Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for Dec. 2004
MEDICAL TIP SHEET DECEMBER 2004 - To pursue any of these story ideas, please call Glenda Collins at 310-423-2103. Thank you....... ...Although spinal fusion is a common treatment for low back pain caused by degenerative disc disease, it limits the range of motion in the spine and may cause extra wear and tear on surrounding spinal discs. That's just one of the reasons that Cedars-Sinai is explor...Cedars-Sinai October 2004 medical tipsheet
...Women who are expecting a baby should be considered high priority during this season when the Flu vaccine is in short supply, and should seek an influenza vaccine as soon as possible. Influenza vaccines do not have adverse effects on fetuses, and they have been shown to dramatically decrease health risks for mothers and their newborns, says Neil S. Silverman, M.D., a high-risk obstetrician wh...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for May 2004
...With diabetes, cholesterol levels and obesity all on the rise, even in women as young as in their 20s, Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz and the Women's Health Resource Center at Cedars-Sinai offer timely suggestions on 14 screenings and steps women can take to improve their own health. Screenings include blood pressure readings, cholesterol levels, weight, body fat percentages and glucose readings as...Cedars-Sinai receives full AAHRPP accreditation for all research involving human subjects
LOS ANGELES, May 3, 2004 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announces that it has been fully accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP), for all research involving the protection of patients. Cedars-Sinai is the only Medical Center in the state of California to be accredited by AAHRPP, a Washington, D.C., based non-profit organization that...Cedars-Sinai March medical tipsheet
HEART ATTACK 1-2-3's: WHAT TO DO DURING A HEART ATTACK... It's no secret that heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in America. Yet, when a heart attack strikes, most people don't know what to do, resulting in the loss of vitally important time time during which the heart becomes increasingly damaged. According to Prediman K. Shah, MD., Director of the Division of Cardiol...Cedars-Sinai researchers identify a gene that causes insulin resistance in Mexican Americans
(LOS ANGELES December 29, 2003) For over a decade, scientists have known that insulin resistance a syndrome where the body does not respond as well as it should to insulin is linked to the development of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome. In fact, one in four adult Americans has insulin resistance, with Mexican Americans having the highest pr...Medical geneticist at Cedars-Sinai awarded $8.5 million NIH research grant
LOS ANGELES, August 18, 2003 Medical geneticist and scientist, Jerome I. Rotter, M.D., has received an $8.5 million grant to further his search for the genes that contribute to heart disease in Mexican-American, African American, and Chinese populations within the U.S. Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and the largest killer in the United States. ... ...Dr. Rotter, Director...Cedars-Sinai researchers detail events that enable brain tumors to weaken immune system
LOS ANGELES CA (EMBARGOED until July 25, 2003) In an article appearing in a special issue of the Journal of Neuro-oncology, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute describe a complex cell-level process that allows malignant brain tumors to protect themselves by damaging the thymus, rapidly degrading the immune system. In a second article, Institute scien...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for July 2003
CARDIOLOGISTS ADVANCE SEARCH FOR ROUTINE VACCINE TO PREVENT HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES ... ...Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis. Measles, mumps, rubella. Atherosclerosis? Cedars-Sinai cardiologists and their colleagues in Sweden are leading a quest for a vaccine that one day could become part of routine childhood immunization programs. Instead of preventing infections, they hope to prevent heart att...Cedars-sinai surgery dept. implements innovative surgical training tool to reduce medical errors
LOS ANGELES, CA Mention Morbidity and Mortality Conference to most surgeons and watch flickers of painful memories play across their features. Many surgeons view these weekly hospital meetings where ones surgical errors are dissected before peers and superiors as humiliating ordeals where participants may spend more time defending their actions than learning from their mistakes. However, Ce...Cedars-Sinai researchers to present findings at Amerian College of Cardiology Scientific Meeting
LOS ANGELES Physicians and researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, will be presenting information on a wide variety of topics at the American College of Cardiologists (ACC) 51st Annual Scientific Session and the ACC Interventional Symposium in Atlanta from March 17 through 20. Topics include acute coronary syndromes, atrial fibrillation, imaging protocols, pregnancy and hea...Patients who need cardiac resynchronization therapy may be eligible for Cedars-Sinai clinical trials
LOS ANGELES (March 8, 2002) Patients who suffer from advanced congestive heart failure and heart rhythm abnormalities may qualify to participate in one of two research trials now underway at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.... ...One study is designed to determine whether certain patients who require an implantable defibrillator for life-threatening arrhythmias may enjoy a better quality of life and....LOS ANGELES (Feb. 27, 2001) -- Using technology that enables them to analyze 18,000 genes in a single experiment, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have identified four genes that may play a role in the development of certain types of malignant brain tumors. . .The research, reported in the February issue of the International Journal of Oncology,....LOS ANGELES (January 17, 2001) -- Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are now enrolling patients in a large multi-center clinical trial to determine whether two popular dietary supplements - glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate - reduce the knee pain associated with osteoarthritis (OA). The disease causes pain, deformity and enlargement of the joints and is diagnosed in almost twice as m....Seventh- and eighth-grade students from Los Angeles-area schools will look at brain cells through microscopes, dress up in surgical scrubs, and perform simulated brain surgery when they visit the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 26.. .The third annual Brainworks program will give students an opportunity to learn about science and anatomy w...'Handwriting challenged' doctors to take penmanship class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
. Physicians are notorious for bad handwriting. Reading some doctors' prescription orders has been likened to deciphering hieroglyphics or interpreting the Rosetta Stone. But though society once made light of their indiscernible scratches and scrawls, doctors' bad handwriting is no longer a laughing matter. According to Paul B. Hackmeyer, MD, Chief of the Medical Staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical....LOS ANGELES - Scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center today presented data from two separate studies--one in animals and the other in humans--that considered together suggest that a diet high in soybeans and other legumes during pregnancy and breastfeeding may have a subtle but long-term impact on the development of children.. .The information was presented in Washington, D.C., at the Third...Estrogen-driven gene activates human pituitary tumors, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researchers find
.LOS ANGELES - Estrogen stimulates a newly discovered oncogene in the pituitary gland, setting the stage for cell proliferation, a team of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researchers report in today's issue of the eminent scientific journal Nature Medicine.. ."It has been known for many years that estrogen causes the pituitary to become hypervascular -- during pregnancy, it doubles in size -- but th....LOS ANGELES (October 28, 1999) - Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are seeking women who experience "hot flushes" and other symptoms associated with the onset of menopause.. .The medical center's Center for Women's Health is one of about 17 sites nationwide conducting a clinical study of the ability of soy-based "phytoestrogens" to moderate the unpleasant symptoms many women experience....LOS ANGELES (Oct. 26, 1999)--The most advanced technology and procedures in the area of skull base surgery will be the focus of attention at the fourth annual Skull Base Surgery Symposium to be held at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nov. 4-6, 1999. Open to physicians and non-physicians, alike, the symposium will feature some of the world's most highly renowned experts in the area of skull base su...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Oct. 14
. PEOPLE MAGAZINE CORRESPONDENT, AGE 29, TO RUN MARATHON 17 MONTHS AFTER BRAIN.SURGERY TO REMOVE A PITUITARY TUMOR .Thanks to state-of-the-art technology and some of the most advanced capabilities.in the United States, brain surgery to remove pituitary tumors is now being done.fully endoscopically and with outstanding results. Ken Baker, the San Francisco.correspondent for PEOPLE Magazine, a fo...Cedars-Sinai pediatrician to receive award for his contributions to international child health
.LOS ANGELES (Oct. 5, 1999) -- Augusto Sola, M.D., director of Cedars-Sinai.Medical Center's Division of Neonatology, will be honored next week by the.American Academy of Pediatrics for his long-standing efforts to improve the.lives of newborns and infants throughout the world, particularly in under-served.areas of Central and South America.. .The E.H. Christopherson Lectureship recognizes an in....LOS ANGELES (Sept. 29, 1999) -- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was one of 12 U.S..medical centers participating in a study on Transmyocardial Revascularization.(TMR) -- a procedure designed to reduce severe angina in cardiac patients.unsuitable for angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery -- published in the New.England Journal of Medicine's Sept. 30 issue. Study results indicated.significant declin...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Sept. 21
. .Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has served.as the Los Angeles area's training and quality assurance center since the "The.First Trimester Maternal Serum Biochemistry and Fetal Ultrasound Nuchal.Translucency Screening Study," or BUN study, was started last year. Recently,.Rosalinde Snijders, Ph.D., a pioneer in first-trimester prenatal studies and a.consul...Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center adds new dimension in radiation treatment
.LOS ANGELES (Sept. 13, 1999) -- The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai.Medical Center has begun treating patients with a next-generation radiation.therapy system that allows physicians to "shape" radiation treatments.three-dimensionally to match irregularly contoured tumors.. .This gives radiation oncologists the ability to deliver a full dose of radiation.to the entire structure of a...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
.LOS ANGELES (Sept. 1, 1999) -- For many years, Los Angeles dentist and pastor William Bredberg was like most people diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse (MVP)-aware of this quite common and typically harmless cardiac condition, but unhampered by symptoms that might interfere with a normal lifestyle. As a dentist and MVP patient, he knew that a dose of oral antibiotics was often recommended duri......LOS ANGELES (August 27, 1999) -- Christopher R. Shackleton, M.D., an organ...transplant specialist known for his high rates of success, his involvement in...the establishment of transplantation programs and policies in Canada, and his...previous work in Southern California, has returned to Cedars-Sinai Medical...Center to assist in a major expansion of transplantation services.... ...Among hi...Cedars-Sinai is first site in California offering LDL apheresis to treat severehypercholesterolemia
.LOS ANGELES (August 27, 1999) -- For patients with extremely high LDL.cholesterol (also called "bad cholesterol") that does not respond to treatment,.Cedars-Sinai has become the first site in California to offer LDL apheresis, a.system approved for treatment by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this.year.. ."Its indications are limited to patients with severe hypercholesterolemia who.ha...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
.LOS ANGELES (August 23, 1999) -- A researcher well known for her contributions.in the field of first-trimester prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities.has become a research scholar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.. .While at King's College Hospital in London, England, Rosalinde Snijders, Ph.D.,.set up and coordinated a pilot study of a fir...Cedars-Sinai reports excellent outcomes for its cardiac surgery division
.LOS ANGELES (August 18, 1999) -- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's heart surgery.division - the only program of its kind in Southern California to be ranked.among U.S. News & World Report's top 50 in the nation - recently released its.1998 statistics and sixth annual report card. According to the data, the.division continues to have excellent outcomes despite the fact that it serves.the highest-ris....LOS ANGELES -- Emphasizing patient convenience and integrated.clinical, surgical and research components, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is.launching a unique and comprehensive pituitary center. What makes this center.unique is that, for the first time, it integrates under one roof Cedars-Sinai's.world-renowned pituitary disease treatment and research programs with some of.the most advanced and...Medical tip sheet from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
. One of the nation's top cardiologists available to discuss findings of study.related to medicare patients and high-volume hospitals. .If confirmed by subsequent studies, the results of a heart attack study reported.recently in the New England Journal of Medicine may lead to a re-examination of.paramedic transport policies, says Prediman K. Shah, M.D., Director of the.Division of Cardiology at....LOS ANGELES (June 7, 1999) -- A two-part series on heart disease -- focusing.particularly on the risks to Hispanic women -- written by Aliza A. Lifshitz,.M.D., an internist on the medical staff of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and.published in "La Opinion" was awarded a 1999 C. Everett Koop Media Award by the.American Heart Association (AHA) Western States Affiliate. The award for."Outstanding....A therapeutic approach that appears to significantly reduce the rejection risk.of transplanted organs is currently being studied in multi-center clinical.trials but already has been adopted as an effective tool by most major.transplant centers throughout the country.. .The therapy, infusion of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), appears to be.helpful in preventing rejection in difficult cases wh....LOS ANGELES (May 3, 1999) -- Two studies conducted by Augusto Sola, Director of.Neonatology, and Ruth and Harry Roman Chair of Neonatology at Cedars-Sinai.Medical Center, and his associates are being published and made available at the.Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco this week.. ."Tidal Volume Measurements in Neonates: Are They Reliable?" analyzes the.Pulmona....LOS ANGELES (April 28, 1999) - Los Angeles pharmacist Armando Figueroa was.running low on optimism and options when he learned about a revolutionary,.non-surgical investigational cardiac procedure available at Cedars-Sinai Medical.Center. Armando suffered from hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, also.known as IHSS (Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis), an overgrowth of.muscle on the....LOS ANGELES (Embargoed Until April 22, 1999) - A Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.neurologist and researcher into genetic neurological disorders will provide.details of recent findings related to spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) and.describe advances in determining the chromosomal location of a new.ataxia-related gene at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of.Neurology.. .Stefan-....LOS ANGELES (April 20, 1999) -- A potentially catastrophic complication of.transplantation that affects 10 to 15 percent of children who receive livers or.other donated organs can now be detected and treated early. . .Using a method of periodic testing devised by researchers at Cedars-Sinai.Medical Center, physicians can monitor the progress of young transplant.recipients to rapidly detect vir...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Now Offers Microwave Thermotherapy For Treatment Of Prostate Disease
.LOS ANGELES (April 13, 1999) - A new non-surgical treatment option that utilizes.microwave thermotherapy to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) -- the.common, non-cancerous condition of an enlarged prostate gland in older men -- is.now available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Cedars-Sinai is one of the first.facilities in Southern California to treat BPH non-surgically using the.Prostatro....LOS ANGELES (April 12, 1999) -- Uncovering the causes and, eventually, a "cure".for skeletal dysplasias -- a group of more than 200 disorders that cause dwarfism.- are the goals behind the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry at.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The registry is the world's largest referral center.for the diagnosis and management of skeletal dysplasias, which affect one in.5,000...