Prescription for Accuracy
Mistakes involving medications rank among the most common healthcare mishaps. But when pharmacy professionals obtain medication histories from patients admitted through the emergen...
Discoveries / Aug 02, 2018
Innovation 2: Cancer Cures in a Dish
At Cedars-Sinai, investigators are using bioengineering to regenerate and grow human tissues in petri dishes to seek solutions to cancers that primarily affect women.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
FUNGOME /fuhng-ohm/
The microbiome is popularly understood to be the community of bacteria that live and work in our guts and on our skin. But, in fact, those bacteria have a lot of neighbors—includin...
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Gut Check
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai and Emulate Inc. of Boston have created an AA battery-sized Intestine-Chip that mimics a patient’s real gut activity, bringing personalized treatments cl...
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Heart Health and a Haircut
A groundbreaking study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that African- American men successfully lowered their blood pressure to healthy levels when aided ...
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
10 Innovations to Transform Medicine in the Next Decade
Cedars-Sinai’s thinkers, doers, and caregivers offer their takes on 10 innovations that will reshape our health in the decade to come.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Innovation: It’s Academic
Can academic medical centers like Cedars-Sinai do better at shepherding innovations that help patients? Our surgeon in chief thinks so.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
My Favorite Innovation
Cedars-Sinai clinicians laud their favorite innovations in medical history, from the unsung and established to the experimental and cutting edge.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Open-Hearted
Thanks to Cedars-Sinai and interventional cardiologist Evan Zahn, MD, Cheryl Davis, 48, became the first person in the world to receive a new, implantable device for repairing cong...
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Prostate Mapquest
Prostate cancer affects 1 in 9 U.S. men. Now, breakthrough imaging technology will allow physicians to zap such tumors with unprecedented accuracy.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Innovation 1: The Digital Doctor
Brennan Spiegel, MD, says wearable biosensors like Fitbit and Apple Watch could create an e-hub for remote digital monitoring of patients.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Transformational: Maurice Garcia, MD
The director of the Cedars-Sinai Transgender Surgery and Health Program discusses building trust with patients, leading a team of specialists, and pushing cultural change in medici...
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Wingspan Spreads
A specialized stenting system used to open blocked arteries in the brain could change how we treat strokes.
Discoveries / Jul 27, 2018
Coffee To Go
Colorectal surgeon Yosef Nasseri, MD, is giving coffee to postoperative patients to see if it can reduce the recovery time for gastrointestinal function.
Discoveries / Jul 26, 2018
Diabetes Disparity
Diabetes disproportionately affects African-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Researchers are conducting studies to see if genetic and physiological causes could explain the discrep...
Discoveries / Jul 26, 2018
