Cedars-Sinai announced today a $10 million gift to establish the Bernard and Maxine Platzer Lynn Family Memory and Healthy Aging Program in the Department of Neurology. The program will broaden the scope of age-related care at Cedars-Sinai--with a focus on healthy aging, patient independence, care coordination, and brain health.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have validated a new antibody test to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS), a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord. Nearly 1 million people in the U.S. are affected by MS, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. An antibody typically consists of two immunoglobulin heavy chains and two light chains. There are two types of light chains: kappa and lambda. The validated test measures kappa immunoglobulin free…

Imagine being able to record yourself reading and then having your clinician use those recordings to screen for various diseases, even from thousands of miles away. This technology may sound like science fiction, but Mayo Clinic researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and test what the voice can reveal about a patient's heart health. In a recent study, the research team used an AI trained for specific vocal biomarkers to accurately predict which…

Earthquakes are famously impossible to predict, and have been the cause of some of the most devastating events in human history. But could we learn more about these natural disasters by tracking them backwards through time? 

Timothy and Ann Pietsch pictured with Dr Emily Reeve. Up to 93 per cent of people living with dementia have experienced at least one medicine-related problem, leading to potentially harmful effects, but how do we improve these odds? A multi-step project including nationwide surveys and a workshop coordinated by the University of South Australia will today propose a solution – in the form of the...

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai have created an artificial intelligence-enabled tool that may make it easier to predict if a person will have a heart attack.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Fewer than 1 in 1,000 people who have been vaccinated or previously infected with COVID-19 were hospitalized with a new breakthrough infection, Mayo Clinic research finds. The study, which is published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, supports previous studies that show vaccination is the best way to prevent severe COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and death. "In the general primary care patient population, those who have been vaccinated have very low risk of subsequent hospitalization…

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― In a newly published study appearing in Genetics in Medicine, investigators from Mayo Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine found that targeted genomic information can play an important role in drug prescribing practices. The results from the "Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Time: Using Genomic Data to Individualize Treatment" (RIGHT 10K) study strongly suggest that preemptive testing could benefit nearly every patient at some point, particularly when the testing extends beyond DNA…

Little Charlie, who  died of AML at just age three. It’s a diagnosis you never want to hear: Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). These three words represent a devastating diagnosis of childhood cancer with dire consequences for many families. In Australia AML is the most common form of acute leukemia in adults and is responsible for one fifth of all childhood leukemia cases (about 50 children ) each...

Children with complex medical conditions, especially those who require behavioral health treatment, often have to go outside of their insurance plans’ provider networks for care, a new study has found.