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Health Care in Your Hands
By Michael Morella Jan. 15, 2015 | 8:00 a.m. EST Cardiologist Eric Topol explains the impact technology will have on the future of medicine. From wearable fitness trackers to virtual doctor visits to smartphone apps and attachments that can collect sophisticated medical information, new technology is giving users unprecedented direct access to their own health
Scripps Study Participant Enters White House Film Contest
Video shows how technology helps La Jolla High junior overcome condition When the White House asked students from across the country to submit short films about the power of technology in schools, La Jolla teen Lilly Grossman eagerly answered the call. Lilly, 16, who attends La Jolla High School, is a participant in a Scripps
Dr. Daniel Salomon presents President Obama with HOPE Act for signature
TIME By Maya Rhodan @m_rhodanNov. 22, 2013 Two weeks before World AIDS Day, President Obama has signed a new law that replaces a ban on using the organs of HIV positive people. It has been illegal since the 1980s to even study whether or not transplants between HIV positive people could be done safely and
Wireless Sensors Used to Study Meditations Effect on Heart Health
Scripps Translational Science Institute teams with Chopra Center, Chopra Foundation in innovative research SAN DIEGO – Demystifying meditation with science, researchers at the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) have teamed with The Chopra Foundation and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in a novel study of the ancient practice that uses wireless health sensors to collect
Scripps Translational Science Institute gets $29 Million Grant
By Bradley J. Fikes 8 A.M. OCT. 22, 2013 Scripps Translational Science Institute has received a $29 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund research into individualized medicine. The five-year grant, announced Tuesday, is the second from the NIH. The first was awarded in 2008, for $20 million. The funding will pay
Scripps Launches Wired for Health Study
Researchers at the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) have launched Wired for Health, a clinical study aimed at evaluating whether the integration of wireless technologies, online social networks and medicine can have a direct effect on health care spending. Collaborators in the effort include Scripps Health; Qualcomm Life Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated; HealthComp;
Dr. Eric Topol on cNBC Documentary – Rise of the Machines
The Future Has Arrived All around us, there’s a technological revolution underway powered by devices as small as a grain of rice. They are sensors, capable of tracking and recording everything we do. They’re in our smartphones, our cars, our appliances, even our bodies, and they’re connected to the Internet to share information and make
Dr. Steven Steinhubl joins STSI as Director for Digital Medicine
Steven Steinhubl, M.D., has been named director of the Digital Medicine program at Scripps Health, where he will lead the scientific evaluation of cutting edge mobile health devices and apps through the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI). His work will help to address a key challenge facing the nascent mobile health industry – providing the
Genomic Medicine Just Hit the Accelerator
By Eric J. Topol, MD Angelina Jolie’s May 14 op-ed entitled “My Medical Choice” recapped why she had her BRCA genes sequenced, and why she made the decision to undergo prophylactic bilateral mastectomy upon finding that she carried a very high-risk mutation. Notably, the decisions were her own — to get the genes sequenced in
The Story of Lilly Grossman written by National Geographic
“We Gained Hope” – The Story of Lilly Grossman’s Genome National Geographic by Ed Yong National Geographic Coverage More information about the study can be found here: IDIOM Press Release