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Thursday, June 26, 2008

UCLA’s new hospital takes technology to new frontiers

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner

During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw -- just like a football commentator -- on images displayed on a screen.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

How to power through those plateaus in dieting

By Amy Paturel

I won't give up I won't give up!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Fitness maven builds his career building up stars

By Marcie Somers

He's young, he's buff, he's Jewish

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Dark currents surface in surfing clan’s idyllic life

By Sally Ogle Davis

A nice Jewish doctor decides his family must live on in a camper and surf . . . all the time; and here's the documentary to prove it

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Researchers stop biological clock during chemo

By Karin Kloosterman

Girls as young as 14 who are exposed to chemotherapy for treating breast cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and other non-malignant diseases such as lupus, put their reproductive system at risk. The chemotherapy can trigger premature menopause and leave women infertile.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Not your grandmother’s Alzheimer’s

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner

Carol Kirsch is among the 5 percent to 10 percent of individuals with early onset Alzheimer's, those who develop symptoms before the age of 65. And she is one of the growing number who are being diagnosed at an early stage of the disease.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Kosher water makes a splash in the market

By Jay Firestone

Whether you're drinking filtered, spring or mineral water, purity has long been considered a desired element in bottled water. But when it comes to purity, only one word can truly capture it all -- kosher.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

When challah becomes the bread of affliction

By Adam Wills

Rabbi Marvin Hier fondly recalls bakery-fresh buns and muffins in his lunch when he attended yeshiva. He also admits to a penchant for challah.
Hier hasn't eaten challah, let alone matzah, in several years. But this bread-free existence isn't part of some Passover-inspired, Atkins-style diet. The founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center was diagnosed with celiac disease (CD) more than four years ago.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Jewish women change their destinies by testing for genetic mutation

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax

While within the general population about 5 percent of cancers can be attributed to a hereditary syndrome, in the Jewish community, that number is closer to 30 percent. The good news is that knowledge about how the mutation causes cancer is opening scientific doors to more effective, targeted treatment for those already diagnosed. And people who have the genetic mutation can take preventative measures to drastically reduce their breast and ovarian cancer risk.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Israel’s geriatrics study tour inspires professionals

By Batsheva Pomerantz

Nearly a dozen eldercare professionals and paraprofessionals spent three days in January on a whirlwind tour of Jerusalem, Beersheva and Dimona, visiting day-care centers, sheltered housing arrangements and full-service facilities; listening to lecturers addressing such topics as how different ethnic groups care for their elderly and innovations in Alzheimer's care, and learning about new developments in aging-related services.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Women’s Heart Health 101

By Jenny Stamos

Advice about cholesterol for women.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Our family’s journey to make sure our special son was included

By Rony Rosenbaum

As soon as they put him on my belly, I knew. I looked at his eyes, and they were a bit puffy, as is normal after a regular delivery, but I knew.

My husband, Mark, said he looked perfect, with all fingers and toes accounted for. I kept asking if he was all right; he was our second child, after all, and I knew he wasn't, because a mother knows.

Mark kept believing everything was OK until he followed the nurses down to the nursery, and they asked for pediatricians to come in. Nurses attended to our first born, Jason -- not doctors.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Get the doctor’s attention—for a fee

By Sara Shereen Bakhshian

Rising costs, crowded waiting rooms and decreasing access to doctors are among the reasons medical patients in Southern California and across the nation use words like "headache" and "frustration" to describe America's health care system. And with declining insurance reimbursements, rising malpractice premiums, claims frustrations and growing paperwork, individual practitioners are often forced to increase the volume of patients they see as they decrease time spent in the examination room.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Ashkenazi women and ovarian cancer

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner

Dr. Beth Y. Karlan is the director of the Cedars-Sinai Women's Cancer Research Institute at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. Her specialty is ovarian cancer, the deadliest of gynecologic cancers and one that is diagnosed in more than 22,000 women annually.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Selma’s Sermon

By David Suissa

Is there a better day than the one when we abstain from all physical sustenance to reflect on the sanctity of the human body and honor the Torah's injunction that "You shall guard your being"?

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Teens, fasting and fainting

By Louis Keene

Yael Rabin didn't feel any symptoms until it was too late, but if she had, she would have had Jewish law on her side in breaking her fast.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Meditation—not just for your average JewBu anymore

By Merissa Nathan Gerson

The model for the day was dying for the sake of rebirth. Think meditation, think spiritual awakening, think psychoanalysis.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Funding shortage and ignorance hurt pancreatic cancer fight

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax

About 95 percent of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will die within five years, the highest mortality rate of any cancer.