1) "Gold-Standard" study shows surgical skill affects survival rates in children with brain tumors; 2) Early dental exams can help avert problems posed by "designer" bottled waters; 3) Tips for parents of premature babies; 4) Young patients get "TLC" in new Pediatric ER
Although studies suggest that the number of people with allergies is growing, there are now highly effective medications available that do not produce unwanted side effects such as drowsiness. People with allergy-triggered asthma can also benefit from these medications.
Cedars-Sinai is taking much of the trauma out of a trip to the ER. A major renovation effort and a progressive approach to pediatric emergency care has resulted in special services, surroundings for the nearly 9,000 children treated in the emergency dept. each year.
Delaying seeking medical help after experiencing slurred speech or other signs of stroke is the biggest mistake patients can make, says a Cedars-Sinai neurologist. A stroke's impact depends on its size, area of the brain affected, and how quickly treatment is initiated.
Neurogeneticists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have localized SCA10, a gene involved with a rare form of inherited ataxia, a disease whose onset usually comes in early adulthood and that causes incoordination of gait and movement.
In the largest independent survey of its type in the nation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named a Quality Leader for providing services most preferred by consumers. This is the fifth time the hospital has been identified as So. California's gold standard in healthcare.
Hyperhidrosis, excess sweating of hands, underarms and feet, is a rare but psychologically devastating disorder. A 17-year-old tennis player from Irvine, Calif., improved her game and the quality of her life after undergoing a simple surgical procedure with Dr. Martin Cooper, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Research in recent years indicates that the secret to maintaining an exercise program may be "all in your mind," says a clinical psychologist with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who has completed the Los Angeles, Honolulu and other marathons.
1. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis survivor and liver transplant expert available; 2. Rare Surgical Approach Offers Hope for Epilepsy Patients; 3. Uncommon Procedure Enables Patients With Dwarfism to do Things Most People Take for Granted; 4. Gene Array/DNA Extraction
Wendell Sawyer, 43, a PSC survivor and liver transplant recipient is also a former USC football player. He and his physician, John Vierling, M.D., are available for interviews. Vierling is Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
For the past seven years, medical geneticists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have specialized in a limb-lengthening procedure known as the Vilarrubias technique. This technique used in treating patients with dwarfism, it lengthens both legs at the same time.
In December 1998, a woman who had suffered with epilepsy since she was eight months old, became the first patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to undergo surgery while she was awake to disconnect the language cortex without affecting speech.
Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy -- A new type of cancer vaccine is being tested at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, giving new hope to patients with malignant brain tumors.
The FDA has approved VISX Excimer Laser Systems for the correction of hyperopia (farsightedness) via laser surgery. Cedars-Sinai laser vision correction pioneer Dr. James Salz headed the Los Angeles-area clinical trial, and is available for media interviews.
1. New Program for Children with Brain, Spinal Cord Tumors 2. Bacteria Becoming Increasingly Resistant to Antibiotics 3. New "Success With Heart Failure" Program 4. National Glaucoma Awareness Month 5. New Heart Watch Program Offers Coronary Calcium Scans
According to a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center scientist, controlling antibiotic usage in an outpatient setting to prevent further increases in the rate of antibiotic resistance is now a national priority.
A new diagnostic and treatment program for children with brain and spinal cord tumors opens in January at Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterÃs Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute. The new center provides an unmatched level of expertise and comprehensive care in Southern CA.
Flight attendant Vesta McDermott credits a chance encounter with a passenger in the darkened cabin of a DC-10 with saving her sight. That passenger was an ophthalmologist who recognized the signs of advanced glaucoma in Vesta's left eye.
A new program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is taking aim at one of the largest single diagnoses in cardiology -- congestive heart failure -- through seven active research protocols and a physician consulting service.
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are ready to start a human treatment protocol that has the potential to reverse nerve and brain damage caused by stroke, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and spinal cord injuries.
A free patient workshop for individuals who suffer from trigeminal neuralgia (severe facial pain) will be held Saturday, Jan. 23, 1999, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Trigeminal neuralgia is universally considered to be the most painful affliction known to adults.
Pediatric cancer patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center can readily relate to Dani, a beagle in the hospital's pet therapy program. A cancer survivor, herself, Dani went through oral chemotherapy using similar types of drugs as the kids and had comparable side effects.
1. "Heart Watch"Coronary Calcium Scan; 2. New Mural Depicts Jewish Contributions to Medicine; 3. Benefits of Autopsy; 4. Parkinson Disease Center Opens; 5. Pet Therapy
Teen Line, a unique help line at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is staffed by teens, for teens, and provides callers with a sympathetic listening ear when they need it most.
"Heart Watch" is a new program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center which uses a coronary calcium scan for the earliest detection of coronary artery disease.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's new mural, "Jewish Contributions to Medicine," makes an important addition to the medical center's art collection -- and to Jewish medical history.
A pink pawprint on the door of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center patient rooms indicates that the patient inside will soon be visited by a furry, four-legged "therapist." The dogs are part of two successful pet therapy programs.
The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Information and Referral Center has opened at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to assist individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, including their families and caregivers. Services are free of charge.
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.
Stereotactic-guided placement of a deep brain stimulator, done while the patient is awake, is helping to control tremors in ParkinsonÃs Disease patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterÃs Neurofunctional Surgery Center. New research may ultimately offer hope of a cure.
Despite the benefits of autopsy - better information on cause of death, efficacy of treatment and undiagnosed disease - the U.S. rate has dropped from nearly 50 percent to fewer than 10 percent, according to a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researcher.
1) 9-Year-Old is Tumor-Free for the First Time in His Life; 2)Diabetes and the Holidays; 3) Infectious Diseases in Children Adopted from Abroad; 4) Laser Vision Correction for Hyperopia; 5) Use of Antibiotic to Prevent Second Heart Attacks
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's is developing a new clinic specializing in identifying and treating diseases in babies adopted internationally. There are an estimated 10,000 such adoptions annually.
Thanks to a new type of intraoperative imaging technology and the steady hands of a Skull Base Surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a 9-year-old who has had a tumor since birth will be home -- tumor free -- in time for Thanksgiving.
A clinical trial currently under way at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center could have profound ramifications for preventing recurring heart attacks by using a common, inexpensive antibiotic.
1) Intraoperative Duplex Scanning Malignancy Gene Discovered, 2) First Heart/Liver Transplant in western U.S., 3) Human Brain Transplantation Protocol Approved, 4) Fully Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
A scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has discovered a gene in malignant brain, liver, breast, colon, kidney, and reproductive organ tumors, but not in healthy adults, stirring hopes that a vital key to cancer development and progression may have been unmasked.
"Going to the polls" takes on a whole new meaning when you're hospitalized. Volunteers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center make sure that all eligible voters who want to, can vote on election day -- right from their hospital bed.
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are ready to start a human treatment protocol that can reverse nerve and brain damage caused by stroke, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and spinal cord injuries. The treatment involves removal and regeneration of targeted brain cells.
In a 12-hour procedure that began at 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, two organ transplant teams at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center performed what may be the first heart/liver transplant in the Western United States. Press conference set for 10/28/98 at 1 p.m. B-Roll Available.
A new type of minimally invasive, fully endoscopic skull base brain surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gives surgeons a panoramic view of pituitary tumor sites and results in reduced O.R. time, fewer complications, no scarring, and a shorter length-of-stay.
Advanced telephone and computer technology will enable physicians attending the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in Orlando, FL, to watch, live, a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication being performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 26, 1998.
A new type of technology known as intraoperative Duplex Scanning was used for the first time at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last month to treat a car-jacking victim with critical gunshot wounds to his head and chest.
National Disability Employment Month -- Jorian Clair is a writer, editor and graphic designer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She's also almost completely blind, and has been for the 14 years that she has held this position at Cedars-Sinai.
A clinical trial at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center focuses on correctly identifying patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation, pinpointing specific "trigger" areas in their hearts and non-surgically eliminating those triggers using radiofrequency energy (ablation).
1- Telemedicine at sea, 2- Caring for the medical caretakers, 3- Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation trial, 4- medical experts for October.
An individual with the types of injuries Howard Rutman sustained in a motorcycle accident last January would typically be confined to a wheelchair for life. But 5 months after the accident he was walking again and now walks unaided.
The Lifeline(tm) program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center provides seniors with a continuum of care, emergency assistance, peace of mind, and the ability to maintain their dignity through independence.
Thanks to her own determination and the inter-disciplinary, problem-solving approach taken by her rehab team, a 27-year-old widowed tetraplegic at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has defied all medical odds and regained the ability to walk.
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