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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.

The story begins with a 16-year-old boy who first hears of a cutting-edge technology on television and grows up to not only operate the machine

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Medicine: Clinical Imaging, Courtesy of Hollywood

by Wendy Elliman

Click the mouse to bring a three-dimensional human figure onto the screen. Click again, and the figure rotates. Another click, and the skin melts off

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Medicine: Detecting Child Abuse

by Wendy Elliman

During his first six months at the pediatric emergency unit of a busy Tel Aviv-area hospital, Dr. Yoram Ben Yehuda saw not one instance of

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Medicine: A Transplanted Doctor and His…Transplants

by Wendy Elliman

The patient was 30 years old and he was dying. His liver—scarred beyond repair by cirrhosis that followed a hepatitis B infection 18 years earlier—was

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Medicine: Hospitals in Hard Times

by Wendy Elliman

Whether you call it financial slowdown or economic meltdown, whether you believe we are still in freefall or inching toward recovery, what is beyond argument

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Generations: Still Nursing After All These Years

by Wendy Elliman

Passing on their knowledge to a new generation, two Hadassah nurses are changing the way Israel looks at the unsung heroes of the medical profession.

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Medicine: Saving Lives and Livers

by Wendy Elliman

One in three people worldwide is infected with the hepatitis B virus at some point in his or her life. Most will successfully rout the

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Medicine: Where the Wild Things Are Healed

by Wendy Elliman

Hadassah is well-known for its skill in treating the ailments of Israel’s human patients, but its doctors have also come to the aid of the