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BMI is often criticized because it doesn't take into account gender differences and doesn't distinguish between bone mass, muscle mass and excess fat. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have now come up with a formula they claim paints a more accurate picture of one's body fat.

Great news! According to the results of a new study, sexual activity is very unlikely to result in a sudden cardiac arrest, especially if you are a woman. On the flip side, if you are unlucky enough to experience a not-so-happy ending, your chances of survival are pretty poor.

​Presently, for a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, doctors have to perform a PET scan of patients' brains. Soon, however, a simple eye scan may be all that's required – and it could catch the disease sooner than ever before.

Mechanical pacemakers serve an invaluable purpose, by electrically stimulating a recipient's heart. Now, for the first time, scientists have injected genes into the defective hearts of pigs, converting unspecialized heart cells into "biological pacemakers."

Scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have successfully reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of so-called “pacemaker” heart cells.