hadassah hospital

Patients, families suffer due to lack of transparency

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Prof. Mayer Brezis has dedicated most of his professional life to preventing medical errors. A trained nephrologist, he served as the longtime director of a Center for Quality and Safety at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem and taught evidence-based medicine and public health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Sadly, in 2021, his own grandson … Read more

Reimagining neurological treatments: A brain on a chip

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Mice are most often used as animal models for medical research because they breed rapidly, and using them is not considered inhumane if they’re treated kindly; using monkeys, whose genome is closer to ours, is impossible. However, especially in the realm of neurological and psychiatric disorders, traditional drug development methods are failing us. Animal … Read more