Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute neurosurgeons in June used advanced brain mapping, ultrasound and magnetic resonance guidance technology, to remove 95 percent of a child's brain tumor while fully preserving his vision.
Los Angeles area residents with an interest in brain tumors will have an opportunity to attend a free conference presented by the highly renowned Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute. The conference will be Saturday, Nov. 9, from 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
For decades, scientists have tried to figure out how to stop viruses from spreading. Their efforts have led to the development of drugs that can help to slow the spread of some infections and diseases such as AIDS by preventing viruses from reproducing.
One year ago a kidney transplant scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001, from a White American Muslim to an African American Christian in a Jewish hospital didn't seem particularly remarkable. Neither did the fact that the transplant would be performed by transplant teams including German, Jewish and South African surgeons.
The recently appointed director of pediatric urology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Endourology Institute, specializes in minimally invasive techniques to correct a wide range of conditions impacting the urinary tract of infants and children. His expertise and Cedars-Sinai's previously established prenatal diagnostic capabilities provide a specialty referral service when a fetal urologic problem is suspected.
According to two physicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles --a cardiologist and an internist with a specialty in alternative medicine -- it is important for menopausal women to know and understand all of their options regarding HRT, so they can make educated decisions affecting their healthcare.
Laboratory studies conducted by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Genentech have found that a potent experimental drug called 2C4 slows tumor growth in both breast and prostate cancer tumors in mice even when small amounts of HER-2/neu are expressed.
A 73-year-old resident of Little Rock, Ca., is the first patient in the Los Angeles area to have an experimental mesh "jacket" implanted to try to slow or reverse the effects of progressive heart failure. Surgeons used the device in an effort to support the patient's heart, encourage it to return to a more natural shape, improve cardiac function, and ultimately provide a higher quality of life.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named one of the nation's Most Wired hospital and health systems in the nation. The fourth annual survey and benchmarking study is awarded to technically savvy hospitals.
From daytime dramas to television news, the public has long been fascinated by matters of science and health. In recent years, the increasing popularity of reality-based television and health programs has given rise to concern about the ethical and legal issues with regard to privacy and confidentiality when filming patients for commercial purposes.
"Even if you're working to manage your weight, you can enjoy the wonderful foods of the Jewish holiday season as long as you do so in moderation," says a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center dietitian.
Thanks to the Larry King Cardiac Foundation and the unwillingness of two Cedars-Sinai cardiologists to "give up," a 27-year-old Woodland Hills (CA) mother of two has become one of the first patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to have an atrial septal defect (ASD) repaired non-surgically. Historically, the only treatment available for ASDs was open-heart surgery, but this non-surgical procedure was performed in 35 minutes while the patient was awake.
Surgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Division of Trauma Surgery and Critical Care present information on a simple, quick and convenient measuring device that can alert the treatment team to life-threatening pressure increases in the abdominal cavity. The authors are available to discuss this alternative to conventional methods, as well as other issues related to trauma care and surgery.
Since the incidence of foodborne illness is most prevalent between May and September, before you fire up the backyard barbecue, there are a few very important precautions you should take to prevent foodborne illness from ruining your outdoor eating activities.
It looks like a yo-yo, but it can stretch, flatten out, "swell up" and even "self-center," depending on what it needs to do to adjust itself to plug holes in the heart that make up some of the most common congenital heart defects. In the past, treating such heart defects required open heart surgery, but thanks to these high-tech titanium devices that look like toys, surgery is no longer necessary.
When Zeus joins the surgical team in September, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will move another step closer to creating the "operating room of the future." Zeus is the hospital's newest, most evolved generation of robot, and will play a pivotal role in the high-tech surgical environment under development at Cedars-Sinai. The medical center introduced robotics about a year ago in its first modernized OR suite.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have found that a novel imaging agent detects life-threatening infections and inflammation in patients more rapidly than the standard nuclear medicine imaging tests typically used for this purpose. The imaging agent may eliminate the need for additional tests and reduce the risk of exposure involved in handling blood samples taken when additional clarification is needed to identify the infection.
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.
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