Mount Sinai School of Medicine conducting clinical trials with gene therapy for colorectal cancer
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine began clinical trials on a unique and promising approach to gene therapy for colorectal cancer. The study uses genes to make the cancer cells look foreign to the body's immune system, which will then attack and destroy the cancer. ... Colorectal cancer is the second leading cancer killer in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that....LOS ANGELES (Sept. 7, 1999) -- The cardiothoracic surgery team at Cedars-Sinai.Medical Center has recruited a heart transplant surgeon who specializes in.implanting mechanisms that allow a defective heart to rest while awaiting a.transplant.. .Kathy Elizabeth Magliato, M.D., recently served as cardiothoracic transplant.fellow and clinical instructor of cardiothoracic transplant surgery at the.U....LOS ANGELES -- Researchers at the Center for Women's Health at.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are launching a clinical trial to assess whether.eating certain plant compounds can have positive effects on the lining of the.uterus. These plant compounds, called "isoflavones," are found in particularly.high amounts in clover and soybeans. Isoflavones are also known as."phytoestrogens" because they h...Cedars-Sinai medical tip sheet (b)
. . Experimental testosterone patch shows promise for treating diminished sexual.function in surgically menopausal women . .According to a recent study, an experimental testosterone patch offers new hope.for women who suffer from diminished sexual function as a result of surgical.menopause (removal of the ovaries and uterus). Glenn Braunstein, M.D., Chair of.the Department of Medicine at Cedars....LOS ANGELES -- Scientists from.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and the University of Calgary in.Alberta, Canada will present on Monday, June 14, findings of a study that for.the first time has detected and measured contaminants from certain pesticides.and industrial chemicals in the amniotic fluid of unborn babies.. .This study was not designed to determine whether exposure to these....LOS ANGELES (June 8, 1999) -- A two-year study at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.has culminated in the discovery of a molecular mechanism that transduces stress.signals from the brain to other regions of the body. These stress signals are.produced in response to physical or psychological trauma.. .The molecule--leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)--is the connecting interface.between the hypothalamus,....LOS ANGELES (May 2, 1999) -- Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are.presenting three scientific lectures and several poster-session exhibits at the.Pediatric Academic Societies' 1999 Annual Meeting May 1 through 4 in San.Francisco.. .The first lecture was presented at 9:45 a.m. Sunday, May 2, as part of a program.on neuroprotective strategies for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy - the...Cedars-Sinai Medical Tip Sheet For April 15 (A)
. .Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers a Pediatric Headache Clinic that specializes.in diagnosing and treating the headaches of children and adolescents, especially.challenging and complicated cases. Because headaches can be caused by a host of.sources--ranging from tension and hormonal dysfunctions to meningitis and brain.tumors--an occasional headache should not be overly alarming but recurring....For years, doctors and scientists have sought to understand a complicated.mechanism that triggers an over-aggressive immune response in many patients who.suffer from severe microbial infections. This immune system overreaction often.leads to septic shock, for which no reliable treatments have been found.. .Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta show.that mort....LOS ANGELES (March 8, 1999) -- When Marcia Litt was diagnosed with breast cancer.at age 48, she was worried about more than her medical outcome. Her fears also.focused on the possibility that her children -- and other family members --.could develop the same disease. Marcia had already seen two of her aunts succumb.to breast cancer, and began to wonder if there might be a genetic susceptibility...Cedars-Sinai Scientists Localize New Ataxia/Epilepsy Gene
. .So far, five spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) genes have been identified. The.ataxia caused by the SCA 10 gene localized by the Cedars-Sinai team is different.from the other ataxias. One of these, the occurrence of seizures in 20 percent.of family members suffering from the disease, indicates a possible link with.epilepsy. Further study of the new gene is expected to shed new light not only.on...Cedars-Sinai Tip Sheet For Dec. 21
."HEART WATCH" CORONARY CALCIUM SCAN OFFERS MOST ACCURATE METHOD AVAILABLE.FOR DETECTING HEART DISEASE EARLY .Heart Watch, a new cardiac program that features a coronary calcium scan, is.now part of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's arsenal in the war on heart.disease. This high-tech weapon, made by Imatron, Inc., is a C-150 Ultrafast.CT Scanner. Also known as an Electron Beam CT or EBCT, this highl...Cedars-Sinai Scientist Finds Malignancy Gene In Tumor Cells
. .LOS ANGELES -- A scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has discovered a gene.that exists in malignant tumors of the brain, liver, breast, colon, kidney, and.reproductive organs, but not in healthy adults, stirring hopes that a vital key.to cancer development and progression may have been unmasked. .Julia Y. Ljubimova, M.D., Ph.D., a cancer researcher in the...Fully Endoscopic Brain Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
.LOS ANGELES (October 23, 1998) - A fully endoscopic procedure now available at.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Skull Base Institute is resulting in minimally.invasive, highly successful brain surgery for patients with pituitary tumors and.other skull base disorders. .According to Hrayr Shahinian, M.D., director of the Skull Base Institute, the.new procedure utilizes a tiny endoscope -- 4mm wide...Diabetes Drug And Accutane Block Breast Cancer Cell Growth, Cedars-Sinai Researchers Find
.LOS ANGELES (July 21, 1998) -- Breast cancer cells exposed to a diabetes drug.and the Vitamin A compound Accutane stopped multiplying and died on cue in.laboratory and animal studies conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,.researchers reported today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of.Science. . .Troglitazone, an antidiabetes drug, and Accutane, a Vitamin A compound.... Columbia, Mount Sinai Scientists Find Region That Controls Language.Identical In Both Species; Chimps May Use Gestures To Communicate . . Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University and.the National Institutes of Health have found that a region of the brain thought.to control language is proportionately the same size in humans and chimpanzees,.disproving a theor...