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Health and Wellness | June 21, 2018

What Is Heart Disease? (video)

A Scripps cardiologist discusses the risk factors for heart disease and offers advice on how to prevent heart problems and what to do in case of a heart attack.
Health and Wellness | June 21, 2018

What Are the Symptoms of a Heart Attack in Men and Women? (video)

Stethoscope on top of white lab coat, symbolizing heart health.
Men and women may have different symptoms when experiencing a heart attack. A Scripps cardiologist, explains the warning signs.
Scripps in the News | June 19, 2018

Spinoff Raises $2.4 Million for Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center

Scripps Health President and CEO Chris Van Gorder, Thomas Buchholz, medical director Scripps MD Anderson, and James LaBelle, Scripps Health chief medical officer posed together at the 2018 Spinoff event that raised $2.4 million for cancer care.
The 27th annual Spinoff Gala raised $2.4 million to benefit the new Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Scripps in the News | June 1, 2018

Scripps Trauma Patient To Race in Rock 'n' Roll Marathon

Scripps La Jolla, 2017 Truven Top 100 Hospitals
A local woman who was treated by a Scripps trauma surgeon last year will compete in the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon using a hand cycle wheelchair.
News Releases | May 30, 2018

Scripps Invests $398 Million into Community Benefits in Region

A diabetes educator at Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute teaches patients how to help manage diabetes.
Scripps Health, a nonprofit health system, invested $398 million into community benefit programs in San Diego County during fiscal year 2017,
Health and Wellness | May 29, 2018

LVADs, Pacemakers and How One Woman Is Thriving After a Heart Transplant (podcast)

A heart failure patient holds an LVAD device that has been implanted to keep the patient's heart functioning while a new heart becomes available for a heart transplant.
Heart failure patient Darla Calvet and cardiologist Thomas Heywood discuss how the LVAD helped keep her heart working while she waited for a heart transplant.
News Releases | May 25, 2018

All Scripps Hospitals Recognized for Excellent Stroke Care

A female doctor explains the results of a CT scan with a stroke patient.
All five Scripps Health hospital campuses earned AHA/ASA Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards for meeting high treatment standards for stroke treatment.
Health and Wellness | May 22, 2018

LVAD Buys Time, Saves Lives When Heart Failure Strikes (video)

Cardiologist Thomas Heywood, MD, and patient Darla Calvet sat down with San Diego Health host Susan Taylor to discuss how Calvet overcame heart failure with help from a heart device known as LVAD.
A heart device known as LVAD helped keep Scripps patient Darla Calvet alive while she waited for a heart transplant to overcome her heart failure condition.
News Releases | May 18, 2018

Scripps Enrolls First Local Patient for Heart Failure Device Trial

The interatrial shunt device is an experimental device designed to relieve symptoms from heart failure.
Scripps enrolled the first local patient in an international clinical trial of an interatrial shunt device designed to relieve heart failure symptoms.
Scripps in the News | May 17, 2018

Trauma Expert Raises Awareness About Preventable Injuries

Imad Dandan, MD, a trauma surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, discussed injury prevention during a May Trauma Awareness news segment on KUSI. Scripps La Jolla is scheduled to host the Fifth Annual Trauma Awareness on Saturday, May 19.
Imad Dandan, MD, a trauma surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, recently went on KUSI to raise awareness about preventable injuries.