Rick Hansen raised his hands in victory when crossing the Allenby bridge from Jordan to the West Bank, this Wednesday. And for good reason. Rick is Canada’s leading advocate for spinal cord injury research, and Hebrew University has arguably the world’s best resources for  medical research. Together they signed an agreement on December 1,2010 -  [...]

A new, safe and uncomplicated insect control method, developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, can bring about a serious decline in malaria-bearing mosquitoes in afflicted regions in the world. Research carried out in Mali, West Africa, by the Kuvin Center for the Study of Tropical and Infectious Diseases at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem  [...]

Prof. Raphael Meshoulam, discovered trans-delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabis in 1964. The compound increase forgetfulness in mice. While memory loss is normally a bad thing, medicine has found a way to apply it in a beneficial way! Many Canadian war veterans from the Iraq war suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder which is compounded by the fact [...]

To do the job properly, one must have the proper tools. That was the message of the African participants in a week-long workshop in February of Pears Foundation alumni of the International Master of Public Health program of the Braun Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine. A feature of the workshop was [...]

A section of an ancient city wall of Jerusalem from the tenth century B.C.E. – possibly built by King Solomon — has been revealed in archaeological excavations directed by Dr. Eilat Mazar and conducted under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The section of the city wall revealed, 70 meters long and six [...]

We know exactly where an object is when we say it is “within the reach of our hand.”  But if we don’t have a hand, can we still see the object just where it is? Apparently not, say researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus. The space within reach of our [...]