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Rancho Santa Fe couple Warner and Debbie Lusardi have donated $25 million to Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas to help fund a new acute-care hospital tower and pulmonary institute, the hospital announced Thursday.

A San Diego doctor is warning people about the dangers of COVID-19. He responds to those who question health experts about mask-wearing, case increases, and those who compare the virus to the common flu.

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado shared some dismissive claims about COVID-19 with an ICU doctor.

As waves crashed against the shoreline in Encinitas on Monday, a bright blue hue overtook the ocean thanks to the return of an unpredictable natural phenomenon.

Bioluminescence created a brilliant, neon blue glow in Encinitas.

Earlier this month, a San Diego scientist studying the potential of thousands of existing drugs to treat COVID-19 said the research looked promising. Now, just a few weeks later, Dr. Sumit Chanda and his team have a short list of 30. Dr. Chanda and his colleagues at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla have been in…

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, famed for wearing goggles during his NBA career, stopped by Scripps Health in San Diego on Monday, where he donated – what else? — 900 pairs of safety goggles to health care workers

Lakers Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hand-delivered 900 pairs of safety goggles on Monday to health-care workers at Scripps Health in San Diego

Local scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute are working on finding an antiviral drug to treat COVID-19. Sumit Chanda, PHD, and his colleagues are using what’s called the ReFRAME drug re-purposing collection. It involves testing a library of existing drugs that have been used successfully to treat other viruses. Using live samples of the novel coronavirus,...

A doctor told NBC 7’s Jackie Crea the research looks promising.

To help deal with a potential influx of people showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus, Scripps Health launched a coronavirus nurse hotline connecting patients to a team of nurses dedicated to screen for the virus.

Two people were air-lifted to a hospital after their car tumbled hundreds of feet off Scripps Poway Parkway Friday morning.

A Scripps Ranch home caught fire Sunday morning, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue.

When gunfire rang out at a Church’s Chicken restaurant in Otay Mesa Wednesday night, bystanders rushed to help three employees struck by bullets, one that was deadly.

It’s being called one giant leap for womankind. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch performed the first all-female spacewalk Friday roughly 250 miles up at the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Jessica Mei and Christina Koch became the first all-female team to spacewalk at ISS.

NBC 7’s Sheena Parveen is with Dr. Thomas Buchholz, Medical Director of Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Rick Hazard, real men wear pink ambassador to discuss the Making Strides Against Cancer walk this weekend.

NBC 7’s Ramon Galindo is at a house where a car crashed through the garage causing major damage.