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  • Scripps in the News

    "The Colbert Report" Features Dr. Eric Topol, Digital Medicine

    Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Eric Topol, MD, combined light-hearted humor with serious exchanges about digital health technology and the future of medicine during a guest appearance on Comedy Central’s hit program “The Colbert Report.” The cardiologist and genomics ...

  • Wellness

    Top 5 High Tech Advances in Heart Care

    Your heart beats approximately 100,000 times every day. It is one of the most complex and hardest working parts of your body. And because of all the work your heart does for you, it deserves the best care. Scripps physicians have been researching techniques and devices designed to help improve ...

    • Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

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    Social Media Campaign a 'Slam Dunk' For State-Of-The-Art Heart Care

    Scripps month-long social media campaign “The Beat Goes On” came to a splashing and successful conclusion at noon on Monday, Feb.4 2013. That’s when employees and volunteers at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla teamed up with local residents to form a human heart around future Hall-of-Fame ...

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    A Woman’s Heart

    By Kiyon Chung, MD, Scripps Health With both Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month on the calendar, February is all about keeping hearts happy. While coronary heart disease (CHD) remains the leading cause of death among both women and men—claiming one in four lives in the United States—the ...

  • Scripps in the News

    Minutes Matter in Heart Attack Treatment

    Each year, about 1.2 million people in the United States have heart attacks. When a heart attack strikes, what happens in the next few minutes can make a critical difference in both the immediate and long-term health consequences. Read the full article in which Martin Charlat, MD, a cardiologist ...

    • Thursday, January 24th, 2013

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    EP Save a Life Foundation Urges Parents to Screen Kids

    Through sponsorship of the Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation, Scripps volunteers, including physicians and nurses, screen students throughout the San Diego and Riverside regions to help raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest in adolescents. The Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation urges parents ...

    • Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

  • News Releases

    Scripps Health Heart Program Listed Among Top 100

    The combined heart programs at Scripps Green Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla are one of the six California hospitals recognized on Becker’s Hospital Review’s 2013 “100 Hospitals With Great Heart Programs” list. The publication first identified hospitals that offer outstanding heart ...

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    Scripps Social Media Fund-raising Campaign Could Be ‘Slam Dunk’ for Heart Care

    Scripps has launched The Beat Goes On social media campaign to raise money for its heart care program. If all goes well, the campaign will end with a swim in a dunk tank by future Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Hoffman and event organizer Susan Taylor. “The hope is that we can ...

    • Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

  • Wellness

    The Secrets of Healthy Fats

    Medical understanding of role of dietary fat in health and wellness has changed greatly in the past 40 years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says fats and oils supplied about 45 percent of calories during the 1960s. Back then, the adult obesity rate was 9.7 percent, and less than 1 percent of ...

    • Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

  • News Releases

    VAD Program at Scripps Awarded Certification from The Joint Commission

    Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval as a hospital performing Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) as a destination therapy. Destination therapy is permanent support for end stage heart failure by means of an implantable artificial heart ...