In honor of Valentine’s Day, Head of the Maternity Ward and Delivery Room at Hillel Yaffe, Dr. Haim David, explains how oxytocin, also known as the hormone of love, influences the mother-infant relationship, and how to boost it
The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center Mental Health Services has recently opened the Gefen Clinic – a unique service for treatment of mental health among victims who experienced or are suffering from sexual trauma
Alma is a little girl who suffered for three weeks from severe pains in the lower part of her body, to the point that she could no longer stand. Only in the Hillel Yaffe Pediatrics Department was she diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome, and after the correct treatment she began to walk again
The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center Cardiac Division carried out a unique cardiac catheterization procedure, during which a special stent was inserted – offering a solution for patients suffering from chronic angina pectoris, for whom no effective treatment had been found in the past
The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center recently received an unusual donation, one which took 40 years to happen. The donation comes from money from the Hadera Doctors’ Fund for Scientific Activity and Mutual Assistance, collected in 1983 during the doctors’ strike for the doctors, by physicians in the region – the late Dr. Arthur Pachner and Dr. Avraham Wilder. The donation – of NIS 200,000 – is earmarked for scholarships for doctors at the beginning of their careers.
Dr. Dima Aru Zahalka and Dr. Maged Zahalka met in the corridors of the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, and from there they both continued on to internship at Hillel Yaffe. They are now both in the middle of their residency and spend their quality time in the cafeteria
Dr. Amit Hochberg has been appointed Director of the Newborn and Neonatal Care Department of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center. He replaces Dr. Michael Feldman, who retired.
Former Chair of the Subcommittee on Narrowing the Gaps Between the Center and the Periphery in the Budgeting of Medical Services, MK Ofir Katz, visited the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center to learn about the challenges facing the hospital from close up
The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, in association with the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, has published a public appeal for residents and interns to apply for the first group of the Hila Program for advancing and developing the next generation of medicine and research in Israel
The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center has begun using an innovative platform which enables transferring real time data from stroke patients to the mobile phone or computer, and allows a fast initial diagnosis which can be critical for treatment