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CELGENE'S THALOMID(r) TESTED IN PILOT STUDY AT CEDARS-SINAI
Researchers investigating the use of THALOMID(r) (thalidomide) to treat Crohn's disease have announced preliminary findings from a pilot study conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The findings were announced May 19 at the annual Digestive Disease Week(r) meeting in Orlando, FL. Lead investigator, Eric A. Vasiliauskas, M.D., associate clinical director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cedar's Sinai, Los Angeles reported findings from a pilot study of 12 patients at the Center. All patients had chronic, steroid-dependent or unresponsive Crohn's disease, an inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract.
NEUROONCOLOGIST TO DONATE MEDICAL SERVICES FOR SERIOUSLY ILL YOUNGSTERS IN IRELAND
A neuroonclogist from the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and his wife, a pediatrician, will travel from Southern California to Ireland for 12 days this July to provide donated medical services to 90 seriously ill European youngsters at the Barretstown Gang Camp. More than half of the children attending will be receiving active therapy for leukemia, sarcomas, brain tumors, bone marrow transplants and other cancer-related conditions The camp was founded by actor Paul Newman, and is a nonprofit facility who mission is to provide an enriching and therapeutic recreational experience for seriously ill children.
MOUSE MAP LEADS WAY TO HUMAN DISEASE EXPLORATION
A dramatic finding, featured on the cover of the May 1999 issue of the scientific journal Genome Research, has profound implications for the study of human illnesses and the hunt for effective treatments and cures. 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 Julie R. Korenberg, M.D., Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics.
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