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azaro said.
Lazaro formed an organization, which is currently seeking nonprofit status, called PPE Now Los Angeles. She's the whirlwind at the heart of it, but she draws occasional help from her graphic designer brother, friends and new acquaintances.
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syndrome are of African ancestry. Many of these patients developed rashes, conjunctivitis and myocarditis, a condition caused by inflammation of the heart muscle that makes it harder for the heart to pump blood and can cause a rapid or abnormal heartbeat. All of these symptoms are often seen in chi ... Read more
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e virus.
Illnesses that smokers often develop impact many of the same major organs as COVID-19. Doctors and researchers have noted that the lungs, heart and the vascular system are particularly vulnerable when a person becomes infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
“Smokers often have ... Read more
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Our Weekly recently wrote about an experimental heart treatment developed by Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, executive director of the Smidt Heart Institute, that helped a critically ill patient recover from COVID-19.
The Our Weekly story begins when Keith Miles’ wife c ... Read more
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Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, director of Public Health Research at the Smidt Heart Institute, about the differences between women's and men's hearts and how each sex experiences heart disease.
Risk factors such as smoking and diabetes affect women more deeply, which may be related to risi ... Read more
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ows down. This can eventually lead to a host of both physical and emotional problems later in life, including higher levels of inflammatory diseases, heart disease, obesity and hypertension, as well as lower academic achievement and career growth.
But there are ways parents can help, Hedrick said ... Read more
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no need for face-to-face contact," Reinier said. "If a patient receives bystander CPR it doubles their chances of survival."
Unlike heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), which are typically caused by clogged coronary arteries reducing blood flow to the heart muscle, sudden cardia ... Read more
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a loved one’s presence in the form of a butterfly or a beautiful natural setting.
“You just want to find a way to bring her into your heart, so you don’t feel alone,” Jones said.
Click here to read the complete story from the Los Angeles Times.
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o;s Health Expo.
Janet Wei, MD; Chrisandra Shufelt, MD, MS; Simona Campa, NP; and former fellow Lili Loni Barsky, MD, discussed the latest news in heart disease—the #1 cause of death for U.S. women.
Lamar asked the panelists about the risk factors, types of heart attacks and symptoms tha ... Read more
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Heart transplant patient Sean Tiwanak pulled on plenty of heartstrings when he plucked his ukulele and sang a duet in his Cedars-Sinai hospital room with Lily Stern, MD, two days before his life-saving surgery.
As Stern – wearing a face shield and mask as protection against CO ... Read more
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More than three years after a clinical trial was prematurely ended for failing to show progress in healing heart attack scars, a prominent peer-reviewed journal is publishing some surprising results s Read more
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Cedars-Sinai's Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, announced the appointment of faculty member Margo B. Minissian, PhD, as the inaugural holder of t Read more
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Cedars-Sinai's Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, announced the appointment of faculty member Margo B. Minissian, PhD, as the inaugural holder of t Read more
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Sam Torbati, MD, has a message for anyone experiencing symptoms of heart disease in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic:"Either call your doctor or come to the Emergency Department. Don't take Read more
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Sam Torbati, MD, has a message for anyone experiencing symptoms of heart disease in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic:"Either call your doctor or come to the Emergency Department. Don't take Read more
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Journalist’s Resource a news source based at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, recently featured a report on Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director Read more
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Cedars-Sinai experts in the Smidt Heart Institute are making heart health a priority for cancer survivors and patients through the Cardio-Oncology Program.
The program is more relevant than ever be Read more
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What do the latest studies and guidelines say about preventing heart disease, especially in women? Cedars-Sinai experts provided updates in honor of American Heart Month. Here are some highlights:
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Around Cedars-Sinai, Susan Nicholson is known simply as "the heart lady."
That's because since 2013 Nicholson has been making and delivering roughly 50 crocheted hearts each week to p Read more
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A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and other centers nationwide shows that patients who underwent a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), had simila Read more
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For the 10th consecutive year, the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai ranked first in the country for completing more adult heart transplants than any other U.S. medical center.
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TIME magazine recently interviewed Florian Rader, MD, MSc, medical director of the Human Physiology Laboratory and assistant director of the Non-Invasive Laboratory at the Smidt Heart Institute at Ced Read more
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Actress, singer and activist Barbra Streisand has teamed up again with Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, t Read more
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A new study from researchers at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows that electronic nicotine delivery systems, including devices such as e-cigarettes, may be just as harmful to the heart, Read more
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Worried whether your heart health is strong enough for sex? A new study may lay your fears to rest: The risk that sex would trigger a sudden cardiac arrest is exceedingly small.
While sudden cardia Read more
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A study of thousands of patients with the most common form of heart disease shows that many are not receiving the best treatment to prevent future heart attacks and extend their lives.
The study of Read more
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Since August, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a minimally invasive heart valve procedure for an expanded group of patients with aortic stenosis, Raj Makkar, MD, vice president of Read more
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When James Inman, 59, first experienced chest pain one night, he tried to brush it off and go back to sleep. But the pain became unbearable and Inman felt like something was wrong, so he called 911.
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When James Inman, 59, first experienced chest pain one night, he tried to brush it off and go back to sleep. But the pain became unbearable and Inman felt like something was wrong, so he called 911.
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Following an extensive national search, physician-scientist Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, has been named founding Chair of the newly established Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Instit Read more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an editorial written by two Cedars-Sinai doctors, Bruce Gewertz, MD, and Michael Nurok, MD, PhD, urging health system Read more
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Heart surgeon Joanna Chikwe, FRCS, has been named Chair of the newly established Department of Cardiac Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Chikwe’s appointm Read more
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Heart surgeon Joanna Chikwe, FRCS, has been named Chair of the newly established Department of Cardiac Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Chikwe’s appointm Read more
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The Curbsiders podcasters recently interviewed Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute, about rethinking the paradigm of cor Read more
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MDLinx recently interviewed Joel Geiderman, MD, FACEP, professor and co-chairman of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, about a recently published article addressing the ethical and practical consider Read more
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MDLinx recently interviewed Joel Geiderman, MD, FACEP, professor and co-chairman of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, about a recently published article addressing the ethical and practical consider Read more
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ABC 7 recently interviewed Raj Khandwalla, MD, assistant professor at the Smidt Heart Institute, about new research from the American Heart Association that shows the age a patient is d Read more
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Roxanne Hanks, an independent insurance broker from Simi Valley, is living proof that aneurysms are not always a deadly condition. Hanks' own subtle yet persistent symptoms were in fact signs of a Read more
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Roxanne Hanks, an independent insurance broker from Simi Valley, is living proof that aneurysms are not always a deadly condition. Hanks' own subtle yet persistent symptoms were in fact signs of a Read more
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Fox 11’s Good Day LA recently interviewed cardiologist Raj Khandwalla, MD, director of cardiovascular education at the Smidt Heart Institute, about a genetic link connecting insomnia with heart Read more
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Fox 11’s Good Day LA recently interviewed cardiologist Raj Khandwalla, MD, director of cardiovascular education at the Smidt Heart Institute, about a genetic link connecting insomnia with heart Read more
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Fox 11’s Good Day LA recently interviewed cardiologist Raj Khandwalla, MD, director of cardiovascular education at the Smidt Heart Institute, about a genetic link connecting insomnia with heart Read more
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L.A. Parent recently interviewed Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD, a cardiologist at the Smidt Heart Institute and a mother of three boys, about heart-healthy habits that parents should adopt for their chi Read more
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In honor of Heart Month, three Smidt Heart Institute social workers, a nurse transplant coordinator and a cardiologist explained why they choose to specialize in heart transplantation. Here, in their Read more
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With Heart Month in full swing, cardiologist Robert Siegel, MD, the interim director of Cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute, offers four tips to keep your heart healthy.
"A heart healthy l Read more
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Runner’s World recently interviewed Victoria Kang, DO, a family medicine physician at Cedars-Sinai’s Playa Vista office, about five symptoms that might indicate you’re not getting en Read more
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The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai once again ranked first in the country for completing more adult heart transplants in 2018 than any other U.S. medical center.
The Smidt Heart Institute tr Read more
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CNN recently interviewed Sumeet Chugh, MD, professor of medicine and associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about how the most common time to experience sudden cardiac arrest Read more
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From testing barbershop-based care for hypertension to being the first to use new devices to treat aneurysms, 2018 at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute produced clinical-based advances with t Read more
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From testing barbershop-based care for hypertension to being the first to use new devices to treat aneurysms, 2018 at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute produced clinical-based advances with t Read more
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From testing barbershop-based care for hypertension to being the first to use new devices to treat aneurysms, 2018 at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute produced clinical-based advances with t Read more
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The BBC radio program More or Less recently interviewed Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, on the differenc Read more
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WebMD’s Kathy Doheny recently interviewed Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of the Heart Transplant Program at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, on the pros and cons of receiving an organ f Read more
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Robb Report journalist Lisa Sweetingham recently interviewed a Smidt Heart Institute cardiologist and one of her patients about why women with heart disease often face problems getting properly diagno Read more
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A team led by a Cedars-Sinai physician-scientist has discovered a biomarker—a protein found in the blood—for the most common type of heart failure, a new study published today in JAMA Card Read more
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Heart experts have long believed that weekday mornings – and especially Mondays – were the danger zones for unexpected deaths from sudden cardiac arrests. But a new Cedars-Sinai study show Read more
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Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute, recently sat down with NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver to discuss whether there is Read more
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NBC News recently attended a dance class taught by Debbie Allen to see how the famous choreographer helps Cedars-Sinai cancer patients cope with their diagnoses, persevere through challenging treatmen Read more
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Women who complain about chest pain often are reassured by their doctors that there is no reason to worry because their angiograms show that the women don't have blockages in the major heart arter Read more
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The Today Show sat down with Ronald G. Victor, MD, associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute, to learn why he turned to African-American barbers to help cut high blood pressure in the community. Read more
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Contact: Laura Coverson | laura.coverson@cshs.org
Volleyball competitor Holly Miyagawa will represent Cedars-Sinai on the Donate Life Float in the 2018 Rose Parade on New Year' Read more
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Gift will boost crucial research, education to combat growing, lethal incidence of women's heart diseaseLos Angeles - June 15, 2012 –The Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center in Cedars-S Read more
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Van Eyk Also to Lead Basic Research into Gender Differences in Heart Disease at Barbra Streisand Women's Heart CenterLos Angeles - March 19, 2014 - Prominent proteomic and cardiac scientist Jennif Read more
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Los Angeles - March 19, 2012 -Two physicians from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute will receive the American College of Cardiology’s highest honors for scientific research and clinical care duri Read more
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New Congenital Heart Disease Program to offer lifelong treatment and nonsurgical options to patients with structural heart problemsLos Angeles – Aug. 1, 2012 – Evan Zahn, MD, an expert in Read more
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In TEDxGrandForks Talk, Timothy Henry, MD, Reviews Latest Scientific Findings from Clinical Trials Using Stem Cells to Treat Heart Disease Patients
Los Angeles - June 17, 2014 – Stem cell therap Read more
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California Institute for Regenerative Medicine funds Cedars-Sinai research into mechanism behind stem cell therapy for heart attack patientsLos Angeles - Sept. 6, 2012 – A team of Cedars-Sinai H Read more
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Contact Jane Engle | Email: jane.engle@cshs.org
Los Angeles — April 6, 2017 — Investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have learned how cardiac muscle cells react to a certain typ Read more
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Contact Sally Stewart or Diane Wedner | Email: sally.stewart@cshs.org or diane.wedner@cshs.org
Los Angeles — April 4, 2017 — Two prominent Cedars-Sinai investigators — one leading th Read more
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Contact Sally Stewart | sally.stewart@cshs.org
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Los Angeles — June 22, 2017, Updated Oct. 9, 2017 — Heart disease is not a top health concern for Read more
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Contact Sally Stewart | sally.stewart@cshs.org or Ariane Le Chevallier | holma@ohsu.edu
"Because so few survive a sudden cardiac arrest, it is imperative that we be able to predict which patients Read more
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