Discoveries Magazine
Inside Cedars-Sinai’s COVID-19 Response
Discoveries / Jul 22, 2024
The Weight of Stress
Discoveries / Jul 19, 2024
OR Talk: Triple Organ Transplant
Discoveries / Jul 18, 2024
Behind the Findings: Why Do Women Gain More Benefit From Exercise Than Men?
Cedars-Sinai investigators elaborate on the results of their study findings that women gain more benefit from exercise than men.
Discoveries / Jul 17, 2024
Why Wearables? Our Experts Explain
Advances in wearable technology have far-reaching potential to improve diagnosis and treatment for orthopedic patients. Cedars-Sinai is leading the way.
Discoveries / Jul 12, 2024
Study of Aging Pioneered at Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai’s new Center for Translational Geroscience is pioneering clinical trials to better understand and modulate the intrinsic aging process.
Discoveries / Jul 10, 2024
Research Aims to Improve Maternal Health Equity
Cedars-Sinai studies and initiatives aim to reduce gaps in maternal health care.
Discoveries / Jun 21, 2024
Gastroenterology Guidelines Digested
A Cedars-Sinai GI expert co-authored a lively companion book to official guidelines.
Discoveries / Jun 18, 2024
Essential Reference Outlines Deformations and How to Treat Them
A new edition of the defining reference guide on deformations and birth defects outlines the latest clinical guidance.
Discoveries / Jun 14, 2024
The Human Touch of Clinical Ethics
Virginia Bartlett, PhD, assistant director of Cedars-Sinai’s Center for Healthcare Ethics, incorporates her firsthand encounters in Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers.
Discoveries / Jun 11, 2024
The Role of Bed Nets in Malaria Prevention
In a new book, Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects, by Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD, explores the history of using bed nets to prevent malaria.
Discoveries / Jun 10, 2024
Gut Knowledge
Cedars-Sinai microbiome experts have edited a text outlining the latest research.
Discoveries / Jun 06, 2024
AI: A Look at Its Power and Potential
Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Real-World Data and Integrative Bioinformatics for Biomedical Big Data showcase AI’s revolutionary reach.
Discoveries / Jun 03, 2024
Hopeful Future
Karine Sargsyan, MD, scientific director of the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Biobank, outlines a road map in Future Intelligence: The World in 2050—Enabling Governments, Innovators, and Businesses to Create a Better Future.
Discoveries / May 31, 2024
The Psychology of Leadership
A new edition of the standard medical text on lupus offers global perspectives.
Discoveries / May 29, 2024
Confronting Conclusion: One Patient’s Inconclusive Cancer Test Drives Research to Better Understand Genetics Among Marginalized Populations
Evelyn Victor’s breast cancer variation defied detection. Now researchers are investigating genetics among diverse populations to better understand how to more accurately predict and manage risk.
Discoveries / Apr 11, 2024
Why Difficult Conversations Matter
Jessica Besbris, MD, on why physicians need to improve the way they have difficult conversations with patients.
Discoveries / Apr 08, 2024
Historic Texts May Inform Modern Bioethical Dilemmas
The director of Spiritual Care at Cedars-Sinai has written a new book that applies insights from ancient religious texts to modern bioethical dilemmas.
Discoveries / Apr 02, 2024
Crafting a Clinical Trials Hub
Clinical trials have the power to improve patient outcomes and save lives. Cedars-Sinai is at the forefront of innovation and expansion.
Discoveries / Apr 01, 2024
Exploring Data Equity to Address Sexual Health Disparities
While reproductive health inequalities plague Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander people, they’re largely left out of research.
Discoveries / Mar 29, 2024
Women’s Health Research Draws First Lady’s Attention
First lady Jill Biden tours the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Smidt Heart Institute.
Discoveries / Mar 18, 2024
New Insights May Yield Improvements in Heart and Brain Health
Ongoing research at Cedars-Sinai is investigating potential links between diseases of the heart and brain, with enormous potential for patient impact.
Discoveries / Feb 23, 2024
Cedars-Sinai and Tsinghua University Collaborate for Impact
A new relationship with prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing brings global research talent to Cedars-Sinai.
Discoveries / Jan 08, 2024
Researchers Look to Fasting as a Next Step in Cancer Treatment
Investigators are exploring whether dietary interventions, including fasting and the ketogenic diet, can improve outcomes and quality of life for patients with cancer.
Discoveries / Jan 05, 2024
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 / Nov 17, 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 / Nov 17, 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 / Nov 17, 2023