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Information about 147,000 patients was stolen during a month-long attack in May.
Though California has ended most of its COVID-19 mandates on mask wearing, social distancing and capacity limits and handed down relaxed guidance on workplace protocols, many La Jolla businesses are still wondering how to implement and enforce the new standards.
A state board ends physical distancing requirements for workers and says many fully vaccinated employees can stop wearing masks.
To address the daunting task of reducing the flow of plastic into the ocean, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Rady School of Management named a winner of the inaugural Ocean Plastic Pollution Challenge during an online ceremony June 8.
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As San Diego County’s COVID-19 cases decline and vaccination numbers increase, local researchers are still engaged in the search for treatments for the disease and have found several potential treatments in existing medications, with long-range implications for treating not only the current pandemic but also any in the future.
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The Lyme disease awareness month of May might have come and gone, but for the local families affected by Lyme disease, the hope is that there would be consciousness of it from June to April as well.
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Others are expected to follow toward the end of the month.
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The health system says data thieves did not penetrate the main Epic records system.
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Placebo-controlled clinical trial is the first to examine THC and CBD as potential treatments.
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Researchers also are surprised to find that the turtles willingly mingle with divers.
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Rees Jones, who redesigned the Torrey South Course, thinks it should be awarded another U.S. Open.
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Before the vote, some opponents argued that the district will be indoctrinating students in critical race theory.
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San Diego County’s median home price rose to a record $725,000 in May, representing a 23 percent increase in one year.
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PROFILE: Paul Niles started working in restaurants at 15 and fell in love with the kitchen.
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The panga was discovered with 12 men and eight women aboard, Customs and Border Protection says.
An investigation continues into what data, if any, was potentially affected.
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As Scripps Health reaches the two-week mark in its ongoing ransomware outage, the “will be back soon” message posted on its website is beginning to look more than a little optimistic.
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La Jolla nurse Quinn Quackenbush is driven to provide better results for patients, and for that she landed two of UC San Diego Health’s Nurse of the Year awards.
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To better understand how human cells communicate with those from other animals and potentially ease the process of cultivating tissue and organs for human transplantation, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have taken the next step in research of chimeras — organisms that contain cells from two or more species.
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Scripps uses equipment known to be a favorite vector for attacks in 2020.
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With four weeks of in-person learning completed and most students on campus four days a week following a 13-month pandemic-related closure, the five San Diego Unified School District schools that make up the La Jolla Cluster have reported a total of four cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, as of May 7.
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With a UC San Diego expert forecasting flooding in La Jolla with nearly every high tide by the end of the century, San Diego City Councilman Joe LaCava said battling climate change, and specifically local sea-level rise, will take an approach combining “science, collaboration and grassroots advocacy.”
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The California Department of Public Health said it is monitoring the ransomware attack that severely impacted Scripps Health facilities throughout San Diego County, including in La Jolla, but has thus far determined that emergency procedures underway since May 1 have been adequate to ensure patients are safe.
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A ransomware attack continued to plague Scripps Health on May 3, creating confusion for patients and their families, especially those who were scheduled for appointments this week.
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As more and more people are getting one of the available COVID-19 vaccines, a term that might be coming to mind is herd immunity.
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The hospital system, which includes La Jolla, was hit in an attack that forced it to block patient access to online portals and divert some critical-care patients.
