Using a technique called "gene array" that allows them to analyze thousands of genes in one experiment, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have identified a new mechanism that may be a critical step in the development of a type of malignant brain tumor (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) that has historically been virtually impervious to treatment.
For most kids, a new necktie, a good book, or even a favorite music album are considered typical Father's Day gifts. But this year, Angel Molina, a 21-year-old from Albuquerque, NM, gave her dad a new liver.
A growing number of physicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are consulting their Palm Pilots these days in order to access a patient's medical information from anywhere -- 24 hours a day. What they learn enables them to make time-sensitive medical decisions affecting their patients' care.
Even though summer is the season for sun and fun for kids, it's also the time for death and injury. According to the Medical Director of the Children's Health Clinic at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
1.) A new experimental artificial disc (spine); 2.) A "Baker's Dozen" Weight Management Tips; 3.) New Diagnostic Tool Improves Detection of Lung Cancer That has Spread; 4.) Hope n the Horizon for Allergy Sufferers - Anti-IgE Drugs; 5.) Expert on Medical Aspects of Organ Transplantation Receives Award.
A new diagnostic imaging agent has been found to improve detection of lung cancer that has spread, enabling physicians to provide better treatment options for patients with lung cancer, according to the Director of Nuclear Medicine and Co-Chairman of Imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The new agent may also reduce the overall costs of patient care by eliminating unnecessary surgeries.
It's no secret that obesity is one of the top health problems facing Americans. Half of us are overweight and a third are obese -- contributing to more than 300,000 deaths each year. A registered dietitian at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's outpatient Nutrition Counseling Center offers a "baker's dozen" tips on successful weight management.
Director of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, offers tips for coping with allergies this summer and also provides information on the new anti-IgE drugs, which are expected to revolutionize allergy treatment.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stanley C. Jordan, M.D., was recognized for more than two decades of research when the American Society of Transplantation presented him with its Novartis Established Investigator Clinical Science Award on May 14.
For patients with back problems, a new, experimental artificial disc currently being tested at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and nine other centers nationwide, may prove a viable alternative to disc fusion surgery, especially for young, active patients.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have identified a new protein in brain cells that may help to regulate muscle control and movement. The protein, called torsinB, is closely related to torsinA -- a protein that in its defective form -- has been linked to the development of early-onset dystonia.
For 68-year-old Rodney Blauer, Marina del Rey, CA, trigeminal neuralgia turned out to be a good thing. The debilitating facial pain in his left jaw, universally acknowledged as the most painful affliction known to adults, led to the accidental discovery of an unrelated tumor on the opposite side of his brain. That acoustic neuroma was completely removed in an endoscopic at the Cedars-Sinai Skull Base Institute in Los Angeles.
With staffing shortages affecting hospitals nationwide, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the largest not-for-profit hospital in the western United States, is launching a concerted, sustained marketing campaign designed to draw new talent and distinguish Cedars-Sinai from other hospitals in the region. The campaign focuses on the medical center's ongoing effort to increase diversity of ethnicity and gender, and also targets the underlying reason many people decide to pursue a healthcare career in the first place.
Within 24 hours of being diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma, 6-year-old Isabella Gutierrez was undergoing pediatric neurosurgery during which the tumor was completely removed. Her recovery has been rapid: quickly regaining normal walking skills, her double vision has gone away, and she has no more headaches and no more vomiting.
Topics in this month's medical tip sheet from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center include: 1) Cardiologist Named Director of Women's Health Program; 2) Temodar is First New FDA-Approved Brain Cancer Fighting Drug in More than 20 Years; 3) Very Low Doses of New Drug Reduces Complicatins of Bone Metastases in Patients with Metastatic Brain Cancer and Multiple Myeloma; More. . .
After collapsing from a heart attack while running the Los Angeles Marathon, 49-year-old John Davidson has made what doctors call a miraculous recovery. Despite requiring CPR from fellow runners at the scene for approximately 15-17 minutes, then being in a coma for six days, Davidson has no discernible cardiac damage on EKG, on echocardiogram, nor on examination. And there's no neurologic damage.
On May 30, 120 seventh- and eighth-grade students from Los Angeles-area schools will learn how researchers at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute are adapting declassified military technology for medical uses. Scientists at the Institute are using thermal imagers to detect brain tumors and malformed arteries in the brain that can cause strokes.
This June, Glenn Matsuki will celebrate the 6th anniversary of his heart transplant. What makes him truly unique is that has subsequently found employment as management assistant for the Liver Transplant program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
A clinical trial to study the effectiveness of Temodar, the first new brain cancer fighting drug to receive FDA approval in more than 20 years, is underway at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute in Los Angeles.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center report that very low doses of a potent new drug called zoledronic acid reduces the complications that arise from multiple myeloma and breast cancer that has spread to the bone. (Cancer, 4-1-01)
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have identified four genes that may play a role in the development of certain types of malignant brain tumors. (International Journal of Oncology, 2-01)
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center report that high amounts of Hepatitis C in the blood and simultaneous co-infection with HIV may be linked to a greater risk of developing AIDS and AIDS related death. (J. of Infectious Diseases, 2-15-01)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announces the appointment of John J. Regan, M.D., an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon, to Director of Research and Education at the new Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders, the largest multidisciplinary spinal center in the Western United States.
A new type of "vaccine" therapy targets the immune system against glioblastoma multiforme (glioma) cancer cells. In what is believed to be the first study of its kind on glioma cells, dendritic cell immunotherapy extended the median length of survival. A larger Phase II study is now underway. (Cancer Research 2-1-01)
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are now enrolling patients in a large multi-center clinical trial to determine whether two popular nutrition supplements -- glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate -- reduce the knee pain associated with osteoarthritis.
This month's medical tip sheet from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center includes information on irritable bowel syndrome, the new gene therapeutics institute, children's brain tumors, a fully endoscopic procedure to remove skull-base tumors, hyperhidrosis, a wife-to-husband living liver transplant and more.
On Nov. 2, 2000, a husband and wife from Orange County, CA, each underwent four-hour operations at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The purpose of the twin-surgeries was to reclaim the life of the husband, Tom Stich, 56.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center may have identified the cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), a gastrointestinal condition that afflicts about 20 percent of the adult population and is diagnosed in twice as many women as men. (The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 12-00)
Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute in Los Angeles have documented development of a malignant tumor 7 years after radiosurgery to treat a benign tumor. (Lancet, 11-00)
Thanks to its new Pediatric General Surgery Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center now offers children the minimally invasive, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures that have been available to adults for years.
A new outpatient procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Hyperhidrosis Center now offers relief for people with hyperhidrosis -- excessive sweating. Performed endoscopically, with four tiny incisions, complete recovery is measured in several days.
1) Coping with diabetes during the holidays; 2) Coping with depression and dress during the holidays; 3) Successful weight management during the holidays; 4) Coping with loneliness and grief during the holidays; and 5) Coping with alcohol dependency during the holidays.
The results of a long-term study on transmyocardial revascularization were presented Nov. 15, 2000, at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2000. TMR is a breakthrough laser therapy that provides significant pain relief to severe angina patients.
The latest information on medications and treatments for epilepsy patients with seizures will be discussed by a panel of medical experts at a conference for adult and adolescent epilepsy patients, their families, the medical community, and the general public on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Los Angeles.
According to a new study to appear in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, women who repeatedly gain and lose weight, especially if they are obese, have significantly lower levels of HDL or "good" cholesterol than do women who maintain their weight, putting the weight cyclers at increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
1) Fully Endoscopic Procedure to Remove Skull Base Tumors; 2) Lung Volume Reduction; 3) Voting from Your Hospital Bed; 4) Holistic Treatment Options for Treating America's "First Environmental Epidemic" -- Respiratory Disease
Respiratory disease (including sinusitis, environmental asthma and related conditions) has become America's first environmental epidemic, with nearly one-third of Americans afflicted with sinusitis, allergies, asthma or bronchitis.
"Going to the polls" and casting your ballot for president becomes more challenging when you're hospitalized, but Cedars-Sinai Medical Center volunteers make it possible for every patient to vote -- right from his or her hospital bed.
1) Genes Linked to Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 2 & 10 and Epilepsy; 2) Coronary Calcium Scan Help Identify Type 1 Diabetics; 3) New Pediatric Neurosurgery Program Launched; 4) Study shows Testosterone Patch Improves Sexual Function in Surgically Postmenopausal Women; 5) First Lung-Liver Transplant in Western U.S.
Researchers have identified the gene on chromosome 22 and the causative mutation that is linked to inherited diseases that lead to motor incoordination and epilepsy. (10-1-00 Nature Genetics)
Responding to a growing need for highly specialized care of pediatric brain tumors and other central nervous system disorders, Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute has launched a state-of-the-art Pediatric Neurosurgery Program.
According to a study published in the Sept. 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, an experimental testosterone patch improved the sexual function and psychological well-being of women who had undergone surgical menopause (removal of the ovaries and uterus).
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center who have previously discovered and localized genes involved in neurodegenerative disorders called hereditary ataxias are presenting new findings about the underlying mechanisms causing these diseases. (Nature Genetics, 9-00)
New research at the University of Pittsburgh indicates that a heart scan using electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) may be an important tool in finding Type 1 diabetics who are particularly high heart disease risks. (Diabetes, 9-00)
This month's medical tip sheet from Cedars-Sinai includes: 1) Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; 2) Laparoscopic Nephrectomy; 3) Javits Award; 4) Fully Endoscopic Pituitary Tumor Removal; 5) Directed Donation Liver Transplant; 6) Cedars-Sinai Ranked Best Among Southern California Heart Hospitals; 7) Bioartificial Liver
Neurosurgeon Keith L. Black, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, has been selected to receive the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, an honor that provides up to seven years of research funding from NINDS.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center assisted in developing the computer programs that make sophisticated decisions in a new type of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator that for the first time treats rhythm problems originating in the upper chambers of the heart, as well as those in the lower chambers.
When a car crash in Indiana took the life of 18-year-old Jonathon in mid-June, his mother and other family members decided to offer his organs for transplantation to save other lives. One of those was the life of John Bender, 62, a resident of southern California, who was distantly related to the donor on both his mother's and father's sides of the family.
Thanks to a video-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in which her kidney was removed through a small port, a living kidney donor was back to work about a week after having her kidney removed.
Using extremely thin, flexible and precise endoscopic instruments, a new surgical approach performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is making hospital stays and recovery times shorter for patients who have tumors located along the bottom surface of the brain and directly behind the eyes.
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