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27
Apr
2023
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14:53 PM
America/Los_Angeles
ctor of the Spiritual Care Department and senior rabbi at Cedars-Sinai, Rabbi Jason Weiner, PhD, has always had a special place in his heart for organ donors and their families.But everything changed for Weiner this February, when he went from praising those selfless donors to becomin ...
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26
Apr
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study by investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai suggests long COVID-19 might be caused by a dysfunction of the immune system. The study, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, found that after people with long COVID-19 received the COVID-19 va ...
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25
Apr
2023
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
y and Transplantation Medicine.By patient volume, the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is the largest cardiothoracic transplant center—meaning heart and lung transplants—in California and the third-largest cardiothoracic transplant center in the U.S.Lung transplantation, led by Joanna Chikw ...
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19
Apr
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
s joined the Patient & Family Advisor Program in 2019 after serving both as a former employee and patient. As an employee, she worked in advanced heart disease research. As a patient, she was treated for a pulmonary embolism, a cardiac arrhythmia and other issues. When she returned to good healt ...
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18
Apr
2023
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12:32 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Scientific Sessions 2023, taking place April 19-22 in Denver. During the conference, the ISHLT also will recognize heart transplant cardiologist Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of Advanced Heart Disease and the Heart Transplant Program in the Smidt Hea ...
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18
Apr
2023
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
popularity of magnesium and whether it lives up to the recent hype circulating on social media.Magnesium is a nutrient that is key to nerve, muscle, heart and bone health, Wisniewski told HuffPost. “Magnesium is a mineral element, so it’s an essential part of helping our body function normally, ...
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17
Apr
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
ow and differentiate the stem cells to see whether microgravity has any impact on the way the cells develop into other cell types like brain and heart cells.“A major challenge for using iPSCs for therapies in humans is making enough of them at very high quality,” said co-principal investiga ...
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14
Apr
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published April 6-13. 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.CancerDiagnostic Assessment (Imagi ...
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07
Apr
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published March 30-April 6. 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 SciencesEntropic ...
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07
Apr
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
g drivers of cardiovascular aging in women and men, why the sexes experience the aging process differently, and how aging leads to different types of heart disease.“I’m honored to serve the organization in this capacity,” said Cheng, whose term begins April 21, “and I’m particularly eager ...
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