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Blood samples from Covid-19 patients showed sicker patients had a high concentration of Alpha-defensin, a peptide involved in blood clots formation. Researchers around the world have been puzzled by a deadly Covid-19 complication: blood clots that can cause swollen legs, rashes and even sudden death. More than 30 percent of Covid-19 patients suffer from blood clots, which create lethal blockages in the lungs, kidneys, heart and brain. Dr. Abd Al-Roof Higazi, head of the Division of Laboratories and Department of Clinical Biochemistry at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, has found the mechanism that causes the clots. Higazi and colleagues...

Hadassah Medical Center issued an update Sunday morning on the conditions of the terror victims currently being treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem and Hadassah Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. The 20-year-old IDF soldier who was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Hevron on Saturday evening is now in light condition after undergoing surgery overnight. Two patients remain hospitalized after suffering wounds in the brutal knife and gun attack on Tuesday aboard a bus traveling in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. A 76-year-old man remains in critical condition from that attack, while a 69-year-old woman's condition has been defined as moderate. A 79-year-old...

The political debate sponsored by Hadassah, scheduled for Sept. 12, has been canceled -- by Hadassah. Tom Trento, a fervent Israel supporter and leading critic of Islam, and I were to present the Republican viewpoint on President Obama's performance on all issues, while two prominent local Democrats were prepared to give their take. Fair and balanced, with Kingsley Guy, a former editor and now op-ed writer for the Sun Sentinel, was to serve as moderator. The press had advertised it, tickets for the event had been sold, and it seemed to be a go. Trento’s ties to a conservative group...

According to a recent article, Hadassah congratulated President Obama for dictating that the government take over the contraception and abortion business. One wonders what in the world a group calling itself The Women’s Zionist Organization of America is doing in the health care field. "Zionist" pertains to Jewry, Israel and the preservation of the Jewish people. Either change the name of the group or focus on dealing with Zionism and all that it stands for. You can't have it both ways. Getting involved in the issue of public funding for contraception and abortion is a "no win" for Hadassah. It...

The Knesset’s Labor, Welfare and Health Committee is holding a discussion Tuesday on the repeated attacks by Arabs on Hadassah Hospital at Har HaTzofim (Mt. Scopus). In the lead-up to the debate, an interesting discussion regarding the possible culpability of Eskimos has developed. ..... Another physician member of the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, MK Dr. Afu Agbariya of the communist Hadash party, protested in a letter to the committee that the attackers might not be Arabs at all. “How can the committee determine that the rocks were thrown by Arabs before the relevant bodies’ responses are heard?”, he asked....

A liberal Web site is trying to enlist celebrities to persuade a top breast cancer research group to dump Sen. Joe Lieberman's wife as its "global ambassador," saying Hadassah Lieberman's health care lobbying work and her husband's opposition to the so-called public option make her unfit for the role.

Mary Noonan of the University of Iowa is still concerned about the acceptance of the importance of a woman's career. "People still buy into the stereotypes of what it means to be a good wife. It means that caring for your children and supporting your husband's career is viewed as a wife's main priority," she said. Ms Noonan should have a discussion with the folks at the Daily Kos, as the progressives in the number one liberal website are suggesting that Hadassah Lieberman should be removed from her job because of the political actions of her husband. Yesterday Joe Lieberman...

Neurologists at Jerusalem's Hadassah-University Hospital, Ein Kerem, are the first in the world to help multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients by injecting their spinal columns with large numbers of adult stem cells taken from their bone marrow and multiplied in culture. The clinical trial, while "encouraging" and "promising," remains highly experimental, as all the patients have undergone a single injection with no untreated control group for comparison. With the first patients having received it two years ago, it is too early to know how successful it will be in the long term. Prof. Dimitrios Karousis, a...

Israel and New Jersey jibe when it comes to stem cell research: They're two of the few places in the world that support embryonic stem-cell research. About 70 women from the Clifton-based North Jersey chapter of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, met on Thursday night to learn about stem cell research and consider donating money to the group's research unit within the Hadassah Medical Organization near Jerusalem. "It's ironic that Israel and Hadassah are positioned perfect for this," said Barry Schindler, patent attorney and guest speaker for the event, held at the Montclair Art Museum. In the U.S.,...

This week, Georgetown University began announcing the Fifth Annual Student Palestine Solidarity Conference on the University’s website using the same rhetoric that Duke University used in announcing a similar event almost two years ago. The Conference is being billed as a testimonial to the exercise of "freedom of speech" and the participants are telling everyone they are "peace activists" even though they refuse to condemn terrorism. And, in true form, Al-Awda, one of the main organizations of the ISM, immediately dispatched an open email to its membership. The following email was sent out as an “open letter” by Al Awda...

Mar. 2, 2005 21:29 | Updated Mar. 3, 2005 4:52 Hadassah nominated for Nobel prize By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Cited for its promotion of Jewish-Arab cooperation and human values despite the ongoing violence in the region it serves, the Hadassah Medical Organization has been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The unnamed four nominators, who by Norwegian Nobel Committee rules can come only from the ranks of senior government officials or professors in their countries, are in the US, Canada, Australia and Israel. The previous Israeli Nobel Peace Prize laureates were Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres...

New York Mayor Pops Over To Jerusalem 16:03 Nov 24, '03 / 29 Cheshvan 5764Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and his 95-year-old mother Charlotte have arrived in Israel for a visit of a few hours. In honor of Charlotte's birthday, the family has donated an unspecified sum to build another three stories for what will be known as the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. The mayor and his mother will take part in the inauguration ceremony. "This is really some story," said journalist Uri Dan. "For Charlotte, who was long...

Keren Hasseyod staged an event yesterday evening at the Jewish Community center in Frankfurt. There were two speakers, Esther Schapira and Dr. Dorit Nitzan of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Ms. Schapira, a freelance journalist/producer with ARD TV in Germany, talked about the responses she received after her documentary about the shooting of a Palestinian boy in the Gaza strip was aired. That shooting, of a young Arab boy named Mohammed Durra, came at the beginning of the second Intifada and quickly became a symbol for anti-Israeli people everywhere to rally around. In her research, Schapira discovered that the bullets fired...