Articles tagged with 'Research' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Research)

2024
March
28,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
In 2005, Paul Pharoah, PhD, MD, and colleagues organized a meeting in Cambridge, UK, to bring together researchers from around the world studying the genetics of ovarian cancer. It led to the creation of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
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March
27,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
FINDINGSActive surveillance is an established practice for managing certain low-risk cancers that are unlikely to cause harm. It is an increasingly common and effective way to manage certain early-stage cancers, including those in the prostate,
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March
27,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
New research from Cedars-Sinai suggests people who are scheduled for certain medical procedures should stop taking popular weight loss drugs in the days or weeks prior to avoid complications.Investigators found glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor
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March
18,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified risk factors that make inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients susceptible to developing serious conditions in other parts of their bodies.The study is published in the journal Gastroenterology.“We
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March
12,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS, has an important message for parents whose children have been diagnosed with sarcoma, a type of cancer that develops in the bones or soft tissues.“For many children, there are treatment options and even a cure,” said
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March
08,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai recently became one of four institutions in the U.S. and the first on the West Coast to use a new device aimed at lowering blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension. Cedars-Sinai is
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March
06,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators found that blocking a protein called interleukin-1-beta improved cardiac dysfunction and arrythmias in Kawasaki disease, a rare illness that affects children and causes their blood vessels to swell and
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March
01,
2024
| 09:58 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have used artificial intelligence (AI) to help computers access some of the most important and difficult-to-mine information in cancer patients’ medical records: pathology reports. Their method, described in the
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February
29,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
New Frontiers in Treating GI CancersIn advance of the fifth annual Cedars-Sinai Gastrointestinal Tumor Conference, an event for healthcare professionals seeking updates on the most recent advances in these therapies, Andrew Hendifar, MD, sat down
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February
29,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Gastrointestinal cancers were once diagnosed primarily by location. A tumor in the liver was liver cancer, while one in the pancreas was pancreatic. The few chemotherapy treatments available affected the entire patient—sometimes causing difficult
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February
28,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Patients diagnosed with steatotic liver disease (formerly called fatty liver disease) are usually advised to stop drinking alcoholic beverages. But a new study led by Cedars-Sinai found that drinking, on average, a small amount of alcohol a day did
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February
27,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Two leading multiple sclerosis (MS) experts—Nancy Sicotte, MD, chair of the Department of Neurology and director of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology at Cedars-Sinai, and Pascal Sati, PhD, director of the Neuro Imaging Program in the Department
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February
26,
2024
| 14:00 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have detailed a new way that bacteria use iron to cooperate and resist antibiotic treatment. The study, led by the Cedars-Sinai departments of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is published in the
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February
23,
2024
| 11:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered why some injured kidneys heal while others develop scarring that can lead to kidney failure. Their findings, detailed in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science, could lead to the development
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February
20,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Patients who present with persistent atrial fibrillation at diagnosis are more likely to have certain risk factors as compared with patients with occasional atrial fibrillation (AFib). The findings, led by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute
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February
19,
2024
| 11:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows there is a gap between women and men when it comes to exercise.The findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), show that women can exercise less
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February
19,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
The pain experienced by hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is routinely treated with opioid medication, but with little success in actually controlling major discomfort. Cedars-Sinai investigators developed a Proactive
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February
16,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Experts at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai who have studied progress made over decades of research say there’s still a long way to go before medical science fully understands how heart disease is different in women than men.But there is
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February
14,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
A collaborative group of investigators used artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly and accurately measure fat around the heart using a low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan during a routine test. The technique, identified by the Division of
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February
13,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s opened a clinic today to provide specialized multidisciplinary care for children with Angelman syndrome, a rare and severe neurodevelopmental condition.“Children with Angelman syndrome present significant difficulties
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February
13,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai physicians in the Department of Medicine have created a taxonomy—a classification system including comprehensive, standardized terminology—for the rapidly evolving field of medical extended reality (MXR). The taxonomy was published in
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February
12,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Imagine a world in which the digital watch on your wrist tracks not only your step count, but also your blood sugar, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. Then, the watch automatically sends a personalized health snapshot to your physician,
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February
08,
2024
| 09:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Physicians in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have achieved two significant firsts: completing the institute’s 100th minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement and performing the first-ever implantation of a new bioprosthetic
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February
07,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
FINDINGSCedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have discovered a protein expressed on multiple myeloma cancer cells that drives disease growth and development. The new study found that blocking part of the protein’s unique signaling pathway stops myeloma
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February
06,
2024
| 15:21 PM America/Los_Angeles
BACKGROUNDInvestigators from Cedars-Sinai; the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Harvard University; and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel conducted a study to determine where individual nutrients are absorbed in the small
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February
01,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators in the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai wanted to find out which factors influenced susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and disease severity the most. Was it genetics? Or was it home environment, meaning the
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February
01,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Chemotherapy can be toxic to heart cells. To help protect the hearts of cancer patients, Cedars-Sinai investigators have created a three-dimensional “heart-on-a-chip” to evaluate drug safety. In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Lab on
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January
31,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Polypharmacy Prescription: Better Interventions Needed to Reduce RisksInterventions to address the risks older people can face taking multiple medications need significant improvement, according to a study by Cedars-Sinai investigators. The findings
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January
29,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Interventions to address the risks older people can face taking multiple medications need significant improvement, according to a study by Cedars-Sinai investigators.The findings are published in JAMA Network Open.The development and use of
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January
26,
2024
| 13:13 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai physician-scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind program that uses immersive virtual reality and generative artificial intelligence to provide mental health support.Known as the eXtended-Reality Artificially Intelligent Ally, or
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