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2024
March
28,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
In 2005, Paul Pharoah, PhD, MD, and colleagues organized a meeting in Cambridge, UK, to bring together researchers from around the world studying the genetics of ovarian cancer. It led to the creation of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
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March
27,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
FINDINGSActive surveillance is an established practice for managing certain low-risk cancers that are unlikely to cause harm. It is an increasingly common and effective way to manage certain early-stage cancers, including those in the prostate,
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March
27,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
New research from Cedars-Sinai suggests people who are scheduled for certain medical procedures should stop taking popular weight loss drugs in the days or weeks prior to avoid complications.Investigators found glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor
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March
26,
2024
| 09:05 AM America/Los_Angeles
Actress, singer and songwriter, Mckenna Grace, 17, is having a moment in the spotlight with the upcoming opening of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Her path to the big screen, however, is not the typical Hollywood story.When Grace was 12, her father,
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March
25,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Artist Syril Strickler was 47 when she had her first epileptic seizure, waking up in the hospital after neighbors found her unconscious in the street. For 10 years, seizures every few weeks brought her life to a virtual standstill—until Cedars-Sinai
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March
22,
2024
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Washington Post recently interviewed Martha Gulati, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, on its live newsroom platform “Washington Post Live,” for a women’s heart health discussion during American
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March
22,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The largest donation ever received by Cedars-Sinai is among the top 50 gifts to U.S. nonprofits in 2023, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.The leading periodical of the philanthropic sector ranked the $143 million planned gift from the
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March
22,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published March 14-21. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.Biomedical SciencesCT
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March
21,
2024
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Health recently interviewed Amanda Velazquez, MD, director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, about why protein is an important part of a healthy diet and which protein sources are the healthiest.Velazquez told Health
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March
21,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
It is one of the most common and painful disorders, affecting more than 6 million women in the United States. Endometriosis is often difficult to diagnose and effectively treat. But Cedars-Sinai experts find patients can now benefit from minimally
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March
20,
2024
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
HuffPost recently interviewed Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH, medical director of the Jona Goldrich Center for Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders at Cedars-Sinai, about how to correct common behaviors that could be accelerating brain aging.Tan told HuffPost that
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March
20,
2024
| 08:15 AM America/Los_Angeles
Oprah Winfrey recently interviewed Amanda Velazquez, MD, director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, about the global impact new prescription weight loss medications are having on healthcare, the
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March
20,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
From artificial intelligence (AI) and data integration to natural language processing and statistics, the Cedars-Sinai Department of Computational Biomedicine is utilizing the latest technological advances to find solutions to some of the most
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March
19,
2024
| 13:36 PM America/Los_Angeles
With cheers and tears of joy, the Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s healthcare team waved farewell to Ellyannah Lopez, who left the hospital 10 months after her birth as a micro-preemie. Ellyannah was born at just 26 weeks gestation in May 2023,
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March
18,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Berni Coleman, NP, PhD, director of Nursing Research and Quality Improvement and assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai, joined the International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) as a speaker at the group’s inaugural presentation
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March
18,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified risk factors that make inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients susceptible to developing serious conditions in other parts of their bodies.The study is published in the journal Gastroenterology.“We
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March
15,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published March 7-14. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.AnesthesiologyOverview and
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March
14,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
One group is using machine learning to develop a more reliable and efficient screening method for bladder cancer.  Another is studying how artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help predict disease outcomes through X-rays, CT scans and
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March
13,
2024
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Everyday Health recently interviewed Martha Gulati, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about the effects of alcohol consumption on heart health.Past studies have indicated that moderate alcohol
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March
13,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
For the fourth consecutive year, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai has achieved higher than expected survival rates in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell
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March
13,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
In its latest global expansion, Cedars-Sinai International announced the opening of its new global office in Singapore. “We are pleased to be extending Cedars-Sinai’s presence with our third global office as we continue to build an international
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March
12,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS, has an important message for parents whose children have been diagnosed with sarcoma, a type of cancer that develops in the bones or soft tissues.“For many children, there are treatment options and even a cure,” said
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March
11,
2024
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
WebMD recently interviewed Nancy Sicotte, MD, chair of the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai, about transient global amnesia, a rare condition that causes sudden, temporary short-term memory loss. It is most common in older and middle-aged
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March
08,
2024
| 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
LAist program AirTalk recently interviewed Margareta Pisarska, MD, director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai, about how the placenta could affect a baby’s
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March
08,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Ha reaparecido una enfermedad infantil muy contagiosa, antaño erradicada por la vacunación.A nivel mundial, los casos de sarampión aumentaron un 79% en 2023, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud. En 2022, la OMS estimó que el sarampión mató a
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March
08,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Feb. 29-March 7. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.Biomedical SciencesOnline
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March
08,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai recently became one of four institutions in the U.S. and the first on the West Coast to use a new device aimed at lowering blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension. Cedars-Sinai is
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March
07,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Laurence Katznelson, MD, a national leader in graduate medical education and a distinguished physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism, will join Cedars-Sinai as vice dean of Medical Education on May 1.Katznelson will oversee
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March
07,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
As an on-the-go mother of two equally on-the-go preschoolers, Yessenia Paez was accustomed to dealing with common parenting stress. But when 24/7 anxiety, heart palpitations, hand tremors and chronic headaches became the norm for the better part of
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March
06,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators found that blocking a protein called interleukin-1-beta improved cardiac dysfunction and arrythmias in Kawasaki disease, a rare illness that affects children and causes their blood vessels to swell and
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