The Jerusalem Post, in its Monday, August 28th edition, reports that two Israeli hospitals, Sheba at Tel Hashomer and Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem, are the first in the country to routinely screen newborns for hearing problems before they’re discharged with their mothers from the hospital. Their programs have already put them in step with major hospitals in the U.S. and Europe. Sheba’s program was initiated some two years ago, while the Hadassah project, made possible by a designated annual donation of about $50,000, began in October last year and is run with help from young women performing National Service. Although the sister Hadassah-University Hospital on Mount Scopus delivers as many babies at the Ein Kerem medical center, it does not yet have the hearing-screening program.