Search Results for: medical clowns

Medical clowns help children with pneumonia

Posted on November 24, 2024

At last, a positive Israel story from the New Scientist. It is known that medical clown reduce stress and anxiety in hospitalized children. Now Israel’s Carmel Medical Center found that medical clowns shorten the time children with pneumonia spend in … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Medical clowns are not just for children

Posted on July 2, 2023

Latest video featuring Israel’s Dream Doctors – clowns who promote healing through laughter. They “operate” in Israeli hospitals, but also in disaster areas where they bring hope to children, adults, and doctors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez5fdqAIbwM

Posted in Israel is Inclusive & Global | Leave a comment

Proven benefits of medical clowns

Posted on January 15, 2023

IsraelActive.com (see here) contains over a dozen articles describing how Israeli medical clowns help hospital patients. Now Tel Aviv University researchers have documented 40 different skills that the clowns deploy to enable patients to overcome crises and move towards healing. … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Medical clowns aid Ukrainian refugees

Posted on April 3, 2022

The huge numbers of Israeli volunteers aiding refugees from Ukraine in Moldova include the medical clowns of Dream Doctors (see here previously). Their costumes, big red noses and funny antics light up the faces of exhausted Ukrainian women, children, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Medical clowns tackle coronavirus

Posted on May 10, 2020

Israel’s 600 medical clowns have been lifting the spirits of the elderly, medical staff and their children. Keeping 2 meters apart, they now use dramatic hand and body movements to communicate and decorate their face masks with stickers of crazy … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Promoting medical clowns in India

Posted on December 22, 2019

This article highlights the visit by Israel’s Nir Raz to promote the introduction of medical clown therapy to children’s wards at hospitals in India. Raz emphasized that in Israel, almost every hospital has a medical clown. The therapy strengthens children’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel is Inclusive & Global | Leave a comment

Israeli medical clowns at Chinese hospitals

Posted on August 23, 2015

Israeli medical clowns from “Dream Doctors” visited seven hospitals and orphanages in Chengdu, southwestern China. In colorful clown costumes and with big red noses, they sang songs, played ukulele, performed magic tricks and blew bubbles in the wards to cheer … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Medical clowns are seriously good

Posted on October 30, 2011

The International Conference on Medicine and Medical Clowning is taking place currently in Jerusalem. Clown therapy is becoming one of Israel’s most important exports. http://haifadiarist.blogspot.com/2011/10/one-of-biggest-israeli-exports-will-be.html

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Israel hosts congress for medical clowns

Posted on September 25, 2011

At least 200 medical clowns from America, Europe and Australia will attend the October convention. Dream Doctors, funded by Magi Foundation, helped set up the world’s only undergraduate degree program in clown therapy as a paramedical profession at the University … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment

Clowns relieve the ultimate pain

Posted on February 1, 2025

This article features medical clowns alleviating both physical and mental suffering – for children and adults. (Aside, I went to see a friend in hospital recently who was visited by clowns while he was on a video call to his … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel's Medical Achievements | Leave a comment