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For the first time in Israel, doctors at Hadassah’s Heart Institute used an innovative catheterization tool to successfully perform a new procedure on a 72 years old woman suffering from severe and uncontrolled chronic hypertension (high blood pressure). The minimally invasive outpatient procedure, which takes only 40 minutes to perform, blocks the over functioning nerves and permanently lowers blood pressure. |
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The results of a three-year study published recently in the prestigious American Journal of Human Genetics highlighted the importance of the identification of a gene that plays a major role in sexual development and its contribution to existing knowledge of genes that affect ovarian development and the ovulation process.
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Author: Eli |
Date: 12.12.2011
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The results of a three-year study published recently in the prestigious American Journal of Human Genetics highlighted the importance of the identification of a gene that plays a major role in sexual development and its contribution to existing knowledge of genes that affect ovarian development and the ovulation process.
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Date: 12.12.2011
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Research conducted at the Hadassah University Medical Center and recently published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, demonstrates that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is more effective than drug therapy in preventing the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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Author: Eli |
Date: 12.12.2011
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Hadassah University Medical Center: Israeli Specialists Trained in Groundbreaking Surgical Technique
An innovative procedure to remove cancerous tumors from the gastrointestinal tract was performed at the Hadassah University Medical Center’s Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases recently. Using special instruments inserted through an endoscope – a surgical tool used to examine body cavities – surgeons ‘peeled’ the lesion from the gastrointestinal wall.
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Date: 12.12.2011
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Results of a unique clinical trial conducted at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem indicate that Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy in conjunction with brief exposure to trauma cues is safe and effective for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). TMS is a non-invasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain. |
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Prof. Jacob Pe’er, head of Ophthalmology at the Hadassah University Medical Center, has been named Vice President-Elect of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the largest eye and vision research organization in the world, with 12,500 researchers from over 80 countries. Prof. Pe’er’s fields of clinical expertise are general ophthalmology, ocular oncology, ocular pathology, and pediatric ophthalmology. A member of ARVO since 1983, he has chaired its Anatomy Pathology Section Program Committee and International Members Committee and served as a member of the association’s Long-Range Planning Committee.
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Hadassah Medical Center Spokesperson Undergoes Successful Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery at Hadassah
Yael Bossem-Levy, spokesperson for the Hadassah University Medical Center, underwent successful Deep Brain Stimulation surgery to relieve the tremors she suffered from her slowly progressive neurological disorder. Ironically, she had arranged for an Israeli television crew to film Israel’s first Deep Brain Stimulation procedure on a Parkinson’s patient—at Hadassah—many years ago.
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Three Hadassah University Medical Center physicians have been honored for their contributions to medicine: Prof. Neri Laufer (far left), Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dr. Yehuda Ginosar (center), Director of the Mother and Child Anesthesia Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; and Prof. Eithan Galun, Director of the Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy.
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The Government of Israel and the Israel Council for Higher Education have established Israeli Centers of Research Excellence (I-Core) to strengthen scientific research in Israel. Prof. Eitan Galun, Director of Hadassah’s Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, has been chosen to co-chair the molecular medicine scientific group, working with Prof. Chaim Cedar, Professor of Molecular Biology, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine.
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Date: 29.08.2011
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