2006 News Releases

• Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (and Eating Again) (December 28, 2006)

• Therapy Modulates Highly Sensitized Immune System to Let Mother Give Kidney to Daughter (December 20, 2006)

• Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-Law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade (December 18, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Neurosurgeon Keith Black to Chair New Department (December 18, 2006)

• Researchers Identify Genes That Allow Brain Cancer-Causing Stem Cells to Resist Treatment (December 14, 2006)

• Options Improving for Patients with Acromegaly and Gigantism, says Endocrinology Expert (December 14, 2006)

• Got The Holiday Blues? Cedars-Sinai Mental Health Expert Offers Tips for a Happier Holiday Season (December 1, 2006)

• Gamma Knife Technology Now Available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, New Center Adds to Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Options (November 28, 2006)

• It Can Be a Hard Day's Night for Weight-Watchers on the Late Shift (November 7, 2006)

• Psychological Trauma Center Affiliated With Cedars-Sinai Receives Grant to Expand Services to Elementary Students in Venice (November 1, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Researchers on Multicenter Team Linking Gene Mutation to Crohn's Disease (October 26, 2006)

• Study Shows That Targeted Antibiotics Lead to Prolonged Improvement in IBS Symptoms (October 17, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Director of Medical Genetics Institute Receives American Society of Human Genetics' Inaugural Leadership Award (October 10, 2006)

• Gene Transfer Using Mutant Form of Good Choleserol Cuts Vascular Plaque and Inflammation (September 25, 2006)

• Chair of Cedars-Sinai's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Named to Stem Cell Panel (September 21, 2006)

• Canine Breast Cancer Survivor Comforts Cedars-Sinai Patients Facing the Same Disease (September 18, 2006)

• Virtual Meeting Place Unites Patients Confronting Brain Tumors and Neurosurgical Disorders (September 18, 2006)

• Combined Therapies May Boost Immune Response and Long-Term Protection Against Brain Tumors (September 1, 2006)

• Sister, Can You Spare a Million? Study Says Chest Pain Toll in Women is More Than Physicial (August 30, 2006)

• Obesity Leads to More Aggressive Ovarian Cancer, Cedars-Sinai Research Shows (August 28, 2006)

• New Objective Criteria Improve Pet Scan Reliability in Detecting Breast Cancer Metastasis (August 21, 2006)

• First Study to Show How Immune Cells "Speak" to Each Other In Vivo (August 21, 2006)

• Women Encouraged to Learn Their Family Health History During Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month in September (August 21, 2006)

• For College Student, Video-Assisted Lung Surgery Treats Infection, Leaving Only Tiny Scars (August 18, 2006)

• Lesser-Invasive Techniques Shrink Rehabilitation Period in Joint Replacement Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (August 18, 2006)

• Prostate Cancer Patients Sought for Database as Part of Joint Effort at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Inglewood (August 11, 2006)

• Back to School Safety: Avoiding Backpack Injury (August 10, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Researchers Publish First Large-Scale Study Addressing Augmentation Treatment for Resistant Major Depressive Disorder; Results Offer New Hope for the Chronically Depressed (August 4, 2006)

• Barry D. Pressman, MD, FACR Appointed to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee - 2007 (August 2, 2006)

• Director of Cedars-Sinai's Foot and Ankle Center Says that Options Abound to Treat Chronic Foot Pain (August 2, 2006)

• Synthetic Version of Scorpion Venom Delivers Radioactive Iodine to Malignant Brain Tumors (July 28, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Supercomputer Ranked Among World's Most Powerful (July 25, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Launches New International Stem Cell Research Institute (July 21, 2006)

• Weight Loss Surgeries Changing Lives at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (July 18, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai International Stem Cell Research Institute Opens: Goal Is to Expedite Research from Bench to Bedside (July 17, 2006)

• Exercise Instructor Back on the Job Five Days after Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery (July 12, 2006)

• Fit, Slim, Nonsmoker, Vegetarian and Just 39 Years Old - Mother of Two's Undiagnosed Heart Disease Could Have Cost Her Life (July 8, 2006)

• Cutting-Edge Research Focus of Fourth Annual Meeting of the Androgen Excess Society June 23 in Boston (June 1, 2006)

• Transplant Specialist and Policy Maker Andrew S. Klein Receives Endowed Chair (June 1, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Receives Award from American Stroke Association for Stroke Patient Care (May 25, 2006)

• New, Advanced Surgical Simulation Lab Gives Hand-on Experience to Improve Patient Safety (May 24, 2006)

• Immune Signals Given by Variations of a Single Gene Are Associated with Increased Severity of Crohn's Disease, Particularly in Ashkenazi Jews (May 22, 2006)

• Article Describes New Marker of Key Retinal Cells, Therapy to Slow Abnormal Vessel Growth (May 19, 2006)

• Online Liver Transplant Group Offers Support Regardless of Health, Schedule or Distance (May 18, 2006)

• Confined to Bed but Not Constrained in Spirit, Patients Find Peace in a "Traveling Torah" (May 5, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Women's Heart Program Provides Innovative Diagnostic Test for Microvascular Disease (May 1, 2006)

• Combining Endoscopic and Computer Technologies May Improve Safety, Accuracy and Efficiency of Complex Spinal Surgery (April 27, 2006)

• Parents and Brother Rally to "Bring Back" 20-Year-Old Suffering Brain Injury in Car Crash (April 18, 2006)

• Young Woman Awaiting Heart-Liver Transplant Finds Comfort in Family, Friends and Favorite Pets (April 17, 2006)

• Treatment for Deadly Brain Tumors and Infections Discovered by Researchers at Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (March 22, 2006)

• Potential Prostate Cancer Treatment Improvements Discovered by Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (March 20, 2006)

• Pepper Component Hot Enough to Trigger Suicide in Prostate Cancer Cells (March 15, 2006)

• Experts at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Expect Lung Transplant Survival Rates to Continue to Trend Upward (March 10, 2006)

• Marrow-Derived Stem Cells Deliver New Cytokine to Kill Brain Tumor Cells, Offer Protection (March 1, 2006)

• Experimental Heartpod System Implanted in First L.A. Patient, Being Evaluated in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure (March 1, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Physicians Elect Paul A. Silka, MD as New Chief of Staff (February 28, 2006)

• Study Ties New Cell-Death Mechanism to Developmental and Degenerative Brain Disorders (February 26, 2006)

• Study Finds Treatment of Severe Coronary Artery Disease with Medication-Releasing Stents a Viable Alternative to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (February 23, 2006)

• Study Shows Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery Has Low Risk with Same Results as Open Surgery (February 3, 2006)

• Researchers Break Chain of Biochemical Events that Brain Cancer Cells Use to Evade Therapy (February 3, 2006)

• Surgical Procedure Is an Additional Tool for Some Cases of Treatment-Resistant Depression (February 3, 2006)

• 150 Students to Get Hands-on Learning at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute (February 2, 2006)

• Unique Vascular Dysfunction in Women's Heart Disease Described in Major Journal Supplement (February 1, 2006)

• Cedars-Sinai's New Saperstein Critical Care Tower Open (January 30, 2006)

• Specialist and Innovator in Minimally Invasive Procedures Named to Administrative Posts (January 30, 2006)

• Many Parents Unaware of RSV: Cedars-Sinai Neonatologist and Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist Offer Tips on this Winter-Borne Virus (January 9, 2006)

• Neurosurgeon Adam Mamelak Brings Expertise in Pituitary Surgery, Epilepsy, Tumor Research (January 7, 2006)