Cedars-Sinai researchers present new endocrine findings at 2 international conferences
... At The Endocrine Society meeting, Shlomo Melmed, M.D., director of the Burns and Allen Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and one of the worlds experts on human growth hormone and the pituitary gland, will be presenting The Year in Pituitary, an overview of new research in the field including innovative insights lin...Mount Sinai and YAI/NIPD Network join forces to further quality of care for people with autism
New York, NY The Seaver and New York Autism Center for Excellence at Mount Sinai School of Medicine announced today that it is entering into an affiliation with the YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities (YAI/NIPD) Network to offer enhanced programs and greater access to diagnostic services for children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). ...... Mount Sinai School of Me...Cedars-Sinai endocrine researchers to discuss gene that may be linked to polycystic ovary syndrome
... ... Women with PCOS have many small cysts on the periphery of the ovaries and suffer from symptoms that include me...New breakthrough treatment for spinal cancer patients at Mount Sinai
... "Hope is being given to patients with malignant and ultimately fatal spinal tumors where hope was never before available...Mount Sinai and EXACT Sciences announce study results on study stool DNA testing for colon cancer
New York, NY and Marlborough, MA - (December 13, 2006) -- Mount Sinai School of Medicine and EXACT Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAS) announced today the publication of results from a prospective, multi-center study of stool DNA testing. The study found that the test demonstrated an 88% sensitivity for colorectal cancer, and with equal detection across all stages of cancer, regardless of the c...Wiley to assume publication of Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
... Published continuously since 1934 by The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine is issued six times a year and features clinical articles from all medical disciplines. Wiley will re-launch the journal as Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translat...Mount Sinai researcher finds drinking water safe to drink
New York, NY, September 06, 2006 -- Are disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water harmful to an unborn fetus? According to a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology (available online September 5), a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health headed by David A. Savitz, Ph.D., Director of the Center of Excellence in Epidemiol...Obesity leads to more aggressive ovarian cancer, Cedars-Sinai research shows
... ... "This study is the first to identify weight as an independent factor in ovarian ca...The Mount Sinai Medical Center recognized for excellence in bariatric surgery
... Obesity is a serious epidemic in America. Over two thirds of Americans are overweight, a frightening number that continues to rise each year. Faced wit...Mount Sinai Global Health Center receives $1M grant
... ... Created in 2005 by David Muller, MD, Dean of Medical Edu...Mount Sinai School of Medicine receives prestigious AAMC Grant for Chronic Illness Care education
(New York, NY) The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) awarded Mount Sinai School of Medicine the Enhancing Education for Chronic Illness Care grant. The grant, totaling $125,000, is funded by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to stimulate the development and implementation of innovative approaches for educating medical students and resident physicians on the challenges and rewards of...Pauletta and Denzel Washington to present Cedars-Sinai neuroscience scholarships June 7
LOS ANGELES Two recipients of the 2006 Pauletta and Denzel Washington Family Gifted Scholars Program in Neuroscience will receive summer research scholarship awards Wednesday, June 7 at the James A. Foshay Learning Center, 3751 S. Harvard Blvd. in Los Angeles. ......Pauletta and Denzel Washington will present the scholarships after a presentation by Keith L. Black, M.D., director of Cedars-Sina...Mount Sinai launches combination therapy trial to treat Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
New York, NY - Mount Sinai School of Medicine is the Clinical Coordinating Center for the first study to assess the effectiveness of combining two FDA approved medications as initial treatment for people with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS), the study, known as CombiRx, wi...Cedars-Sinai researchers discover treatment for deadly brain tumors and infections
In a study published in the March 15 issue of The Journal of Immunology, researchers at Board of Governors' Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have developed a way to overcome immune privilege in the brain to eradicate potentially deadly brain tumors such as glioblastoma multiforme and other types of brain infections. ...... Brain tumors account for 85 to 90 perce...Potential prostate cancer treatment improvements discovered by researchers at Cedars-Sinai
In a study to be published in the April, 2006 issue of the British Journal of Urology International, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have shown that Raloxifene, a drug commonly used to treat osteoporosis, has a potential clinical benefit in treating men with prostate cancer. This study has implications for the approximately 35,000 men who will die this year of advanced prostate cancer...CNIC commits 5 million Euros to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Spanish Cardiovascular Research Center (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, commonly referred to as CNIC) today made a commitment in the amount of 5 million euros, which is nearly $6 million USD, to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The contribution will be used to fund the Valentin Fuster Laboratories, new research facilities at the Mount Sinai School of Medicin...Mount Sinai expands cutting-edge molecular testing
Today, Mount Sinai Hospital, announced that it has signed a three-year strategic alliance agreement with world-renowned diagnostic company Roche Diagnostics, to establish a Molecular Center of Excellence (MCOE). As a Roche designated MCOE, the Molecular Pathology Laboratory will offer physicians and patients the most advanced molecular diagnostics technologies such as Roche Diagnostics' patented...Cedars-Sinai researchers demonstrate a new way to switch therapeutic genes 'on' and 'off'
A gene therapy research team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has developed a new method of signaling therapeutic genes to turn "off" or "on," a mechanism that could enable scientists to fine-tune genetic- and stem cell-based therapies so that they are safer, more controllable and more effective. ...... Although other similar signaling systems have been developed, the Cedars-Sinai research is the f...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for December 2005
... According to experts, the highest incidence of household injuries occur at party times and during times of increased family activity. Regardless of the holiday you're celebrating, it's in your children's best interest for you to be aware of risks and more importantly, of how to prevent accidents. ...... ... Cardiology researchers at Cedars-S...Mount Sinai Researchers present findings on treatments for prostate and breast cancer
Researchers from the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Milton and Caroll Petrie Department of Urology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine are presenting findings from ten studies of prostate and breast cancer treatments at the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO), October 16-20, 2005, in Denver, Colorado. ... ...The research re...Cedars-Sinai's live donor liver transplant program receives 'unos-approved' designation
LOS ANGELES (July 7, 2005) Because need far outweighs the availability of organs for transplantation, transplant specialists are increasingly utilizing adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation, but the procedure includes significant risks to the healthy donor. ...... Now, to support quality assurance standards nationwide, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) the organization tha...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for June 2005
...A molecular change that takes place in the newly formed blood vessels of progressing brain tumors have now been documented in the most common type of breast cancer, as well. The molecular shift occurs in major proteins called laminins, important constituents of blood vessels. As tumors become increasingly invasive, the laminins normally found in blood vessels become altered in the blood vesse...Mount Sinai study shows Hispanics have worse lung cancer survival rate
In a national population-based study of 16,036 lung cancer patients, Hispanics with curable stage I lung cancer had poorer lung cancer specific survival rates, as well as worse all-cause mortality, than a much larger group of white persons. Study results will appear in the second issue for May 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...