A cardiologist and prolific researcher, Dr. Cheng plans to grow clinical, research and educational programs for the Smidt Heart Institute.

December 5 Medical News Summary

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When professional soccer player Savy King talks about her on-field collapse, it is with the same calm demeanor that helped her survive. King didn’t feel like herself while playing in a National Women’...

Experts to Study Whether Open-Heart Surgery or Minimally Invasive Procedure Produces Better Patient Outcomes for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease.

Cedars-Sinai investigators are aiming to transform stem cells into the first heart and brain organoids to be created in space. Their experiments will travel aboard a mission to the International Space...

The Department of Cardiac Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has earned a prestigious rating achieved by the top heart surgery programs in the U.S.The three-star quality rating from ...

Lall et al. differentiate iPSCs from young-onset, sporadic ALS patients into spinal cord motor neurons and co-culture them with brain microvascular endothelial-like cells in a microfluidic organ-chip system. Transcriptomics, proteomics, and single-nuclei RNA sequencing identify distinct motor neuron subpopulations with ALS-specific dysregulation in neurofilaments, glutamatergic, and synaptic signaling.

Martha Gulati, MD, explains why Lp(a) testing should be a standard of care.

ABC News' Matt Gutman investigates the growing health concerns for first responders who rushed to fight raging wildfires in Los Angeles, some even drawing a parallel to the medical aftermath of 9/11.

They will always be the first.The class of 2025 of Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University are the trailblazing biomedical students who made Cedars-Sinai history earlier this month when they became th...

A new study conducted at Cedars-Sinai reveals how the cholesterol-reducing drug evolocumab prevents heart attacks in people with coronary artery disease—a leading cause of death in the United States.C...

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Sumeet Chugh, MD, whose research into sudden cardiac arrest has led to novel methods of predicting the usually fatal condition, has been promoted to vice dean and chief artificial intelligence health ...

There's so much at stake—for everyone.

Raj Makkar, MD, Cedars-Sinai, explains the late-breaking data from the Align-AR trial on the first 500 patients treated for aortic regurgitation using the Jena Valve TAVR device.