The new building, which will double the size of the existing hospital, also includes a two-floor fortified emergency hospital against conventional, biological and chemical warfare and includes the neonatal department with private rooms and a therapeutic garden. The building will be inhabited in...

13-year-old's life saved after a liver transplant conducted at Schneider Children's Medical Center In a moving ceremony which did not leave a dry eye, the organ transplant team said farewell to 13-year-old Ilona who arrived at the hospital several months ago from Ukraine to undergo an urgent liver...

41 organ transplants and 36 bone marrow transplants were conducted at Schneider Children's Medical Center during 5782 Schneider Children's summarizes the Jewish year of 5782 as a year of productivity, clinical and research successes alongside humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian children during...

Children hospitalized at Schneider Children's share their thoughts at the Patient's Council, the first of its kind Over the past few years, the involvement of the public has become more common throughout the world on both private and public levels. This is also true in many global health...

The Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, visited Schneider Children's this morning together with a delegation of senior staff from his office. During his visit, he met with Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev, CEO of Schneider Children's, Dr. Omer Niv, Deputy Director, Dr. Sivan Ahituv, Deputy Director, Adi...

“I visited the Oncology Department at American Friends of Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel. I met true heroes there, that could teach us all a few important lessons about recognizing and appreciating the good in life. I also met a staff of angels, the team at the hospital, who wake up...

The first Caesarian section performed by the Israeli team in the "Shining Star" field hospital in Ukraine received a dramatic turnaround when the newly born infant started to turn blue and needed urgent life-saving attention. The operation was performed in a hospital next to the field hospital, a...

Schneider Children's Medical Center welcomed the Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel, Mr. Yevgeny Kornichuk, who was accompanied by Mr. Michael Brodsky, Ambassador of Israel to Ukraine. During the visit, the guests met with Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev, CEO of Schneider Children's, who told them about the...

This week, Israel set up a field hospital in Ukraine near the Polish border. Dr. Michael Segal and Dr. Adam Goldstein join Andrea Mitchell to share their experiences treating trauma cases at the elementary school turned hospital. “Our goal here is to help the refugee population, the local...

Israeli physicians and Jewish groups are assisting thousands of non-Jews across Ukraine deal with the effects of the Russian invasion into that country. Near Lviv in Ukraine’s west, a field hospital set up this week by the Israeli government with physicians and nurses from the Schneider Children’s...

The group is part of the "Shining Star" Mission and will be in charge of the pediatric section of the Israeli field hospital set up there The medical team from Schneider Children's Medical Center comprises 9 members of 4 pediatricians and 5 nurses, accompanied by another doctor from Soroka...

Research Conducted at AFS has uncovered the causes for developing one of the most lethal types of Leukemia For the first time in the history of science, researchers manipulated normal human blood cells to become malignant leukemia cells, using advanced technologies in genetic engineering, and were...

International research led by Prof. Avi Beigelman of AFS finds that antibiotics given to insfants hospitalized with RSV are not effective in preventing asthma and recurrent wheezing episodes "It is even possible that there is an increased risk of recurrent wheezing as a result of the use of...

A mother of 7 donates a kidney to 8-year old she doesn’t know, and saves the girl’s life. A usually healthy child, Pari's condition deteriorated to life-threatening kidney failure due to a congenital disease of which all were altogether unaware; the kidney transplant was conducted at AFS via the...

Last week, an 11-year-old girl hospitalized at AFS, where she was connected to the ECMO machine for over 40 days, asked the staff to go outside to the sunshine. The moment that the sun peeked through the clouds, the attending team (doctor, nurse and ECMO operators) organized and with great...

The invitation to the First Abraham's Children Conference was presented to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi as a gift from the President of the State of Israel, Yitzhak Herzog, during his presidential visit to the UAE: An unusual gift was presented to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed ben...

The operations took place as part of "Colorectal Week" led by Dr. Inbal Samuk and with the participation of Dr. Mark Levitt, world-renowned surgeon from Washington Children's Hospital "Colorectal Week" took place at Schneider Children's under the aegis of the Pediatric Surgery Department headed by...

Arpeh Huamada, a 16 1⁄2-year-old soccer player from Beer Sheba, underwent an emergency transplant of an artificial heart at AFS to save his life. During one of his soccer training sessions, Arpeh felt ill. After being examined by a doctor, he was found to be suffering from myocarditis...

AFTER YEARS OF ANTICIPATION: The Artificial Pancreas System, made by Meditronic, comprising technology developed by American Friends of Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel in cooperation with DreaMed Diabetes has been included in the 2022 Health Basket of the Israeli Ministry of Health...

Dear Mindy and Michael, Today, October 29, 2021, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel turns 30 years old! What a fantastic achievement and indeed a meaningful milestone in the annals of pediatric medicine in Israel. The hospital has changed the face of paediatrics in Israel literally, and...