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Scripps in the News | August 15, 2018

Media Cover New U.S. News Rankings

Several media outlets covered the release of the 2018 top hospital rankings by U.S. News and World Report.
News Releases | August 14, 2018

U.S. News Ranks Scripps Hospitals No. 1 in San Diego Region For Second Consecutive Year

Scripps Green and La Jolla hospitals were ranked number one in the San Diego region for the second year in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
Health and Wellness | August 1, 2018

Facts About Heart Disease

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Here's what you need to know about heart attacks and heart disease.
Thomas Heywood, MD, treating LVAD heart patient Scott Fitzgerald
Scripps in the News | July 10, 2018

Scripps Heart Transplant Patient Lauds Use of LVAD to Keep Him Alive

Heart transplant patient Scott Fitzgerald was featured on 10News, Ivanhoe News, and San Diego Magazine explaining how the use of the LVAD helped save his life.
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.
Stethoscope on top of white lab coat, symbolizing heart health.
Health and Wellness | June 21, 2018

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

Men and women may have different symptoms when experiencing a heart attack. A Scripps cardiologist, explains the warning signs.
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.
Health and Wellness | May 29, 2018

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

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.
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.
Health and Wellness | May 22, 2018

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

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.
The interatrial shunt device is an experimental device designed to relieve symptoms from heart failure.
News Releases | May 18, 2018

Scripps Enrolls First Local Patient for Heart Failure Device Trial

Scripps enrolled the first local patient in an international clinical trial of an interatrial shunt device designed to relieve heart failure symptoms.
Health and Wellness | May 1, 2018

How the Watchman Implant Is Helping People with AFib (podcast)

Scripps cardiologist Douglas Gibson and his patient, David Brush discuss how the Watchman heart device came to be the right solution for Brush, who has AFib.