July 02, 2025

Medical Oddities: Leprosy’s Old New World Secret

This week’s clinical grab bag: tea for gloom, ancient leprosy, smoggy fibrosis & power peeing.

Conexiant

June 30, 2025

Sentara Creates Advanced Cardiac Imaging Team

Sentara's robust cardiovascular program continues to grow in expertise and technological improvements. One of the most recent additions is the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Team (ACIT).

Sentara

June 27, 2025

Playing With His Whole Heart

In pursuing his lifelong passion for athletics, Collin Liberty has never let anything stand in his way. A soccer enthusiast from childhood, Liberty was determined to play the sport in college and then launch a professional soccer career.

Cedars-Sinai Pulse

June 25, 2025

Medical Oddities: Tomb Fungus, Cancer Hope?

Hot nights, healing skin, and ancient fungus: medicine’s weirdest wins this week.

Conexiant

June 11, 2025

Advancements in Robotic-Assisted Mitral Valve Surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

In October 2024, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, WashU Medicine division director of cardiothoracic surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, performed the hospital’s first robotic-assisted mitral valve surgery.

Barnes-Jewish

February 20, 2025

Medical Oddities: Sugar Sensors in the Heart?

Sugar sensors are found in the heart. Tea ingredient turned into hydrogel. Mind-reading is getting closer. And more.

Conexiant

November 06, 2023

Perinatal Palliative Care Team Offers Expectant Families an Expert, Earnest Layer of Guidance and Support

After a recent expansion of its pediatric palliative care program, Phoenix Children’s now offers customized, coordinated care to expectant parents who learn their baby has a serious congenital anomaly.

Phoenix Children's Medical Connection

March 21, 2024

Kawasaki Disease: Blocking Protein Improves Cardiac Effects, Investigators Report

A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators found that blocking a protein called interleukin-1-beta improved cardiac dysfunction and arrythmias in Kawasaki disease, a rare illness that affects children and causes their blood vessels to swell and become inflamed.

Cedars-Sinai Pulse

February 15, 2023

Renowned Cardiologist Honored for Medical Contributions in Heart Transplantation

Smidt Heart Institute’s Jon Kobashigawa, MD, to Receive Prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award From International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Cedars-Sinai Pulse