Cedars Sinai

B.J. Rimel, MD, has been named medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Clinical Trials Office.

Cedars-Sinai announced the addition of two new members to the department of cardiology at Smidt Heart Institute.

Disruptions in daily living arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have affected population health, productivity and chronic disease management for all, but in many ways, may have more acutely afflicted women.

In a Healio video exclusive, Ruchi Mathur, MD, of the Medically Associated Science and Technology Program at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, discussed how the aging process is associated with changes to the small intestinal microbiome.

The rate of hospitalization for hypertensive crisis increased in recent years, but the odds of death during hospitalization decreased and was similar for men and women, researchers reported.

Of more than 3,000 lung transplants performed in the U.S. from August 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021, 7% were performed to treat severe, irreversible lung damage caused by COVID-19, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Providers should closely monitor people with diabetes and other high-risk adults for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and consider multiple noninvasive tests to detect the presence of advanced fibrosis, according to a speaker.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hindfoot deformity in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease may be due to a combination of muscular imbalances and changes of the underlying bony deformity, according to results presented here.

Major League Soccer athletes who sustain a sports-related fifth metatarsal fracture return to sport at a high rate with low risk for refracture, according to a recent report.

Higher COVID-19 incidence correlated with significantly higher sudden cardiac arrest incidence and lower survival rates during the pandemic period in the U.S., according to findings presented at the hybrid Heart Rhythm 2021 meeting.