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2006 News Releases

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (and Eating Again) (December 28, 2006)

Therapy Modulates Highly Sensitized Immune System to Let Mother Give Kidney to Daughter (December 20, 2006)

Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-Law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade (December 18, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Neurosurgeon Keith Black to Chair New Department (December 18, 2006)

Researchers Indentify Genes That Allow Brain Cancer-Causing Stem Cells to Resist Treatment (December 14, 2006)

Options Improving for Patients with Acromegaly and Gigantism, says Endocrinology Expert (December 14, 2006)

Got The Holiday Blues? Cedars-Sinai Mental Health Expert Offers Tips for a Happier Holiday Season (December 1, 2006)

Gamma Knife Technology Now Available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, New Center Adds to Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Options (November 28, 2006)

It Can Be a Hard Day's Night for Weight-Watchers on the Late Shift (November 7, 2006)

Psychological Trauma Center Affiliated With Cedars-Sinai Receives Grant to Expand Services to Elementary Students in Venice (November 1, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Researchers on Multicenter Team Linking Gene Mutation to Crohn's Disease (October 26, 2006)

Study Shows That Targeted Antibiotics Lead to Prolonged Improvement in IBS Symptoms (October 17, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Director of Medical Genetics Institute Receives American Society of Human Genetics' Inaugural Leadership Award (October 10, 2006)

Gene Transfer Using Mutant Form of Good Choleserol Cuts Vascular Plaque and Inflammation (September 25, 2006)

Chair of Cedars-Sinai's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Named to Stem Cell Panel (September 21, 2006)

Canine Breast Cancer Survivor Comforts Cedars-Sinai Patients Facing the Same Disease (September 18, 2006)

Virtual Meeting Place Unites Patients Confronting Brain Tumors and Neurosurgical Disorders (September 18, 2006)

Combined Therapies May Boost Immune Response and Long-Term Protection Against Brain Tumors (September 1, 2006)

Sister, Can You Spare a Million? Study Says Chest Pain Toll in Women is More Than Physicial (August 30, 2006)

Obesity Leads to More Aggressive Ovarian Cancer, Cedars-Sinai Research Shows (August 28, 2006)

New Objective Criteria Improve Pet Scan Reliability in Detecting Breast Cancer Metastasis (August 21, 2006)

First Study to Show How Immune Cells "Speak" to Each Other In Vivo (August 21, 2006)

Women Encouraged to Learn Their Family Health History During Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month in September (August 21, 2006)

For College Student, Video-Assisted Lung Surgery Treats Infection, Leaving Only Tiny Scars (August 18, 2006)

Lesser-Invasive Techniques Shrink Rehabilitation Period in Joint Replacement Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (August 18, 2006)

Prostate Cancer Patients Sought for Database as Part of Joint Effort at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Inglewood (August 11, 2006)

Back to School Safety: Avoiding Backpack Injury (August 10, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Researchers Publish First Large-Scale Study Addressing Augmentation Treatment for Resistant Major Depressive Disorder; Results Offer New Hope for the Chronically Depressed (August 4, 2006)

Barry D. Pressman, MD, FACR Appointed to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee - 2007 (August 2, 2006)

Director of Cedars-Sinai's Foot and Ankle Center Says that Options Abound to Treat Chronic Foot Pain (August 2, 2006)

Synthetic Version of Scorpion Venom Delivers Radioactive Iodine to Malignant Brain Tumors (July 28, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Supercomputer Ranked Among World's Most Powerful (July 25, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Launches New International Stem Cell Research Institute (July 21, 2006)

Weight Loss Surgeries Changing Lives at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (July 18, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai International Stem Cell Research Institute Opens: Goal Is to Expedite Research from Bench to Bedside (July 17, 2006)

Exercise Instructor Back on the Job Five Days after Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery (July 12, 2006)

Fit, Slim, Nonsmoker, Vegetarian and Just 39 Years Old - Mother of Two's Undiagnosed Heart Disease Could Have Cost Her Life (July 8, 2006)

Cutting-Edge Research Focus of Fourth Annual Meeting of the Androgen Excess Society June 23 in Boston (June 1, 2006)

Transplant Specialist and Policy Maker Andrew S. Klein Receives Endowed Chair (June 1, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Receives Award from American Stroke Association for Stroke Patient Care (May 25, 2006)

New, Advanced Surgical Simulation Lab Gives Hand-on Experience to Improve Patient Safety (May 24, 2006)

Immune Signals Given by Variations of a Single Gene Are Associated with Increased Severity of Crohn's Disease, Particularly in Ashkenazi Jews (May 22, 2006)

Article Describes New Marker of Key Retinal Cells, Therapy to Slow Abnormal Vessel Growth (May 19, 2006)

Online Liver Transplant Group Offers Support Regardless of Health, Schedule or Distance (May 18, 2006)

Confined to Bed but Not Constrained in Spirit, Patients Find Peace in a "Traveling Torah" (May 5, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Women's Heart Program Provides Innovative Diagnostic Test for Microvascular Disease (May 1, 2006)

Combining Endoscopic and Computer Technologies May Improve Safety, Accuracy and Efficiency of Complex Spinal Surgery (April 27, 2006)

Parents and Brother Rally to "Bring Back" 20-Year-Old Suffering Brain Injury in Car Crash (April 18, 2006)

Young Woman Awaiting Heart-Liver Transplant Finds Comfort in Family, Friends and Favorite Pets (April 17, 2006)

Treatment for Deadly Brain Tumors and Infections Discovered by Researchers at Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (March 22, 2006)

Potential Prostate Cancer Treatment Improvements Discovered by Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (March 20, 2006)

Pepper Component Hot Enough to Trigger Suicide in Prostate Cancer Cells (March 15, 2006)

Experts at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Expect Lung Transplant Survival Rates to Continue to Trend Upward (March 10, 2006)

Marrow-Derived Stem Cells Deliver New Cytokine to Kill Brain Tumor Cells, Offer Protection (March 1, 2006)

Experimental Heartpod System Implanted in First L.A. Patient, Being Evaluated in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure (March 1, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Physicians Elect Paul A. Silka, MD as New Chief of Staff (February 28, 2006)

Study Ties New Cell-Death Mechanism to Developmental and Degenerative Brain Disorders (February 26, 2006)

Study Finds Treatment of Severe Coronary Artery Disease with Medication-Releasing Stents a Viable Alternative to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (February 23, 2006)

Study Shows Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery Has Low Risk with Same Results as Open Surgery (February 3, 2006)

Researchers Break Chain of Biochemical Events that Brain Cancer Cells Use to Evade Therapy (February 3, 2006)

Surgical Procedure Is an Additional Tool for Some Cases of Treatment-Resistant Depression (February 3, 2006)

150 Students to Get Hands-on Learning at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute (February 2, 2006)

Unique Vascular Dysfunction in Women's Heart Disease Described in Major Journal Supplement (February 1, 2006)

Cedars-Sinai's New Saperstein Critical Care Tower Open (January 30, 2006)

Specialist and Innovator in Minimally Invasive Procedures Named to Administrative Posts (January 30, 2006)

Many Parents Unaware of RSV: Cedars-Sinai Neonatologist and Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist Offer Tips on this Winter-Borne Virus (January 9, 2006)

Neurosurgeon Adam Mamelak Brings Expertise in Pituitary Surgery, Epilepsy, Tumor Research (January 7, 2006)