Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Flagging dementia patients for better hospital care

Cedars-Sinai investigators are using electronic health records to identify hospitalized patients likely to have dementia. The method they developed, detailed in a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics ...

Medications

Study suggests key to antipsychotic-drug–induced obesity

An increased concentration of the hormone leptin in fat cells is believed to be responsible for weight gain associated with antipsychotic drugs, according to research led by UT Southwestern Medical Center. The study, published ...

Surgery

Women more resistant to anesthetic than men, finds study

Sex hormones may contribute to increased anesthetic resistance in women compared with men, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. General anesthetics exert their hypnotic effects ...

Oncology & Cancer

Predicting lymphoma patients' treatment outcomes

Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have discovered a new way to predict whether a cancer of the immune system will recur in patients treated with a bone marrow transplant. Their study, published in the Journal of Clinical ...

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