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Premature birth may cause lifelong kidney damage, Israeli researchers find

A joint Australian-Israeli study identifies how premature birth disrupts kidney development, potentially leaving babies with a lifelong shortage of vital filtration units.

Doctors at Rambam Hospital use a new method for providing respiratory assistance to premature babies.
Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem

Grapevine: Remembering Enid Wurtman

DRAWING: MICHAEL sunk in the sand of the battlefield.

'I had not truly come home': Israeli psychologist turns Gaza, Lebanon battlefield trauma into art

Jerusalem's new light rail line

Two people injured after being hit by Jerusalem's new light rail next to Malha Mall


Grapevine August 16, 2023: Cut the talking

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG receives from Michael Oren his visionary book ‘2048: The Rejuvenated State.’

Hospital accidentally injects 5 pregnant women with rabies vaccine

The five pregnant women came to Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem for anti-D vaccination but were mistakenly given the "almost identical" rabies shot.

 A pregnant woman gets vaccinated (illustrative).

Doctors treat hypoglycemic lung cancer patient with breast cancer drug - study

The patient with malignant lung cancer suffered from a rare complication in which the tumor secretes a protein that causes acute hypoglycemia. Israeli doctors used a breast cancer drug to treat it.

 An illustrative image of lung cancer.

Israeli surgeons save newborn baby from rare ovarian torsion

Ovarian torsion is the most common complication of an untreated ovarian cyst. It is an emergency that must be treated as quickly as possible.

 In the photo from left: Dr. Shai Porat; Dr. Dan Arbel; and Noa Ofek-Shloma’i, with the baby in her arms.

What is the pacemaker implanted in PM Netanyahu?

Micra is for patients who suffer from bradycardia – a slow heartbeat (unlike tachycardia, which is a too-rapid heartbeat) and require a single-chamber pacemaker.

Virtual image of human heart

Heatwave warning: Sunburn cases surge as dry spell persists

The physicians warned that careless exposure to the sun, especially in the coming days of the heat wave, "is a real danger.”

Woman with sunburn (illustrative).

Diving instructor saved by unique procedure

A diving instructor was saved by a unique procedure in Jerusalem after being rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain.

 Barak Haruvi

8 east Jerusalem residents arrested for abusing mentally ill young man

The suspects livestreamed themselves laughing at the victim and making statements like "free Palestine" and "you son of a w****."

 Police arrest 8 eastern Jerusalem residents suspected of abusing a young man.

Survivors of terror attacks reunite - opinion

Singer wants to fill the VIP room at Hadassah Medical Center with other terror survivors from that period. A celebration of survival.

 SURVIVORS FROM that period: (from L) Dr. Gabby Elbaz-Greener, Aluma Mekaitan Guertzenstein, Dvir Musai, Sarri Singer, Adi Hudja Peretz, Moshe Frej, Gila Haleli Weiss.

Israel could save cancer patients with proton beams in new breakthrough

Experimental devices operated by Hadassah experts will save people from having to travel abroad for less-efficient, less-safe, and more expensive devices.

 P-Cure system in action