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Helping Children Deal With Trauma
Young victims of pandemic stress learn coping strategies at Hadassah Hospital.

Young victims of pandemic stress learn coping strategies at Hadassah Hospital.
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A Perfect Match: Donating a Kidney to a Stranger
Every day in America, 13 people die waiting for a kidney. Often their best hope—their only hope—is to find a living donor.

Every day in America, 13 people die waiting for a kidney. Often their best hope—their only hope—is to find a living donor.

Over the past 10 years, the number of patients assigned to the ICU has increased, and Hadassah is actively developing the technology and the space

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Medicine: The Age of e-Patients

by Wendy Elliman

More and more Israeli adolescents, both Jewish and Arab, are becoming e-patients—health consumers who use the Internet to learn about their health issues and, often,

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Medicine: Changing a Nation’s Diet

by Wendy Elliman

You are a week into your latest diet, which is based on sound nutritional principles. Or maybe you are following a fad diet that worked

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Medicine: Israel’s Aids Model

by Wendy Elliman

In Israel, it has never reached epidemic proportions, but an Israeli hospital has developed a care model for HIV/AIDS that is effectively used not only

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Medicine: Drumming, Jumping and Cystic Fibrosis

by Wendy Elliman

It is a story with more than one starting point. One possibility is in 1998, when Shuki Shukrun’s sister met Tali and told her brother

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Medicine: Mind Over Skin

by Wendy Elliman

A young man is injured during his Israel Defense Forces service. Two weeks later, his wound is healing, but patches of skin all over his

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Profile: Ruth Faden

by Barbara Pash

When Ruth Faden looks back on her long career, she can pinpoint the moment she decided to go into public health. She was doing her