| What's New? |
| | | | | Internal Medicine D joins the three existing internal medicine departments at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, and will help relieve their extremely heavy patient load. Dr. Nina Avashovitz, the director of the new department: "we are aware of the many challenges facing us and shall be actively striving for excellence” 10/04/2011 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | Only at Hillel Yaffe: A unique initiative for the hospital’s Endocrinology Unit for early identification of osteoporosis, the bone loss disease, and assisting proper healing after fracture surgery 27/03/2011 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | Hillel Yaffe Medical Center joined the ranks of the few Medical Centers worldwide that carry out stomach surgery to rectify a reflux [heartburn] problem, and also surgery to narrow the stomach by a state of the art technique that obviates the necessity for making incisions and enables surgery to be performed by means of a gastro-scopic technique 7/03/2011 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | The Deputy Minister of Health, Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, and senior members of the management of the Ministry of Health, visited the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center last week. Minister Litzman promised the Hospital's Director, Professor Meir Oren: "I will do all I can in order to provide solutions for the matters and the problems presented by the Hospital" 20/02/2011 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | New research carried out at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center has found that the possibility definitely exists. The implications of this are that a future possibility exists of the growth of normal sperm cells from these stem-cells 8/02/2011 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | A delegation from the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, headed by Prof. Meir Oren, returned this week from an official visit to the Centeral Hospital of De Yang, in Szechwan, China 1/02/2011 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | OPMD is a genetic disease common amongst the Jews of Bukhara, which causes drooping eyelids and difficulty in swallowing. In an international symposium on the subject held at HYMC specialists from around the world met to discuss the various aspects of the disease 2/12/2010 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | The woman in her 27th week of pregnancy was rushed to an emergency Ceasarean section. The twins were both healthy, but their mother's situation declined very quickly due to a massive hemorrhage. A multi-disciplinary team – and 107 transfusions – rapidly saved her life 30/11/2010 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | Unique research conducted by the Ophthalmology Department at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center identified the most common cause of vision loss in diabetics. Meaning: optimizing treatment, to improve the quality of vision in these patients 15/11/2010 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
| | | | | | HYMC sums up an exceptionally successful year. Not only did we launch the new hospital building, but we would like to note impressive medical achievements, a rise in activity, incorporation of advanced technologies, new services and clinics for the community, and even a new website 6/09/2010 | | ![](_Pics/Pixel.gif) |
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