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Why Vaccines Matter
Vaccines are widely considered by the medical community to be one of the greatest achievements in public health.

Vaccines are widely considered by the medical community to be one of the greatest achievements in public health.
Israeli Scene
The Promised Land of Medical Marijuana
With eight farms authorized to cultivate marijuana and pending legislation to ease access to the drug, Israel’s cannabis industry is one of the most advanced in the world.

With eight farms authorized to cultivate marijuana and pending legislation to ease access to the drug, Israel’s cannabis industry is one of the most advanced in
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A ‘Champion of Change’ for Cystic Fibrosis
Through her precision medicine advocacy, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is working to defeat cystic fibrosis—and racing to save her life.

Through her precision medicine advocacy, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is working to defeat cystic fibrosis—and racing to save her life.
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Center of Operations
Hadassah’s new surgical complex not only boasts the latest in surgical technologies, it is also designed to accommodate new tools as they are developed.

Hadassah’s new surgical complex boasts the latest in surgical technologies and is designed to accommodate new tools as they are developed.

Haverut, a program started at HMO, not only uses the arts to distract or manage patients but also to help them create a new formula for living.

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Headphones for Senior Hearing Loss

by Alexandra Lapkin Schwank

Wireless headphones are helping seniors affected by hearing loss reengage with their community—at lectures, performances and other cultural events.

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Book That Surgery on Archimedicx

by Randi O'Connor

Like AirBnB for hospital visits, Archimedicx aims to provide access to the world's top hospitals, providing the ultimate in comparison health care shopping.

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Hope for ALS Sufferers

by Wendy Elliman

A new treatment for the devastating and fatal disease known as ALS has completed its first clinical trials at Hadassah Hospital.

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‘Years of Life’ for Italian Engineer with ALS

by Ruth Ellen Gruber

In 2013, doctors in Italy told Daniele Rinaldo that he had only a few months to live. The Venice-based civil engineer had been diagnosed with ALS.

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9-1-1 International: Hadassah in Nepal

by Wendy Elliman

One of the first international relief teams to reach quake-stricken Nepal traveled 5,000 miles to do so. On Monday morning, 30 hours after the catastrophe, a 747 airplane