Cedars Sinai

Marc Botnick, MD, has been appointed regional medical director for radiation oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer.

Minimally invasive procedures have flourished within orthopedic surgery during the past few decades as surgeons have continually sought out faster recovery times and improved clinical outcomes.

Polycystic ovary syndrome, a common endocrine disorder affecting reproductive-age women, is linked to cardiometabolic disorders that are risk factors for CVD. But the degree of CVD risk in women with polycystic ovary syndrome is still underdetermined.

Michael Bowdish, MD, MS, has been appointed vice chair of the department of cardiac surgery at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, according to a press release.

Compared with transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, the Total Posterior Spine System by Premia Spine is a more cost-effective option for treatment of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis and stenosis, according to results.

CHICAGO — A new combination therapy benefitted certain patients with immunotherapy-resistant advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to randomized phase 2 study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

A survey of U.S. cardiologists, CV team members and fellows in training revealed few ever received cardio-obstetrics didactics during training and many institutions lacked access to dedicated cardio-obstetrics teams, researchers reported.

CVD has been the leading cause of death among Americans for the past decade, CDC data indicate, and this trend will likely continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.

Postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy have a duodenal microbiome similar to younger women and a lower abundance of taxaassociated with cardiovascular disease risk compared with those not taking HT, researchers reported.

Cedars-Sinai announced its department of medicine has created a new division to examine applications of artificial intelligence in medicine, headed by Sumeet S. Chugh, MD.