Discoveries Magazine

Matters of the Heart: Rose Tompkins, MD

Cedars-Sinai's Smidt Heart Institute Associate Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Program, Rose Tompkins, MD, shares all things heart—including her favorite love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Discoveries / Feb 08, 2020

Matters of the Heart: Evan Zahn, MD

Cedars-Sinai's Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program director, at the Smidt Heart Institute, Evan Zahn, MD, shares all things heart—including his favorite love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Discoveries / Feb 07, 2020

Matters of the Heart: Jignesh Patel, MD

Cedars-Sinai's Smidt Heart Program Heart Transplant director, Jignesh Patel, shares all things heart—including his favorite love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Discoveries / Feb 06, 2020

Matters of the Heart: C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD

Smidt Heart Institute Director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, C. Noel Bairey Merz, shares all things heart—including her favorite love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Discoveries / Feb 05, 2020

Matters of the Heart: Ali Azizzadeh, MD

Cedars-Sinai's Smidt Heart Institute Vascular Surgery director, Ali Azizzadeh, shares all things heart—including his favorite love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Discoveries / Feb 04, 2020

Improv After Cancer

Laughter may be the best medicine. The director of Cedars-Sinai's Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship program, Arash Asher, MD, helped create an improv comedy class and is evaluating its benefits to patients.

Discoveries / Jan 20, 2020

Ovarian Cancer Culprits

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai look to pinpoint genes tied to increased ovarian cancer risk. They hope the findings will help identify ways to prevent ovarian cancer from progressing to late, lethal stages.

Discoveries / Jan 20, 2020

Step It Up

Discoveries / Jan 20, 2020

An Epidemic Ignites

The usually harmless human papillomavirus (HPV) is triggering a surge of throat cancer among Baby Boomers. Two Cedars-Sinai investigators are working to ease the burden of treatment on the population most at risk: older men.

Discoveries / Jan 14, 2020

Kidney School

For children facing kidney failure, a transplant can provide 20 years of function before another donor organ must be found—or until medical advances can provide a lifelong solution.

Discoveries / Jan 10, 2020