Scripps Celebrates 100 Years of Medical Breakthroughs
It’s a big years for Scripps. The healthcare institution is celebrating its 100th birthday, and in its century in SD, it’s racked up its fair share of accolades: US News and World Report has named Scripps in the top 50 hospitals for cardiology and orthopedics for 19 and 11 years running, respectivel
14 Women Working to Transform Human Health
Only about 37 percent of doctors in the US are women. When it comes to physician scientists—MDs engaged in medical research—the number of women drops to 33 percent. And thanks to a gender gap in clinical trials, women can find themselves suffering adverse effects from treatments and medications that
How Will AI Change Our Healthcare?
The year was 2018, and Dr. Gabriel Wardi saw a potential solution to a long-running problem in healthcare: sepsis. Wardi, the medical director for hospital sepsis at UC San Diego Health, says sepsis—an overzealous immune system response to an infection—kills about 10 million people a year worldwide,
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