Discoveries Magazine
New Surgery Chair Leads with Collaboration
Discoveries / Jun 08, 2023
Higher Stress Levels May Cause Weight Gain in Women
Discoveries / Jun 06, 2023
How to Stamp Out Burnout
Discoveries / Jun 01, 2023
Psychiatry for Visual Learners
With Atlas of Psychiatry, Waguih IsHak, MD, has edited the first visual reference of its kind.
Discoveries / May 30, 2023
Pediatric Obesity: Cedars-Sinai Experts on New Guidelines
Emerging understanding of childhood obesity has inspired new guidelines that suggest pediatricians should intervene early with more aggressive measures. Here, Cedars-Sinai experts outline the risk factors for childhood and adolescent obesity and its mechanisms and offer context for the new clinical practice guidelines.
Discoveries / May 25, 2023
A Call for Change: Equity and Patient-Centered Care
Patient-centered care is one of the most commonly used phrases in medicine. It’s what physicians believe in and what we promise to deliver. Yet we cannot provide patient-centered care unless we grapple with one of the most urgent challenges in healthcare today: health equity.
Discoveries / May 23, 2023
Residency Programs Move Toward Greater Diversity
This year, Cedars-Sinai welcomed our most diverse class of residents ever. We hear from our residents firsthand about their experiences.
Discoveries / May 16, 2023
Can Rethinking CPR Training Benefit Women?
Doctors and bystanders perform CPR less often on women. Offering CPR training on mannequins with breasts may encourage people to help females in need of CPR.
Discoveries / May 11, 2023
Physician Shadowing Program Offers Students Rare Access
Leaping into a career as a physician requires sure footing. Cedars-Sinai’s Pre-Med Student Volunteer Program gives undergrads a rare glimpse into the real jobs of physicians.
Discoveries / May 10, 2023
New Tools at the Innovation Center
At the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Innovation Center (BOGIC), clinicians are leveraging cutting edge tools to search for the earliest signs of cancer and heart disease.
Discoveries / May 09, 2023
Regenerative Medicine: A New Path for ALS Treatment
A first-of-its-kind stem cell therapy for ALS passes a critical safety benchmark, advancing the search to slow down, reverse and prevent the disease. In a parallel study, investigators are growing patient-derived stem cells to model ALS, hoping to uncover its mechanisms and classify it with more specificity. Can the cure to this degenerative condition lie in the endlessly regenerative power of stem cells?
Discoveries / May 01, 2023
Cedars-Sinai Clinicians Publish Collection of Complex Cases in Interventional Cardiology
Interventional cardiologists can consult a broad collection of cases to guide them through management strategies.
Discoveries / Apr 27, 2023
Living in AI’s Endless Summer
AI is a powerful tool poised to be wielded by any physician, coming at the same time healthcare struggles to overcome the disparities created by bias.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
A Better Model of Heart Disease Prediction
Cedars-Sinai investigators are using AI to predict heart disease..
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
AI Predicts Opioid Addiction
Cedars-Sinai investigators are predicting which patients will suffer from opioid dependency after spine surgery.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
AI Predicts Cancer in Children
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to predict cancer in children.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
How to Collect Clean Data
To obtain clean data in healthcare research, AI software should be trained with natural language processing.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
The Doctor Is Still the Boss in the AI Era
Clinicians should harness the power of AI in research and patient care—but always maintain responsibility for their tools.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
Dr. Tiffani Bright: AI Evangelist and Skeptic
Tiffani Bright believes in the power of AI medicine, and she believes developers have the power to wield this powerful tool to support health equity.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
Machine-Learning Model Predicts Birth Method
Birth and maternal outcomes are a serious area of health outcome disparity in the US. An AI tool aims to better predict who is going to deliver vaginally and who will have a C-section, potentially reducing unnecessary c-sections.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
AI's Ascendance in Medicine: A Timeline
The 1970s saw scientists begin to explore AI in medicine. Less than a century later, the technology has proliferated.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
Reducing Bias in AI Models
A Cedars-Sinai team describes how to train an AI model to reduce bias.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
The Human Factor of Artificial Intelligence
Powerful promise hangs in the balance with potential peril as hospital systems integrate artificial intelligence into research and patient care.
Discoveries / Apr 20, 2023
Virtual Reality and the Brain-Body Connection
Cedars-Sinai investigators reveal how virtual reality works for nonopioid pain management.
Discoveries / Apr 05, 2023
Innovation and Collaboration in Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's
Guerin Children’s experts offer insights into research and treatment that seeks to serve patients from gestation to graduation.
Discoveries / Apr 04, 2023
Mastering the Art of Patient Care Provides Readers With a How-to-Guide for Practicing Medicine
Dr. Michelle Kittleson’s new book provides a how-to guide for practicing medicine in a way that centers patients.
Discoveries / Apr 03, 2023
A Scleroderma Expert on Treating Autoimmune Disease
Dr. Francesco Boin, director of the Scleroderma Program and member of the Kao Autoimmunity Institute, on his vision for the future.
Discoveries / Mar 31, 2023