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2023
September
27,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Sixteen-year-old Rishee Ray is making history at Cedars-Sinai as the first pediatric patient to undergo halo-gravity traction ahead of spinal surgery.Rishee has spent most of his life in a wheelchair due to a condition known as spinal muscular atroph...
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September
21,
2023
| 13:00 PM America/Los_Angeles
Alfred E. Mann possessed a rare superpower: He could seamlessly connect the dots between science and philanthropy to improve the lives of people all over the world. Today, seven years after his passing, Mann extends his legacy as a scientific trailbl...
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September
18,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Pregnant women with a history of substance abuse face a dramatically increased risk of death from heart attack and stroke during childbirth when compared with women without history of substance abuse, a new Smidt Heart Institute study shows.These fin...
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September
14,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A few weeks from now, Lizbeth Sanchez will say goodbye to her job in a Smidt Heart Institute laboratory and walk about 200 steps to a Cedars-Sinai classroom, where she will begin working on her doctorate in biomedical and translational research.It’s ...
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September
12,
2023
| 10:56 AM America/Los_Angeles
It still feels like summer outside, but it’s time to prepare for the 2023-24 flu season. Flu season started early in the Southern Hemisphere, which typically gives experts some clues as to what we’ll experience here in the U.S. To avoid getting caugh...
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September
11,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
As the use of artificial intelligence continues to rapidly evolve, Cedars-Sinai is tapping its own experts to create and deploy AI-driven solutions to real-time healthcare challenges.  Through new “Idea-thons,” frontline clinical and administrative l...
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September
07,
2023
| 07:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
In a move that aims to transform the lives of young athletes in underserved communities, Cedars-Sinai Team HEAL (Helping Enrich Athletes' Lives), in partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District, is expanding its program to include more studen...
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September
05,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
As summer ends, fall begins, and so does the start of influenza season—a time of year that fills up hospitals and gives healthcare workers an extra layer of stress.At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, however, patient care staff can step into a “Serenity ...
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August
31,
2023
| 15:30 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators are leaders in the innovation and use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with balloon-expandable valves. They now show that redo TAVR procedures are both safe and effective when compared with situations in whi...
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August
26,
2023
| 15:30 PM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are one step closer to helping individuals catch a sudden cardiac arrest before it happens, thanks to a study published today in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Digital Health.The stud...
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August
21,
2023
| 06:15 AM America/Los_Angeles
The temperature feels like summer is still in full swing, yet this week, thousands of Los Angeles schoolchildren headed back to the classroom."Everyone knows that the first weeks of school can be stressful for students,” said Suzanne Silverstein, MA,...
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August
18,
2023
| 15:43 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center again has earned a five-star hospital rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—the highest distinction from the federal agency. This is the sixth straight time that Cedars-Sinai has been rated among t...
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August
17,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
The start of the school year can be tough for many children. For some, the struggle might last just a few days. For others, however, a difficult transition back to school might be a sign of an undetected behavioral or developmental condition that req...
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August
14,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Artificial intelligence (AI) is capturing the public imagination as the pace of innovation accelerates sharply and easy-to-use AI tools offer new possibilities to transform whole industries.Building on a legacy of innovation, Cedars-Sinai is harnessi...
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August
10,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
This summer, like every summer since COVID-19 arrived on the scene, the U.S. is experiencing a spike in infections and hospitalizations.Only this time, there’s good news: The number of infections hasn’t increased as much as in past summers. Plus, mos...
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July
31,
2023
| 21:01 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has been named to the Honor Roll for the eighth consecutive year and tied for #1 in California and Los Angeles in U.S. News & World Report’s "Best Hospitals 2023-24" rankings.  The U.S. News rankings, released Tuesday, are based on patie...
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July
24,
2023
| 07:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Valance Sams Sr.’s world was turned upside down 10 years ago when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease that caused a buildup of scar tissue on his heart and left him unable to work, exercise or even walk.But today, Sams walk...
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July
20,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Donnè Ward, a Mira Costa High School sophomore, has always been interested in medicine. So interested that his grandmother, Trena Lawson, said he was 5 when he first talked about becoming a doctor.  As a member of the Los Angeles Clippers Mentorship ...
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July
11,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 10 health-tech companies from around the world to its ninth accelerator class. The businesses are building a variety of healthcare solutions—from monitoring devices for sepsis, heart failure and stroke, to vi...
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July
10,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Record rain this winter wreaked havoc on Los Angeles area hiking trails, damaging roads and dumping snow at lower elevations than normal. As the weather heats up, and the last of the snow melts, day hikers should plan ahead to avoid on-trail hazards ...
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July
03,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
A twin baby boom has taken over the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, with 10 sets of twins in the unit at the same time. Healthcare workers aren’t sure if it’s an official record, but it sure is close. “We are ve...
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June
30,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
COVID-19 vaccination helped reduce disparities in disease incidence between low- and high-income communities, according to a new analysis led by Cedars-Sinai investigators.While lower-income communities had lower vaccination rates than higher-income ...
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June
29,
2023
| 09:01 AM America/Los_Angeles
Experts from Cedars-Sinai, BlackDoctors.org, the California Black Women’s Health Project and the Morehouse School of Medicine participated in a recent discussion that addressed the high rate of pregnancy-related deaths among Black mothers.The one-hou...
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June
28,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The summit is a good place to be.Staying active on the hiking trails around the southern highlands of Australia, where he retired earlier this year after a career in film marketing, Jon Anderson is feeling there’s little he can’t conquer.And he gives...
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June
27,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease characterized by thickening and scarring of the skin and vital organs, and the narrowing of the blood vessels which lead to poor circulation.  An estimated 100,000 people in the U.S. are living with scleroderma, a...
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June
20,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Later this summer, staff members at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital will spring into action when a pretend patient comes to the Emergency Department with symptoms of a virus like Ebola, one of the deadliest, most infectious diseases on the plane...
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June
14,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Physicians at Cedars-Sinai Cancer are using a unique chemotherapy delivery system that offers hope to colorectal cancer patients whose disease has spread and who now have inoperable liver tumors. Cedars-Sinai is one of the few centers in the area to ...
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June
08,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
For children who develop severe scoliosis—a spine that curves and twists to the side—surgery or a corrective brace worn throughout the day might be their only options. But if caught early enough, the condition can often be treated in a less invasive ...
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June
07,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
New research from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows that patients who went to a hospital with a heart attack and were simultaneously sick with COVID-19 were three times more likely to die than patients experiencing a heart attack withou...
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May
31,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The school year is winding down, summer is around the corner and that means more children are splashing into swimming pools, whether in a backyard, at summer camp, or at recreation center pools. Along with the fun, though, are the very real dangers o...
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