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Dr. David L. Rimoin, a medical geneticist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center who pioneered studies of dwarfism and other skeletal abnormalities, died Sunday at the Los Angeles hospital. He was 75 and had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic ...  

Ilana Cass, MD, vice-chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai and a prominent specialist in gynecologic cancers, is one of only 50 physicians internationally accepted to a program that prepares exceptional women faculty for senior leadership positions at academic health centers. She is the first candidate from Cedars-Sinai to be nominated and the first accepted to the year-long Hedwig van Ameringen Executive...  

Elton John was hospitalized Wednesday for a "serious" respiratory infection, the singer's rep tells Us Weekly. John was admitted to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, but is reportedly doing better and recovering from the ...  

Cedars-Sinai has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's first approval for an obstetric anesthesiology fellowship program. The year-long fellowship provides advanced experience and training in all aspects of obstetric anesthesiology including research, administration and clinical management of both normal and high-risk patients.  

Newswise — LOS ANGELES – Cedars-Sinai experts are available to comment on a newly-released Centers for Disease Control recommendation that Baby Boomers be screened for Hepatitis C. Proactive screening is an important step to treating the disease early ...  

Cedars-Sinai Implants 1st SynCardia Total Artificial Heart to Bridge Mother of ...Sacramento Bee... May 10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- SynCardia Systems, Inc. (www.syncardia.com), manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, said today that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles ...1st SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Implanted at Cedars-Sinai to Bridge ...San Francisco...  

Babak Larian, MD, who had been the director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai, has been appointed the Chief of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery at the Medical Center. He began the position on January 1, 2012 and will hold the position ...  

Despite these obstacles, the blood donor facility at Cedars-Sinai is aligned with two very dynamic thoroughbreds, Recruitment Coordinators Nina Vinick and Veronika Bauer, who determinedly navigate the rough terrain of Los Angeles with great success.  

Obama basks again in Hollywood glory, but at cost?Albany Times Union8, 2011 file photo originally released by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, actor James Brolin, left, and his wife Barbra Streisand pose at the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.  

Sandra Rome, RN, MN, AOCN, a clinical nurse specialist in hematology and oncology at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UCLA School of Nursing.  

Jessica Simpson just gave birth to little Maxwell Drew Johnson in a suite that includes salon services, a personal assistant and flatscreen TVs! This little girl is already living the high life! Jessica Simpson definitely beats Beyonce for ...  

NBC LA just dropped the hottest expose of 2012 (besides maybe the "teen Twitter party" epidemic in the Hills): a possible baby boom resulting from the 405 shutdown last summer. Otherwise known as Carmageddon, or the apocalyptic traffic forecast that never ...  

TheaterMania.comPHOTO FLASH: Geena Davis, Henry Winkler and More at Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai ...TheaterMania.comAmong the other attendees at the luncheon were Jami Gertz, Wendy Goldberg, Dame Barbara Hay, and Barbara Lazaroff. Proceeds from the luncheon benefited the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Dame Barbara Hay , Henry Winkler , Sarah Brown ...and more »  

Famed Egyptian Mummy Doctor Named for Memorial Heart & Vascular InstituteLBPOST.comPostgraduate training included an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and fellowships in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.  

Final results from MSD's VICTRELIS plus PEGINTRON Phase III trial on HCV ...News-Medical.net... are commonly associated with the development of anaemia, and this effect is further increased with the addition of boceprevir," said Fred Poordad, MD, chief of hepatology and liver transplantation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.and more »