Gynecologic oncologist Margaret Liang, MD, has joined the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Division of Gynecologic Oncology, providing care and clinical services for patients within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She also joins as director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program.
Cedars-Sinai Spine, together with Och Spine at New York-Presbyterian, will kick off the inaugural Summer Spine Symposium in Park City, Utah, this month. The symposium will be held July 13-16.
New research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators could warrant reconsideration of current screening guidelines to include a poorly recognized cause of Lynch syndrome, the most common cause of hereditary colorectal and endometrial cancers.
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 10 health-tech companies from around the world to its ninth accelerator class. The businesses are building a variety of healthcare solutions—from monitoring devices for sepsis, heart failure and stroke, to virtual reality video games aimed at helping children manage pain and anxiety during medical procedures.
Record rain this winter wreaked havoc on Los Angeles area hiking trails, damaging roads and dumping snow at lower elevations than normal. As the weather heats up, and the last of the snow melts, day hikers should plan ahead to avoid on-trail hazards caused by the unusually heavy rainy season.
Building on its visionary investment in Cedars-Sinai’s neurosurgery scholarship program, The Ray Charles Foundation has donated a second gift of $1 million to support critical training and research to advance the neurosciences.
A twin baby boom has taken over the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, with 10 sets of twins in the unit at the same time. Healthcare workers aren’t sure if it’s an official record, but it sure is close.
A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai for June 2023.
COVID-19 vaccination helped reduce disparities in disease incidence between low- and high-income communities, according to a new analysis led by Cedars-Sinai investigators.
Cedars-Sinai patient care teams are preparing to offer lecanemab, a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment expected to soon receive approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to patients in the coming months.
Expertos de Cedars-Sinai, BlackDoctors.org, California Black Women's Health Project y Morehouse School of Medicine recientemente participaron en una discusión que abordó la alta tasa de muertes relacionadas con el embarazo entre las madres negras.
Experts from Cedars-Sinai, BlackDoctors.org, the California Black Women’s Health Project and the Morehouse School of Medicine participated in a recent discussion that addressed the high rate of pregnancy-related deaths among Black mothers.
The summit is a good place to be. Staying active on the hiking trails around the southern highlands of Australia, where he retired earlier this year after a career in film marketing, Jon Anderson is feeling there’s little he can’t conquer.
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease characterized by thickening and scarring of the skin and vital organs, and the narrowing of the blood vessels which lead to poor circulation.
For many patients with hypertension—an elevated blood pressure that can lead to stroke or heart attack—medication keeps the condition at bay. But what happens when medication that physicians usually prescribe doesn’t work? Known as apparent resistant hypertension (aRH), this form of high blood pressure requires more medication and medical management.
It’s summertime and California hiking trails are beckoning. But along with lusher than usual greenery due to this year’s heavy rains, the hills are alive with ticks and fleas. The Cedars-Sinai Newsroom talked with Priya Soni, MD, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, about how to avoid and minimize ticks and flea bites.
Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS, an internationally recognized pediatric hematologist-oncologist and sarcoma expert, has been appointed director of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s and as medical director of the Sarcoma Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.
As men age, some of their cells lose the very thing that makes them biological males—the Y chromosome—and this loss hampers the body’s ability to fight cancer, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer.
Cedars-Sinai y BlackDoctor.org organizarán una importante conversación virtual sobre el estado de la salud materna negra. La discusión, una serie continua de conversaciones sobre salud llamada “Abrazando a nuestra comunidad: ¡EN VIVO!”, abordará la preocupante tasa de muertes relacionadas con el embarazo entre las madres negras, una disparidad que los expertos nacionales ayudarán a explorar.
Later this summer, staff members at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital will spring into action when a pretend patient comes to the Emergency Department with symptoms of a virus like Ebola, one of the deadliest, most infectious diseases on the planet.
Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified several steps in a cellular process responsible for triggering one of the body’s important inflammatory responses. Their findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Immunology, open up possibilities for modulating the type of inflammation associated with several infections and inflammatory diseases.
Cedars-Sinai and BlackDoctor.org will host an important virtual conversation about the state of Black maternal health.
Los resultados largamente esperados de los procedimientos transcatéter de extremo a extremo para reparar las válvulas mitrales con fugas revelaron que el procedimiento mínimamente invasivo es seguro y eficaz en cerca del 90 % de los pacientes, de acuerdo a los médicos y científicos de Cedars-Sinai.
Nicole M. Mitchell, Cedars-Sinai’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, is available for interviews to discuss the significance and growth of Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day.
Physicians at Cedars-Sinai Cancer are using a unique chemotherapy delivery system that offers hope to colorectal cancer patients whose disease has spread and who now have inoperable liver tumors. Cedars-Sinai is one of the few centers in the area to offer the therapy, called hepatic artery infusion (HAI) pump chemotherapy.
Carlos Rene Valdez’s dance through life was interrupted by a cancer diagnosis, but it was the struggle to move on after recovery that ended his career and threatened his life. Wellness, Resilience and Survivorship programming, a part of the Patient and Family Support Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer, gave him his life back.
Cedars-Sinai investigators studying the effects of space on stem cells will present their work at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting June 14-17 in Boston, and are available for interviews throughout the conference.
For children who develop severe scoliosis—a spine that curves and twists to the side—surgery or a corrective brace worn throughout the day might be their only options. But if caught early enough, the condition can often be treated in a less invasive or awkward way.
Cedars-Sinai endocrinologists will share their latest medical research and clinical care improvements at ENDO 2023, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, June 15-18.
New research from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows that patients who went to a hospital with a heart attack and were simultaneously sick with COVID-19 were three times more likely to die than patients experiencing a heart attack without a COVID-19 infection.
Cedars-Sinai clinicians and scientists, including Medawar Prize winner Stanley Jordan, MD, and prominent nephrology and immunology investigator Peter Heeger, MD, will share their latest advances in research at the American Transplant Congress (ATC), June 3-7, 2023, in San Diego.
A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai in May 2023.
The school year is winding down, summer is around the corner and that means more children are splashing into swimming pools, whether in a backyard, at summer camp, or at recreation center pools.
Todo lo que los médicos e investigadores saben acerca de la medicina, desde qué medicamentos recetar hasta cómo realizar las cirugías, se basa en la investigación. Pero durante décadas, la mayor parte de este trabajo ha dejado de lado a las participantes femeninas.
Cedars-Sinai has opened a new LGBTQ+ Center, bringing together specialists in primary care, pediatrics, transgender surgery, reconstructive surgery and anal cancer screening to meet the needs of patients in an inclusive and culturally sensitive setting.
Cedars-Sinai Cancer physician-scientists with expertise in liver, skin, lung, breast, colorectal, pancreatic, brain, prostate and endometrial cancers will be attending the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting June 2-6 in Chicago and are available for in-person or virtual interviews to discuss the latest news and research.
Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer, working in collaboration with colleagues in Colorado and the Netherlands, have identified a specific type of bladder cancer most likely to resist first-line treatment.
Cedars-Sinai has appointed Bryan Croft as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and as chief executive officer of Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital. The appointment is effective June 3.
Long-awaited outcomes data of transcatheter edge-to-edge procedures to repair patients’ leaky mitral valves revealed the minimally invasive procedure to be safe and effective in nearly 90% of patients, according to Cedars-Sinai physician-scientists.
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found that women who experience an adverse pregnancy outcome—such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia or preterm birth—have a higher risk of developing stroke in their lifetime, and at a younger age.
Blood vessel abnormalities in the eye are a major factor in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, according to research from Cedars-Sinai investigators published in the peer-reviewed journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.
Investigadores de Cedars-Sinai han identificado una variante genética que aumenta el riesgo de las personas de desarrollar la enfermedad de Crohn perianal, la manifestación más debilitante de la enfermedad de Crohn.
Most new mothers experience one or more changes in their mood before childbirth and for two weeks after the baby arrives.
The Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has earned accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association, becoming one of only six programs in California and just 50 in the U.S. to be awarded the organization’s highest distinction.
Physician-scientists from Cedars-Sinai Cancer are available for interviews to discuss the new draft recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that women at average risk for breast cancer should have a mammogram every other year beginning at age 40.
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai Cancer found that fatty liver, a condition closely associated with obesity, promotes the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver. Their study, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism, details the process at the cellular level and could change the way doctors manage the disease in some patients.
El Departamento de Biomedicina Computacional de Cedars-Sinai recientemente refinó su enfoque en el avance de la inteligencia artificial y el aprendizaje automatizado al establecer el Centro de Investigación y Educación de Inteligencia Artificial.
The Cedars-Sinai Department of Computational Biomedicine recently sharpened its focus on advancing artificial intelligence and machine learning by establishing the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education.
Next Sunday will be the first Mother’s Day that Cedars-Sinai pediatrician Tracy Zaslow faces without her mother, Carol, by her side.
En Cedars-Sinai, hay otra gran razón para donar sangre: lo que muchos consideran la parte más dolorosa del proceso—la punción en el dedo de una aguja para medir el nivel de hemoglobina—ya tiene otra opción.
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