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    Conrad Prebys Emergency and Trauma Center Now Open

    Scripps Health has opened the new Conrad Prebys Emergency & Trauma Center to treat patients at Scripps Mercy Hospital. The new facility is named in honor of Conrad Prebys, the prominent San Diego developer and philanthropist who donated $10 million to support Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego’s ...

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    New Book, 'The Creative Destruction of Medicine,' Describes How Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

    San Diego – The inventions of cell phones, personal computers, and the Internet ushered in the digital revolution and altered our existence in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. But the most precious part of our existence — our health — has so far been largely unaffected ...

    • Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

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    Scripps Health’s Dr. Eric Topol Foresees Consumer Electronics Fueling Revolution in Health Care

    Las Vegas – Wireless electronic devices such as those on display at the 2012 International CES are driving a revolution in the medical world that promises to radically change the way health care is delivered to patients. That’s the wake-up call that physician-researcher Dr. Eric Topol of ...

    • Monday, January 9th, 2012

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    Scripps Dedicates Conrad Prebys Emergency & Trauma Center

    Scripps Health today will dedicate the new Conrad Prebys Emergency & Trauma Center at Scripps Mercy Hospital. The phased expansion project will nearly double the size of the current emergency department. Upon completion, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego will boast a 27,000-square-foot, 49 bed ...

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    Two San Diego Research Groups Named to Stand Up To Cancer Dream Team

    La Jolla, Calif. – Two groups of San Diego researchers — one from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and the other a collaboration between Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute — were named today as part of a new “dream team” to find innovative new ways to ...

    • Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

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    La Jolla Radiology Medical Group Joins Scripps

    Scripps Health announced today that the 27 physicians of the highly regarded La Jolla Radiology Medical Group are joining Scripps Clinic Medical Group in a deal completed today to offer comprehensive radiology services at Scripps facilities across the reg

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    MD Anderson Medical Physicist to Join Scripps Proton Therapy Center

    San Diego – Lei Dong, PhD, an accomplished medical physicist who has spent most of his career at the nation’s top-ranked University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, will join Scripps Health as chief medical physicist of the Scripps Proton Therapy Center. Most recently, Dong served as professor ...

    • Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

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    NBC San Diego News Anchor Susan Taylor to Join Scripps Health

    Award-winning NBC San Diego news anchor Susan Taylor is joining Scripps Health in a role focused on representing Scripps to community and patient groups and leaders throughout the region. As executive director of external affairs, Taylor will play an active and critical role in raising awareness and ...

    • Friday, November 18th, 2011

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    Scripps Health & Rady Children's Team Up on Proton Therapy

    Scripps Health and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego today announced they will team up to provide advanced proton treatment at Scripps Proton Therapy Center to pediatric cancer patients who need this highly accurate form of therapy. According to the center’s medical director, Dr. Carl J. Rossi, ...

    • Thursday, November 17th, 2011

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    Dr. Eric J. Topol Presented with 2011 TCT Career Achievement Award

    Scripps Health’s Eric J. Topol, MD, a world-renowned cardiologist and physician-scientist, was presented the 2011 TCT Career Achievement Award in a ceremony held today during the 23rd annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium. The award is given each year to a ...

    • Wednesday, November 9th, 2011