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Angelica Ponce was on cloud nine. She was in her mid-20s and starting her dream job as a kindergarten teacher. Recently, she also had become engaged to her high school sweetheart and was excited to start wedding planning.Within weeks, though, …

A Cedars-Sinai surgeon recently performed the medical center’s first fully robotic kidney transplant, paving the way for more patients to undergo the less invasive method, which results in less pain and faster healing for patients.For nearly two …

NBC 4 and ABC 7 recently featured the extraordinary story of Valance Sams Sr., a Baldwin Hills man who received a triple organ transplant at Cedars-Sinai. Sams is one of just 46 people in the U.S. to receive a heart, liver and kidney …

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 …