Virtual reality therapy is effective in significantly reducing pain for hospitalised patients, according to a new Cedars-Sinai study. In the study, published online by JMIR Mental Health, a sister publication of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, investigators examined 100 hospitalised patients who reported pain scores of greater than 3 on the Numeric Pain Rating Scale from zero to 10.

A team of investigators from Cedars-Sinai and UCLA is using a blood-analysis technique and tiny experimental device to help physicians predict which cancers are likely to spread by identifying and characterising tumor cells circulating through the blood. The investigators are conducting "liquid biopsies" by running blood through a postage-stamp-sized chip with nanowires 1,000 times thinner than a human hair and coated with antibodies, or pro...

An innovative tool that resembles a wristwatch could improve the quality of life for patients with Parkinson's disease and better inform neurologists who treat them. A Cedars-Sinai research team is one of the first in the nation to test the PKG data logger, which tracks the movements of Parkinson's patients every two minutes over a period of six to 10 days. The information enables neurologists to generate reports showing the fluctuations of Parki...