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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.

Medicine: Breakthrough in the Blink of the Eye

Less than an inch across and barely 0.02 inches thick, the retina is where the future of medicine is being shaped. This plate-shaped layer of

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Medicine: A Dream Becomes Reality

by Wendy Elliman

Jerusalemites are a conservative bunch. The now popular Knesset building was disliked for a decade following its 1966 inauguration, and the jury is still out

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Medicine: Equality Down to the Marrow

by Wendy Elliman

Last June, the popular Saudi Arabian daily Al-Watan had something positive to say about its regional neighbor. Columnist Fawaz al-’Ilmi told readers that “the only registry in

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Medicine: Fire in the Belly

by Wendy Elliman

Generals know that an army marches on its stomach, and pre- (and even post-) feminists frequently route their way to a man’s heart through his

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Medicine: Natural Birthdays

by Wendy Elliman

In Alabama 100 years ago, midwives wrapped a laboring woman in her husband’s shirt and cap, so his energy could help her with the birth.

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Medicine: Ending Epilepsy With a Map

by Wendy Elliman

As her chest tightened and her surroundings segued into slow motion, Yelena knew what was coming. Unable to help herself, her head jerked sharply left.

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Medicine: A Race That All Will Win

by Wendy Elliman

Jerusalem’s streets have known the tramp of Assyrians, Babylonians and Greeks, of Romans, Byzantines and Crusaders, Gay Priders and political protesters, of the disabled and

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Commentary: Our Bodies, Our Homes

by Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon

I recently spent two nights with my sister and her husband, Joshua Cahan, at a private beach house on the Pacific. The trip was a

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