Category archives for: Health & Science

C.W. Driver completes new ‘gateway’ to UCSD East Medical Campus

A new medical office building designed as a gateway building to the University of California, San Diego’s (UCSD) Health Sciences and Medical Center has opened its doors to doctors and staff. Built by C.W. Driver, which led the design-build team that included Gensler as the architect and Miyamoto International as the structural engineer, the building provides much-needed office space in a convenient location adjacent to medical facilities such as the Thornton Hospital and Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center.

UCSD to rock five-story building during quake test

Shake-table test will subject building’s inner workings to jolts like those of record-setting earthquakes

Dr. Charles Cochrane celebrates the ‘birth’ of Surfaxin Immunologist’s ‘new’ drug a gift to premature infants

Most of us have tasks taking minutes, hours, days. So just imagine what it was like for La Jolla immunologist Charles G. Cochrane who took more than 20 years to find and market a drug to combat a dreaded early-infancy disease.

Scripps to replace WW II-era structures in Seaweed Canyon

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) will spend $6.4 million in state funds to replace Quonset huts and latrine buildings in Seaweed Canyon, located on the Scripps campus just east of the Birch Aquarium. The structures, used for research and storage, will be replaced by three prefabricated metal structures.

Nexus of human touch and technology the focus of annual Scripps Health symposium

“We are entering a magical era in technology, but parallel to that comes the sense that there’s also jeopardy.”
— Dr. Abraham Verghese

Tar balls reported near Scripps Pier

The tar balls — globs or lumps of solidified petroleum — were anywhere from fist- to plate-sized.

Scripps Health’s Eric Topol to sign book March 21

Acclaimed physician-researcher and Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Eric Topol will sign his new book, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine,” 7:30 p.m. March 21 at Warwick’s bookstore, 7812 Girard Ave. in La Jolla.

Rotary donates toys for ill children in Mexico

Dr. Elizabeth Jones, founding president of the Foundation for the Children of the Californias, which operates Infantile de las Californias, a hospital on the Mexican side of the border in Otay Mesa, receives a bundle of stuffed animals for hospital children from Nancy Stoke of Torrey Pines (La Jolla) Rotary Club on March 7. The [...]

Professor’s research could reduce ‘bite’ of warfare

A UC San Diego professor has discovered a structure in prehistoric fish that he believes could aid in the development of a protective, flexible armor for soldiers, and applications such as fuel cells, insulation and aerospace innovation.

Meditation man guides his students toward a calmer, more balanced self

“Meditation always looks like it’s somewhat esoteric, but it’s not — it’s practical,” says Michael DeFrancisco, who has taught it to people of all ages and backgrounds.

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