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Weekly Adolescent Substance Abuse Seminars Offer Education and Help
May 21, 2012 - News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaHelping parents understand adolescent alcohol or substance abuse is the goal of the informational adolescent intervention seminars offered by the Scripps McDonald Center located on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. These weekly seminars ar Read More
Scripps Doctors Study Novel New Device to Diagnose Irregular Heart Beat
May 11, 2012 - News, Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps ClinicA study conducted at Scripps Health has found that a novel new heart monitoring device helped emergency room patients avoid unnecessary follow-up care. Scripps Health electrophysiologist Steven Higgins, MD, presented findings of the study, titled “Prevalence of Arrhythmias in Emergency Department Patients Discharged Using a Novel Ambulatory Cardiac Monitor,” today at the Heart Rhythm Society’s ... Read More
Scripps to Host Cancer Survivors Day Celebrations in June
May 8, 2012 - News, Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy HospitalScripps Cancer Center will host free public celebrations throughout the month of June for local cancer survivors, their families, friends and the community at large at each of its four hospitals across San Diego County, in conjunction with the 25th annual National Cancer Survivors Day. The programs are open to all residents who have a history of cancer (and their guests), regardless of where pa... Read More
New Pap Guidelines: Is The Annual Exam Gone?
April 10, 2012 - Wellness, Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy Hospital, Scripps Clinic, Scripps Coastal Medical CenterCervical cancer was once the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American women. In the 1930s, more American women died of cervical cancer than any other kind of cancer, including breast or lung. But in 1943, a new method for cervical screening was introduced. The Babeș-Papanicolaou test (named after physicians who pioneered the method), also called a “Pap smear” or “Pap test,” became the... Read More
Band Over Bypass Helps Patients Who Have Regained Weight After Bariatric Surgery
April 4, 2012 - News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaBand Over Bypass Revision Surgery Helps Patients Lose Weight—Again Singer Carnie Wilson, a founding member of pop group Wilson Phillips, has been open about her struggle with obesity for more than a decade, including a much-publicized decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery in 2000. In the years following surgery, Wilson had two children and, according to reports, regained more than 70 perce... Read More
Ten Signs Your Teen May Be Using Drugs
March 30, 2012 - News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaTen Signs Your Teen May Be Using Drugs You’ve caught your high school student smoking marijuana. He swears it is the first time he’s tried it, and it won’t happen again. Is this just an adolescent “rite of passage”—or something far more serious? “The drugs of choice among adolescents today are far different and much more powerful than those with which their parents may have experimented with as... Read More
New Test May Predict the Possibility of a Heart Attack
March 21, 2012 - Scripps in the News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaNew findings from a landmark research study led by Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) – a collaborative program between Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) – shows a promising new blood test may be useful in helping doctors predict who is at risk for an imminent heart attack. Results of the study, titled “Characterization of Circulating Endothelial Cells in Acut... Read More
Herion Addiction on the Rise in San Diego
March 12, 2012 - Scripps in the News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaHeroin use among young adults in San Diego County is skyrocketing, according to statistics compiled by the county’s Health & Human Services Agency. Drug counselors say they have seen a big increase in heroin abuse in adults ages 18 to 25. Nancy Knott from the Scripps Treatment Center talks to 10 News about this alarming trend and how help is available. As seen on KGTV Read More
Addiction Expert Notes Rising Heroin Use
February 28, 2012 - Scripps in the News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaIt’s been almost two years since the FDA approved a new time-release design of Oxycontin to prevent illegal misuse and abuse of the pain relieving drug. But the new version is causing San Diego authorities new stress. They’re seeing an alarming rise in people switching to heroin as a potentially deadly substitute. Nancy Knott, treatment counselor at the Scripps Treatment Program discusses this ... Read More
Bath Salts: The Newest Designer Drug
February 14, 2012 - Scripps in the News, Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaBy Nancy Knott, M.A., Scripps Health Imagine someone using meth, cocaine, LSD and ecstasy (MDMA) at the same time, and you’ll get an idea of the effects of the latest synthetic or “designer” drug to become popular with adolescents and young adults: bath salts. Don’t let the name fool you. These aren’t the fragrant granules you sprinkle in bath water to soothe tension. Sold as “bath salts” or “p... Read More