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Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s Blood and Marrow Transplant Patients Experience Superior Outcomes
Allogeneic transplants use blood stem cells from donors’ bone marrow to treat patients with blood and bone marrow diseases. The Cedars-Sinai team performs more than 40 such transplants each year.Cedars-Sinai Study Details Workings of Short-Term Memory
Investigators Identify a Group of Cells That Help Coordinate the Brain’s Focus and Storage Functions for Short-Term Information RetentionA High-Risk Pregnancy Lifeline
For more than a decade, the High-Risk Perinatal Program has been serving women who need multidisciplinary care during pregnancy. Some are women who have complex health histories, such as those who have had organ transplants, heart defects or cancers. In other cases, they’re moms who encounter a complication due to their pregnancy or whose developing fetus requires specialized care.A Clinic for Ovarian Cancer ‘Previvors’
Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s One-Stop Option Helps BRCA1- and BRCA2-Positive Patients Manage Fertility, RiskCedars-Sinai Joins Community Partners to Reduce Black Maternal Health Gap
Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely than white women to die, or become seriously ill, from pregnancy-related complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those disparities remain regardless of income or levels of education. Studies point to a kaleidoscope of factors contributing to the dangerous inequity, including racism, barriers to appropriate care, social and economic factors, and chronic stress. Addressing the complexity of causes behind poor health outcomes for Black mothers requires commitment, investment and innovation to produce meaningful, measurable change.Exploring Data Equity to Address Sexual Health Disparities
Asian women in the U.S. have long faced “othering” due to xenophobic stereotypes while also bearing a legacy of deep-rooted shame around women’s health.Boosting the Brain’s Control of Prosthetic Devices
Cedars-Sinai Investigators Show That Tapping the Cerebellum, a Structure in the Back of the Brain, Could Improve Patients’ Control Over Devices Such as Robotic LimbsKawasaki Disease: Blocking Protein Improves Cardiac Effects, Investigators Report
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 become inflamed.Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Opens Angelman Syndrome Clinic
Children With the Rare Disease Can See a Team of Specialists in One VisitPediatric Cancer Expert Explains New Options for Children With Sarcomas
Q&A With Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MSPatients Diagnosed With New-Onset, Persistent AFib Are More Likely to Have These Risk Factors
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 at Cedars-Sinai, published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.New Studies: AI Captures Electrocardiogram Patterns That Could Signal a Future Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Two new studies by Cedars-Sinai investigators support using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict sudden cardiac arrest—a health emergency that in 90% of cases leads to death within minutes.