More than two weeks after a cyberattack led to a network outage at Scripps Health, the San Diego-based health system is still fighting to get back online.
After detecting the security incident on May 1, Scripps Health suspended user access to its IT applications, including its online patient portal and scripps.org. As of Monday, the website continues to display an error message. We apologize for any inconvenience and are working diligently to restore our systems as quickly and as safely as possible, read a statement posted to the system s Facebook page on May 12.
Scripps has been largely tight-lipped about the details of the attack, with CEO and President Chris Van Gorder describing it in a May 10 internal memo as a cybersecurity incident with malware placed on our information system.
May 15, 2021
The estimated 1-year rate of ischemic stroke after implantation of the Watchman left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device (Boston Scientific) was 1.53% in its first few years of commercial use in the United States, which encompassed a relatively high-risk population of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), registry data show.
That’s substantially lower than would be expected in a cohort of patients with a similar thromboembolic risk based on CHA
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2-VASc score who are not taking oral anticoagulation (6.64%), Matthew Price, MD (Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA), reported Saturday during the virtual American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2021 Scientific Session.
The low thromboembolic event rate observed in the study, which used information from the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) LAAO Registry, “supports the early-to-midterm clinical effectiveness of transcatheter LAAO as it is being currently utilized in the United States,” Price said.
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How ungrateful can Puesto be?
La Jolla Light).
The pandemic hit restaurants and bars very hard. Since the restaurants generally did not have the indoor space to operate within the social distancing guidelines, San Diego and La Jolla graciously allowed the restaurants to expand onto the sidewalks and streets, including parking spaces.
This was intended to be a temporary measure to help the restaurants survive the pandemic. Instead of being grateful for the accommodation, Puesto is acting entitled. It is taking advantage of the situation by seeking to entrench its control over the outdoor space.
Puesto’s demand for a five-year extension of a temporary privilege comes with a cost. Both the neighboring businesses and the public rely on the availability of parking within convenient walking distance as well as having passable sidewalks. If there are fewer places to park and the sidewalks become cluttered with tables, chairs and fencing, people will be deterred from visiting and patro