Los Angeles (June 8, 2021)
IBDs, including Crohn s disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic conditions that occur when the intestinal immune system becomes overreactive, causing chronic diarrhea and other digestive symptoms. In a published survey at the beginning of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, 70% of IBD patients reported concern about side effects from the vaccines. What we ve learned is that if you have IBD, the side effects you re likely to experience after a vaccine are no different than they would be for anyone else, said Gil Melmed, MD, corresponding author of the study and director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Research at Cedars-Sinai. If you re being treated with advanced therapies such as biologics, these side effects might even be milder. So, don t let that be a reason that you re not getting vaccinated.
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IMAGE: A surgical procedure advanced and studied by vascular neurosurgeons at Cedars-Sinai dramatically reduced the rate of recurrent strokes among patients with atherosclerotic disease, a new study shows. view more
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LOS ANGELES A surgical procedure advanced and studied by vascular neurosurgeons at Cedars-Sinai dramatically reduced the rate of recurrent strokes among patients with atherosclerotic disease, a new study shows.
Atherosclerotic disease, also known as hardening of the arteries, is a buildup of plaque that narrows the arteries leading to the brain. The condition is known to increase patients risk of having a series of strokes.
Exciting new results from a Phase II clinical trial conducted at Cedars-Sinai demonstrated that a new procedure reduced recurrent stroke rates from 37% to 10.7%. Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis, or EDAS for short, is a new procedure that was used and recently published in the journal
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LOS ANGELES (Feb. 3, 2021) For the first time in humans, investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified the neurons responsible for canceling planned behaviors or actions a highly adaptive skill that when lost, can lead to unwanted movements.
Known as stop signal neurons, these neurons are critical in powering someone to stop or abort an action they have already put in process. We have all had the experience of sitting at a traffic stop and starting to press the gas pedal but then realizing that the light is still red and quickly pressing the brake again, said Ueli Rutishauser, PhD, professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai and senior author of the study published online in the peer-reviewed journal