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Vascular surgeons Theodore Teruya, MD, and Sally Schonefeld, MD, have joined the Division of Vascular Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute to provide care for Pasadena-area patients with vascular diseases at Huntington Health—an affiliate of Cedars-Sinai.The addition of Teruya and Schonefeld means ... Read more

Voice of America recently featured three Smidt Heart Institute experts in two segments on women’s heart issues: C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center; Martha Gulati, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology; and Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD, professor of Cardiology ... Read more

The Globe and Mail and CBC Radio One program Saskatoon Morning with Leisha Grebinski recently interviewed cardiovascular specialist Alan Kwan, MD, an investigator in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about a study he co-authored that found a link between COVID-19 and diabetes.The ... Read more

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 14-21. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone, who will add it to next week’s collection.Anesthesiology A Theory for ... Read more

In 1998, scientists reported being able to derive cells from human embryos that could develop into almost any cell in the body. In 2007, the field took a huge leap when scientists discovered they could reprogram human adult skin cells to act like these embryonic stem cells.Adult cells transformed in ... Read more

in Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine and Research, told Nature.Early data from a clinical trial suggest that Wegovy could help patients avoid serious heart issues. The results indicate that semaglutide reduced the risk of serious cardiovascular events— including heart attack, stroke and death—by ... Read more

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 findings are published in the Journal of the American ... Read more

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 7-14. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone, who will add it to next week’s collection.Biomedical SciencesQuantification ... Read more

bsp;Francesco Boin, MD, and Nunzio Bottini, MD, PhD, authored this article. Strategies proposed for managing pregnancy, delivery for people with heart failure | Healio/Cardiology | Sept. 8 Michelle M. Kittleson, MD, PhD, is quoted. What do doctors eat for breakfast? 17 healt ... Read more