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Moderate red wine drinking may help cut women's breast cancer ri...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 01/04/2012 - 23:00

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Drinking red wine in moderation may reduce one of the risk factors for breast cancer, providing a natural weapon to combat a major cause of death among US women, new research from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows.


 

NYCHA looking to find apartment for Octavio Estevez,  homeless ...

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Thu, 12/22/2011 - 05:00

The New York City Housing Authority is working to find an apartment for a homeless Uptown dad who needs a kidney transplant.

Octavio Estevez, who lives in a Bronx homeless shelter, was kept off Mount Sinai Medical Center’s kidney transplant waiting list because he didn’t have permanent housing.


 

Toxins in plastics, meats can harm child health: experts

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Mon, 12/05/2011 - 21:24

Exposure to toxins found in everyday items can wreak havoc on children’s hormonal systems and set them up for a lifetime of poor health, child health experts from Mount Sinai Medical Center said Monday.


 

Cedars-Sinai to hold first annual conference on stem cell therap...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 04/27/2011 - 22:00

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Experts from stem cell programs at respected research centers around the country will present information at an April 30 conference on stem cell therapy for neurological disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.


 

New 'nanodrug' breaks down barriers to attack breast cancer cell...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 03/28/2011 - 22:00

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Unlike other drugs that target cancer cells from the outside with minimal effect, this "transport vehicle" carries multiple drugs that spare healthy cells, accumulate in tumor cells and strike cancer-specific molecular targets inside.


 

Elizabeth Taylor Dies of Heart Failure

WebMD Health  Wed, 03/23/2011 - 09:25

Actress Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure today in Los Angeles, with her children at her side.

She was 79 years old and had been in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for several weeks before her death.


 

Cedars-Sinai's mobile medical clinics receive grant from George ...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 03/09/2011 - 23:00

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Thanks to a grant from the George Hoag Family Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's COACH for Kids and Their Families program will be able to expand health-care services to more homeless children living in transitional shelters in Greater Los Angeles.


 

Drug now used to treat erectile dysfuncton may enhance delivery ...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Thu, 05/06/2010 - 22:00

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) New research by scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute suggests that a drug currently approved to treat erectile dysfunction may significantly enhance the delivery of the anti-cancer drug Herceptin to certain hard-to-treat brain tumors.

The research, published in the journal PLoS ONE, could help doctors improve treatments for lung and breast cancers that have metastasized to the brain.


 

Investigations, Indictments and Guilty Pleas at Famous US Teachi...

Health Care Renewal  Thu, 04/29/2010 - 16:29

Some of the US most prestigious academic medical centers have been receiving unusual scrutiny lately.

Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York - Presbyterian Hospital.

As reported first by the Wall Street Journal,