Discoveries Magazine
A Double-Edged Sword: Inflammation and Your Health
Discoveries / February 12, 2021
Being Patient: The Delicate Timing of Organ Transplantation
Discoveries / February 15, 2021
Cleaning With Courage
Cedars-Sinai's Environmental Services staff have always worked with extreme caution. In the late 1800s, this handheld steam machine dispensed a thick yellow fog of carbolic acid into the operating chamber during procedures to kill ...
Discoveries / Oct 27, 2020
A Real-Life Stress Test
Postpartum depression (PPD) is the most common complication new mothers experience, affecting 1 in 7 women, and one of the ailments they’re most reluctant to talk about. Cedars-Sinai is working to identify, treat and predict postpartum ...
Discoveries / Oct 16, 2020
Caution Vape
Vaping may be as harmful to the heart as traditional cigarettes—if not more so, but it's not just the nicotine. We asked Florian Rader, MD, of the of the Cedars-Sinai Human Physiology Laboratory what is likely causing the most harm. Read...
Discoveries / Oct 12, 2020
Under Pressure
About 11 million Americans with high blood pressure don’t know they have the condition which raises the likelihood of a heart attack, heart failure and stroke when not detected early enough. The stakes might be even higher for women. ...
Discoveries / Oct 12, 2020
Word: CREPITUS
Crepitus, that grating, crackling or popping sounds that noise that accompanies flexing a joint. What is it and should it worry you?
Discoveries / Feb 17, 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
Tumors & Plants: What They Have in Common
Cancer cells can reshape their surrounding environments—just like invasive plants.
Discoveries / Jan 16, 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
Family Ties
When Sonja Rosen, MD, was a student at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, she served as a teen volunteer at Cedars-Sinai. Now it’s her daughter’s turn. Fourteen-year-old Clarissa joined the Teen Volunteers Program last fall. A recent ...
Discoveries / Jan 09, 2020
No-Fun Fungus: Head and Shoulders and Gut
Dandruff linked to Crohn’s disease.
Discoveries / Dec 19, 2019