists insist Hadassah Hospital management responsible for ongoing saga ‘of cynical, cruel, dangerous use of seriously sick children’
By Sue Surkes
Parents and young cancer patients from Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem, march in protest against Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and hospital CEO Zeev Rotstein in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 21, 2017, 4:08 pm
Hadassah’s hospital wars
Hebrew-language papers are dominated by the ongoing crisis between doctors and management at Jerusalem’s pediatric cancer ward
By Tamar Pileggi
A medical clown at Hadassah's pediatric hematology-oncology department in March, shortly after six doctors resigned. 'Today the clown is sad,' reads his sign (Screenshot Facebook)
June 16, 2017, 1:11 pm
Nurse at Hadassah cancer ward says hospital director is wrong, ‘kids are in danger’
Ten days after the doctors at the Jerusalem hospital’s pediatric hemato-oncology department left their jobs, chaos reigns
By Simona Weinglass
Families of patients from the pediatric hemato-oncology unit at Jerusalem‘s Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem, demonstrate in support of the unit‘s director Prof. Michael Weintraub, near the capital‘s Ministry of Health on February 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
June 14, 2017, 12:01 pm
PM to intervene in child cancer crisis, 3 months after doctors’ resignation
Netanyahu, health minister to try to resolve escalating battle after nurses warn that patients are in ‘mortal danger’
By Sue Surkes
Palestinian siblings Ahmed, right, and Hadeel Hamdan, center, watch medical clown who goes by the name 'Juhl' at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, May 13, 2015 (AP/Ariel Schalit)
June 12, 2017, 12:33 pm
Top Palestinian official donates to Israeli hospital that saved his life
Unnamed PA figure gives tens of thousands of shekels for kids’ playroom in cancer ward ‘to build peace through medicine’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of an in vitro fertilization lab. (CC BY-SA, Jayesh Amin, Wikimedia Commons)
April 25, 2017, 11:35 am
IVF babies have higher cancer risk, Israeli study says
Ben-Gurion U research shows pediatric cancer incidence rate greater among ‘test-tube kids’ than naturally conceived ones
By Shoshanna Solomon
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