http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Working to improve treatment and survivorship outcomes, the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute has opened a Phase III clinical trial of targeted radiation for patients with intestinal carcinoid cancer that has spread beyond the intestine. Cedars-Sinai is the only facility in the western U.S. offering this clinical trial. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-cedars-sinai-first-of-its-kind-trial-western-metastatic.html Cancer Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:41:28 EST news289820466 (Medical Xpress)—A research team jointly led by scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Los Angeles, have enhanced a device they developed to identify and "grab" circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, that break away from cancers and enter the blood, often leading to the spread of cancer to other parts of the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-diagnostic-technology-individualized-treatments-prostate.html Cancer Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:14:04 EST news284109234 How much a person eats may be only one of many factors that determines weight gain. A recent Cedars-Sinai study suggests that a breath test profile of microorganisms inhabiting the gut may be able to tell doctors how susceptible a person is to developing obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-obesity-linked-microorganisms-gut.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:02 EST news283456576 Two patients freed from severe to disabling effects of dystonia through deep brain stimulation therapy continued to have symptom relief for months after their devices accidentally were fully or partly turned off, according to a report published online Feb. 11 in the journal Movement Disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dystonia-cases-deep-brain-therapy.html Neuroscience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:03:19 EST news279910984 An international multicenter clinical trial led by a Cedars-Sinai neurologist on the combination of brain cooling and "clot-busting" drug therapy after stroke has received Food and Drug Administration approval to expand from 50 patients to 400. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain-cooling-clot-busting-drug-therapy.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:38:49 EST news279365924 Injecting specialized cardiac stem cells into a patient's heart rebuilds healthy tissue after a heart attack, but where do the new cells come from and how are they transformed into functional muscle? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-stem-cells-boost-heart-natural.html Medical research Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:05:37 EST news278762715 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene (Tbx18)–a major step forward in the decade-long search for a biological therapy to correct erratic and failing heartbeats. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-ordinary-heart-cells-biological-pacemakers.html Medical research Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:00:16 EST news274884285 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found in an initial clinical trial that a drug typically prescribed for erectile dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension restores blood flow to oxygen-starved muscles in patients with a type of muscular dystrophy that affects males, typically starting in childhood or adolescence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-common-drug-reverses-effect-becker.html Medical research Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:42:41 EST news273336154 Surgical teams at Cedars-Sinai have reduced surgical site infections by more than 60 percent for patients who undergo colorectal procedures by introducing evidence-based protocols that are easy to follow and relatively low in cost. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-surgical-site-infections-colorectal-surgery.html Surgery Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:55 EST news273327515 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found that an experimental compound may help stem the debilitating effects of muscular dystrophy by restoring normal blood flow to muscles affected by the genetic disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-preclinical-muscular-dystrophy.html Medical research Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:06:22 EST news271591571 Researchers at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have found that a blood vessel-building gene boosts the ability of human bone marrow stem cells to sustain pancreatic recovery in a laboratory mouse model of insulin-dependent diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bone-marrow-stem-cell-therapy.html Medical research Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:08:47 EST news268416504 Latinos are more likely to store fat in the pancreas and are less able to compensate by excreting additional insulin, a Cedars-Sinai study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-latinos-vulnerable-fatty-pancreas-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:17:49 EST news266581039 LOS ANGELES (Embargoed until 10 a.m. EDT on Aug. 24, 2012) – When aggressive, malignant tumors appear in more than one location in the brain, patient survival tends to be significantly shorter than when the disease starts as a single tumor, even though patients in both groups undergo virtually identical treatments, according to research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Research Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-survival-statistics-hard-malignant-brain.html Neuroscience Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:20:01 EST news265022803 An experimental immune-based therapy more than doubled median survival of patients diagnosed with the most aggressive malignant brain tumor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researchers reported in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, published online Aug. 3. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-vaccine-malignant-brain-cancer-antigens.html Immunology Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:08:38 EST news264247704 Cedars-Sinai researchers have linked Kawasaki Disease, a serious childhood illness that causes inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body, with early-onset and accelerated atherosclerosis, a leading cause of heart disease in adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-link-kawasaki-disease-childhood-adult.html Cardiology Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:21:59 EST news261760906