Articles tagged with 'heart research' & 'ai' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A Cedars-Sinai clinical research coordinator won a recent employee innovation contest by inventing an AI tool to solve a decades-old problem in healthcare: how to streamline the health insurance pre-authorization process.“Through my interests in …

Researchers have identified molecular changes that appear to trigger atherosclerosis years before inflammation—the long-recognized hallmark of the disease—takes hold, according to a Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University-led study.The …

An investigational cell therapy preserved heart and muscle function in boys and young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to Phase III clinical trial results from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators and colleagues …

Investigators at Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University have developed an AI system that analyzes surgeons’ techniques during prostate cancer surgery, helping identify the surgical movements associated with the best patient outcomes while also …

The heart runs an around-the-clock fuel operation, burning almost any nutrient it can get to keep pumping. Understanding this fuel operation is the central focus of scientist Anja Karlstaedt, MD, PhD, and her team. Their work could lead to new …

Two studies from investigators at Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University move the medical field closer to solving a longstanding challenge: predicting who is at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. “The majority of people who have a sudden cardiac …

Pregnancy is a window into a woman’s cardiovascular future, a new report shows.Smidt Heart Institute cardiologist Janet Wei, MD, is one of the authors of a maternal health report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a …

Younger people who experience sudden cardiac arrest are more likely to have a genetic cause than older people who experience it, according to new research from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. The study, published in JACC: Clinical …

Cedars-Sinai clinicians now have enterprise access to an AI-enabled clinical reference tool designed to support diagnosis and treatment decisions by combining medical evidence with relevant information from a patient’s electronic health record.The …

A national study led by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University found that transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, or TTVR, delivered strong early results in real-world practice. Patients treated with TTVR experienced near …

The heart’s ability to use oxygen efficiently is a critical indicator of its health, but tests to measure this function have drawbacks that can limit their use. A new Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University study found that a new MRI system …

Susan Cheng, MD, MMSc, MPH, a clinician-scientist who has made seminal contributions to cardiovascular research and clinical care, has been appointed chair of the Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai.Throughout …

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute on Aging have awarded a multi-institutional research team led by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai $7.5 million to further study how damage to tiny blood …

What can a single molecule in just one of the body’s cells reveal about a person’s health? Quite a lot if you can find it. Cedars-Sinai investigators are doing just that.Using a powerful technology called single-cell proteomics, these detectives …

Cedars-Sinai and Canada’s largest research hospital, University Health Network (UHN), brought together more than 200 international leaders in applied artificial intelligence, medicine and surgery for the second annual Artificial Intelligence in …

An unusually high number of people developed a heart attack, lung complication or general illness within 90 days after the start of the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles, a new study from Cedars-Sinai reports. “Wildfires that spread into urban areas …

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded Cedars-Sinai researchers more than $20 million to study potential treatments for heart failure and an inherited type of heart disease.CIRM, a taxpayer-funded state …

Cedars-Sinai advanced its use of AI in 2025 to address real-world problems with real-world data—further accelerating innovation across the health system.As Mouneer Odeh, MA, chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Cedars-Sinai, looks back …

Cedars-Sinai scientists have developed an experimental drug that repairs DNA and serves as a prototype for a new class of medications that fix tissue damage caused by heart attack, inflammatory disease or other conditions.Investigators describe the …

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai and other institutions have created the largest artificial intelligence-based model for analyzing and producing reports from echocardiograms, ultrasound images doctors often use to diagnose heart disease. Their study, …

People who underwent a minimally invasive procedure to have their heart’s aortic valve replaced had similar health outcomes years after treatment as people who had surgery, Cedars-Sinai investigators and colleagues report.Raj Makkar, MD, an …

Cedars-Sinai is bolstering its machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by adopting a synthetic data platform, a move set to transform the way medical data is leveraged for research and clinical care.  Synthetic data platforms …

Cedars-Sinai has been awarded $26 million to study whether open-heart surgery or a minimally invasive procedure has better outcomes in people born with a common heart condition.Led by interventional cardiologist Raj Makkar, MD, the …

School is in session for more than 860 students, postdoctoral researchers, medical residents and fellows enrolled in Cedars-Sinai’s newly established Health Sciences University (HSU). They are the first to enroll in the new Chuck Lorre Allied Health …

Although cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death for women, they remain underrepresented in clinical trials for common heart conditions. These findings, by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, were presented at the …

A new study led by Cedars-Sinai found a pattern of racial bias in treatment recommendations generated by leading artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for psychiatric patients. The findings highlight the need for oversight to prevent powerful AI …

Cedars-Sinai is launching a new Digital Innovation Platform to create transformational solutions for some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. The initiative will leverage Cedars-Sinai’s world-class clinical expertise, infrastructure, …

A new study conducted at Cedars-Sinai reveals how the cholesterol-reducing drug evolocumab prevents heart attacks in people with coronary artery disease—a leading cause of death in the United States.Coronary artery disease occurs when cholesterol …

Three cardiovascular experts in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai received distinguished American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) awards during the ACC’s Annual Scientific Session on March …

Do physicians or artificial intelligence (AI) offer better treatment recommendations for patients examined through a virtual urgent care setting? A new Cedars-Sinai study shows physicians and AI models have distinct strengths.The late-breaking study …