Cedars-Sinai announced that it has become one of 56 Charter Members of a new multi-national network, created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, MA, to improve health care quality.
The 17th annual Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular will bring together the greatest names in sports and entertainment to join their peers in helping children suffering from genetic birth defects. Honorees are Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds, and Los Angeles Sparks leader Lisa Leslie.
A Duncanville, TX, construction manager is one of the first in Texas to have an olfactory groove meningioma (benign brain tumor) removed in a minimally invasive procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Skull Base Institute in Los Angeles.
At just 20 pounds, Baby Dylan Worthen, 13 months, is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's smallest and youngest kidney transplant recipient. He successfully underwent a living donor kidney transplant on May 21, and went home from the hospital today, just one week and two days after his transplant.
Las Vegas area residents with an interest in adult and pediatric brain tumors will have an opportunity to attend a free national conference presented by the highly renowned Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have identified what may be a major step toward providing significantly more effective drug therapy for patients suffering from brain tumors.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center report that a new imaging test identified the cause of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in the majority of patients unable to be diagnosed with conventional imaging methods.
An experimental pill has been found to improve symptoms and quality of life in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, according to research findings presented by the Acting Medical Director at Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, and lead author of the study.
Dental x-rays may provide a new tool to screen for potentially life-threatening heart conditions and stroke, according to research presented by the Director of the Stroke Program in the Division of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Summer is approaching fast -- but for people with diabetes, this can be a particularly dangerous time of year for the feet. From playing sports on the beach and swimming, to walking in sandals or open toed shoes all put patients with diabetes at risk for foot injuries that could lead to more serious diabetic complications -- even amputation.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center report that treatment with a steroid pill improves the overall survival of patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow. The study shows that patients who received oral prednisone over the long term following treatment with chemotherapy maintained their remission and survived longer.
To assure the availability of a qualified nursing force, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announces the creation of the Institute for Professional Nursing Development. Nursing and labor shortages is one of the most significant issues facing healthcare organizations across the country and across the continuum of care.
Patients who experience painful migraines or chronic daily headaches may be "adding insult to injury" by perpetuating the frequency of this painful disorder by depending heavily on over-the-counter migraine pain relievers.
An educational conference focusing on treating children with spinal disorders will be presented by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and by the Cedars-Sinai Department of Pediatrics on Saturday, June 8, 2002. The all-day conference is open to pediatricians, as well as pediatric neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and radiologists, and to registered nurses in these specialties.
To commemorate National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, April 21 through 28, Cedars-Sinai's Multi-Organ Transplant Program is sponsoring its first annual Donor Appreciation Picnic on Saturday, April 27 at West Hollywood Park.
Neurosurgeon Keith Black, M.D., and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute are presenting an innovative and unique hands-on program that aims to interest 7th- and 8th-grade students in science and medicine as career choices.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and at the Centro Investigacion Rehabilitacion de Ataxia, in Holguin, Cuba have identified a gene that affects the severity and onset of a rare brain disease. The condition, called spinocerebellar ataxia, is a disease caused by a gene mutation and characterized by a loss of balance and coordination.
Cedars-Sinai's Department of Surgery has transformed its weekly Morbidity and Mortality Conferences into an innovative educational study curriculum -- the M & M Matrix. This progressive approach for reviewing surgical errors provides a forum where complications are discussed, analyzed, summarized into teaching points, and disseminated via e-mail to residents and participating attending staff, who are subsequently tested on the material.
A combination of targeted therapies may be needed to keep prostate cancer at bay. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have found that a potent new drug inhibits the growth of prostate cancer in mice early in the treatment process, but can stop working after several courses of therapy.
After recruiting several additional world-renowned specialists to its transplant surgery programs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has refined and restructured its abdominal organ transplant services. The resulting Multi-Organ Transplant Program brings a multi-disciplinary perspective that will improve efficiency and timeliness of transplants.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was one of 10 hospitals in the state to record better than expected outcomes among heart attack patients in the last three reports compiled by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
At age 32, an anorexia-bulimia patient made the decision to take control of her eating disorder after finding out she was 2 months pregnant. With the help and care of her registered dietitian, primary care physician and ob/gyn at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
Cardiac researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, working in collaboration with Swedish investigators, have developed a novel vaccine to prevent plaque buildup in genetically engineered mice with high cholesterol levels.
Aggressive ovarian cancer may be linked to the presence of a blood disorder characterized by high platelet cell counts. The findings may lead to the development of more targeted therapies and help physicians offer their patients more effective treatment options.
Studies show that subspecialists can provide better quality care than primary care physicians when working within their subspecialty for patients with some medical conditions. Recent studies have suggested there may be a surplus of subspecialists and a greater need for general internists.
Working through small incisions on the sides of the chest, pediatric surgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are now able to correct in a minimally invasive procedure, a congenital chest wall deformity in which a child's sternum sinks inward to create a concave, funnel-shaped chest.
Physicians and researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, will be presenting information on a wide variety of topics at the American College of Cardiologists' (ACC) 51st Annual Scientific Session and the ACC Interventional Symposium in Atlanta from March 17 through 20. Topics include acute coronary syndromes, atrial fibrillation, imaging protocols, pregnancy and heart disease, urgent vascular conditions, and clinical trials.
Patients who suffer from advanced congestive heart failure and heart rhythm abnormalities may qualify to participate in one of two research trials now underway at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
This month's medical tip sheet from Cedars-Sinai includes brain tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, women and heart disease and more.
Asha Das, M.D., has been recruited to direct the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute's neuro-oncology program. With credentials from several highly respected programs for medical training and cancer care, she brings extensive experience in both patient treatment and research.
Treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, an often-misdiagnosed disorder that is universally considered to be the most painful affliction known to adult men and women, has historically been only moderately effective, but a new type of minimally invasive and highly specialized skull base brain surgery called Endoscopic Vascular Decompression can eliminate pain immediately and give patients back their lives.
A few weeks before Christmas, 22-year-old Walter Canady of Kansas City, MO, underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute in Los Angeles to remove an aggressive type of malignant brain tumor. Today he is back home in Kansas City, feeling optimistic about the future and grateful to his neurosurgeon.
Discovering at age 18 that he had a malignant brain tumor was "pretty crazy, pretty scary," says Tommy Phillips of Upland, CA. But thanks to advanced brain mapping and diagnostic techniques, combined with the specialized expertise of a team of neurosurgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, the future today looks bright for this young man two years after his surgery.
In an effort to help women learn more about the symptoms and treatment of heart disease and heart attacks, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has teamed with the Voluntary Hospital Association and hospitals nationwide in a program known as the "Women's HeartAdvantage Campaign."
Heart disease and heart attacks claim the lives of more American women than men each year, and pose a greater threat to American women than all forms of cancer combined. Unfortunately, many women do not know that the symptoms of a woman having a heart attack can be significantly different from those of a man.
Topics this month include: 1) Interleukin 12 research; 2) Alternative therapies to treat common cold may help avoid antibiotic resistance; 3) Kick-start the New Year with tips for kicking bad habits; 4) Chavez sisters' living liver transplant; 5) Tips for the flu season; 6) Endoscopic brain surgery for acoustic neuroma; 7) Pediatric orthopedic surgery
Physicians and scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute describe an approach that "significantly prolonged" survival in mice with glioma -- an extremely deadly type of brain cancer that is highly resistant to treatment.
The daughters and nieces of the co-founders of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW), are on a mission -- to increase understanding and awareness of living donor organ transplants, especially in Latino communities.
After undergoing two highly specialized types of minimally invasive skull base brain surgery in less than a year -- one for an acoustic neuroma that was accidentally discovered and one for relief of the debilitating facial pain known as trigeminal neuralgia -- 69-year-old Rodney Blauer says he is feeling great this holiday season.
1) Diabetes and the holidays; 2) Weight management during the holidays; 3) Depression and stress during the holidays; 4)Loneliness and grief during the holidays; 5) Coping with alcohol dependency during the holidays; 6) New experimental drug shown to slow growth of prostate cancer tumors in mice; 7) "Camera in a Capsule:" New imaging tests offers non-invasive alternative for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Rich, sugary holiday foods offer a special challenge for people with diabetes. The Director of the Comprehensive Diabetes Outpatient Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers tips that help people with diabetes make healthful choices during the holidays.
"Even if you're working to manage your weight, you can enjoy the wonderful foods of the holiday season as long as you do so in moderation," says a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center dietitian. Following are her "baker's dozen" holiday weight management tips.
A new experimental drug has been found to slow the growth of prostate cancer tumors in laboratory studies conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The findings, presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference may lead to a new way to treat prostate cancer, a disease that strikes about 198,000 men each year.
Topics included this month are: 1) White Muslim woman donates kidney to African American man; 2) 29-year-old woman with Long QT Syndrome receives lifesaving defibrillator; 3) New AHA Guidelines; 4) Possible precursor to optical biopsies in brain surgery; 5) Irradiated balloons.
Thanks to the combined efforts of the Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Larry King Cardiac Foundation and Guidant Corporation, a 29-year-old Hesperia, CA, woman whose family suffers from Long QT Syndrome was able to receive a life-saving medical device.
Even though recent events have in some cases focused on differences among religious and ethnic groups, here's a wonderful story about a White American Muslim woman who donated one of her kidneys to an African American Christian man whom she had not previously known. The transplant took place at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles -- a Jewish hospital.
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, is available to discuss the new AHA Guidelines. A board-certified specialist in cardiovascular diseases, she has served since 1991 as Director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She currently serves as Chair of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Committee.
Cardiologists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are participating in a randomized clinical trial studying the use of irradiated balloons to help prevent blocked arteries from developing recurring blockages.
The Sept. Tip Sheet from Cedars-Sinai focuses on experts, services and programs that may be helpful in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 events. Included are: 1) Teen Hotline Helps Young People Cope With Recent Tragedy; 2) Psychological Trauma Center Offers "Tips for Parents" to Help Children Cope; Loss and Grief Support Programs Open to Those Who have Lost Loved Ones; 4) Expert on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Available for Interviews; 5) Blood Donations.
1) Father's Day Living Liver Transplant; 2) Palm Pilots, Wireless Modems & Cutomized Software Enable Physicians to Access Patient Updates from Anywhere, 24/7; 3) Summer Safety for Kids; 4) Research Detects Mechanism that Appears to Enable Deadly Brain Tumors to Progress.
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