Abdullah Al-Abdani celebrated his second birthday last July by going to surgery and having a kidney transplant instead of going to his birthday party. His older brother, now 5, also had a kidney transplant two years ago.
1. People Magazine Correspondent to Run Marathon after Brain Surgery; 2. Conference on Genetic Medicine and the Jewish Population; 3. TMR Study Published; 4. Patients Sought for Neurological AIDS Study; 5. Pediatrician Receives Award
"Genetic Medicine and the Jewish Population: Clinical, Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Issues," a free conference at Cedars-Sinai will provide information on the historical, clinical, ethical, legal and social issues surrounding genetic medicine in the Jewish population.
This December, just 17 months after a pituitary tumor was removed in a highly specialized, fully endoscopic operation, Ken Baker, San Francisco correspondent for PEOPLE magazine, will run the California International Marathon to raise money for the nonprofit Skull Base Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, along with researchers at the University of California, San Diego and University of Southern California, are seeking persons in advanced stages of HIV to participate in a study of treatment options for neurological damage caused by AIDS.
Augusto Sola, M.D., director of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Division of Neonatology, will be honored next week by the American Academy of Pediatrics for his long-standing efforts to improve the lives of newborns and infants.
This weekÃs issue of the New England Journal of Medicine will include a report on Transmyocardial CO2 Laser Revascularization (TMR). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles was one of 12 U.S. medical centers participating in the study, and was the first medical center in the Southwest to provide TMR.
1. Ventricular Assist Surgery; 2. New Dimension in Radiation Therapy 3. Prenatal Diagnostics Pioneer Joins Cedars-Sinai; 4. Mitral Valve Prolapse
A next-generation radiation therapy system that allows physicians to "shape" radiation treatments three-dimensionally to match irregularly contoured tumors is now available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
A Cedars-Sinai Medical Center heart transplant surgeon specializes in implanting mechanisms (Ventricular assist device surgery) that allow a defective heart to rest while awaiting a transplant.
Since 1996, physicians at Cedars-Sinai have treated more than 100 patients annually with severe mitral regurgitation, and approximately 80 percent will undergo valve repair, a successful alternative to more conventional valve replacement.
LDL apheresis, approved for treatment by the FDA earlier this year, can be considered a potentially life-saving therapy for patients who do not respond to other types of treatment.
Implementation of a kidney/pancreas transplant program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and guiding the development of programs in partial liver transplantation for both adults and children are top priorities for Christopher R. Shackleton, M.D.
Rosalinde Snijders, Ph.D., a pioneer in first-trimester prenatal studies and a consultant to the National Institutes of Health in the development of the "BUN" study, has became a research scholar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai.
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterÃs heart surgery division recently released its 1998 statistics and sixth annual report card. According to the data, the division continues to have excellent outcomes despite the fact that it serves the highest-risk populations based on patient age and medical condition.
Preparing yourself ahead of time for the heat is the most important preventive measure you can take, according to a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center physician.
Researchers at the Center for Women's Health at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are launching a clinical trial to assess whether eating certain plant compounds can have positive effects on the lining of the uterus. These "isoflavones," are found in particularly high amounts in clover and soybeans.
With an emphasis on patient convenience and integrated clinical, surgical and research components, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is launching a unique and comprehensive pituitary that brings together under one roof medical, surgical, research, imaging and pathology components.
Medical Tip Sheet from Cedars-Sinai: 1) SIDS prevention tactic leads to epidemic of 'misshapen head' in infants; 2) New Medicare coverage makes TMR more readily accessbile to patients with severe angina; 3) U.S. News & World Report ranks Cedars-Sinai Medical Center top non-university hospital in Southern CA; 4) Cedars-Sinai physician is one of first in Southern CA to use Somnoplasty procedures for habitual snoring
While the potentially life-saving benefits of placing babies on their back during sleep are indisputable (to help reduce the risk of SIDS, this practice has also led to a five-fold increase in the incidence of nonsynostotic positional plagiocephaly (misshapen head) in infants.
Beginning this year, students headed into the seventh grade in some school districts will first have to stop by the doctorÃs office to be vaccinated against hepatitis type B, thereby ensuring that all children are immunized before reaching adulthood.
Effective July 1, 1999, Medicare began reimbursement for transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR), making it more readily accessible for an estimated 10 to 15 percent of patients with significant heart disease who are unsuitable for angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery.
If confirmed by subsequent studies, the results of a heart attack study reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine may lead to a re-examination of paramedic transport policies, says Prediman K. Shah, M.D., Director of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Experimental testosterone patch shows promise for treating diminished sexual function in surgically menopausal women.
Scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada will report Monday, June 14, the first detected contaminants from certain pesticides and industrial chemicals in the amniotic fluid of unborn babies.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and "Healing the Children," have teamed up to help 24 youngsters from around the world, most of whom have needed major operations, receive medical care that would otherwise have been unavailable to them.
A two-year study has identified for the first time a molecular mechanism that transduces stress signals from the brain to other parts of the body after physical or psychological trauma. This discovery will provide a tool for researchers studying the endocrine responses that modulate the protection against immune and inflammatory insults like blood-borne infections, shock and inflammation as well as stress.
A two-part series on heart disease -- focusing particularly on the risks to Hispanic women -- was awarded a 1999 C. Everett Koop Media Award by the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.
A neuroonclogist from Cedars-Sinai and his wife, a pediatrician, will travel to Ireland for 12 days this July to donate medical services to 90 seriously ill European youngsters at the Barretstown Gang Camp.
1. "Glitches" discovered and fixed in animal study make human pituitary tumor surgery quicker, safer and less painful; 2. Non-surgical thermotherapy effective in treating Prostate disease; 3. IVIG therapy shows promise in preventing transplanted organ rejection.
1. Method to detect deadly complication of pediatric transplantation; 2. New medications can help nip allergy; 3. "Controlled" heart attack helps treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
1. Celgene's Thalomid Tested in Pilot Study at Cedars-Sinai; 2. Neurooncologist Donates Medial Services at Barretstown Gang Camp in Irland; 3. Mouse Map Leads way to Human Disease Exploration
Surgeons at the Skull Base Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have refined an endoscopic procedure that reduces trauma, decreases risk of complications and speeds recovery for patients who need surgery of the pituitary gland.
Scientists studying virtually any human genetic disease or trait can now quickly locate known matching genes in the mouse by using a color-coded chromosome mapping system devised by a team led by a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Researchers investigating the use of THALOMID (r) (thalidomide) to treat Crohn's disease today announced preliminary findings from a pilot study at the annual Digestive Disease Week meeting in Orlando, FL.
One hundred twenty-three seventh-graders from the L.A. Unified School District will have an opportunity to get "up close and personal" with cow brains, surgical scrubs, and world-renowned neurosurgeons, researchers and scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Brainworks program.
A therapeutic approach, infusion of intravenous immunoglobulin, that appears to significantly reduce the rejection risk of transplanted organs is currently being studied in multi-center clinical trials but already has been adopted as an effective tool by most major transplant centers throughout the country.
Two studies conducted by a Cedars-Sinai researcher related to neonatal hypoglycemia and tidal volume measurements in neonates are being presented this week at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are presenting three scientific lectures (hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, septic shock and Cole-Hughes syndrome) and several poster-session exhibits at the Pediatric Academic Societies' 1999 Annual Meeting May 1 through 4.
For the first time in Southern California, a septal ablation was used last month to treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. The new procedure creates a "controlled" heart attack that destroys excess heart muscle and helps relieve the obstruction to flow of blood from the heart.
High School students involved in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Teen Line program will serve on a panel discussing "Teens and Tolerance." Teen Line is a model training program of teen suicide prevention/intervention with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Five scientific and two educational sessions at the American Academy of Neurology's 51st annual meeting will be given by a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center neurologist and researcher. His presentations will provide details of recent findings related to spinocerebellar ataxia.
Using new technology that can analyze 18,000 to 20,000 genes at a time, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have found 13 genes that are differentially expressed in brain tumors compared to normal tissue.
A potentially catastrophic complication of transplantation that affects 10 to 15 percent of children who receive livers or other donated organs can now be detected and treated early. The method of periodic testing was devised by Cedars-Sinai researchers.
A 71-foot historical mural depicting "Jewish Contributions to Medicine" will be unveiled and dedicated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Sunday, May 2, 1999. The mural depicts 42 major concepts and physicians dating from Biblical times to the present.
Uncovering the causes and, eventually, a "cure" for skeletal dysplasias -- a group of more than 200 disorders that cause dwarfism - are the goals behind the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
A new, non-surgical treatment option that utilizes microwave thermotherapy is now available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia -- the common, non-cancerous condition of an enlarged prostate gland.
Scientists are studying new treatments to combat two viruses that cause chronic liver inflammation and are expected to become increasingly devastating over the next decade.
The Van Gogh exhibit at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art may seem like an unlikely setting for re-entry into normal life after a stroke, spinal cord, brain injury or other disabling disorder. But that's what it will be for seven rehab patients from Cedars-Sinai.
In recognition of her contributions at the local, state and national levels, a nursing administrator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center received the "NurseWeek" Nursing Excellence Award in the category Advancing the Profession.
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