Mountain View, CA, May 4, 2012--Radio and Internet ads for sleep clinics often feature a laundry list of symptoms associated with chronic sleep disorders: fatigue, irritability, inability to concentrate, memory loss, slow reaction, angry outbursts, and looking tired. Some ads focus on chronic snoring; others point out increased risk for heart disease, diabetes and early death.
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Mountain View, CA, April 21, 2012--Mountain View, California, April 21, 2012 -- Four hundred thirty El Camino Hospital and Foundation supporters gathered at The Fairmont San Jose on Saturday evening April 21 for the second annual Sapphire Soirée, a gala benefit for the Cancer Center. The black tie affair raised $920,000. Proceeds will fund a pioneering High Risk Breast Program, which identifies women at elevated risk for breast cancer and helps them develop proactive, personalized follow-up plans, and will also be used to establish a Melanoma Program that provides screening, diagnosis, and treatment for the potentially fatal, increasingly common skin cancer.
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Mountain View, CA, April 19, 2012--More than 1400 El Camino Hospital volunteers have logged well over 100,000 hours this fiscal year, adding to the more than 5 million total hours milestone they reached early last year. "This week as we celebrate National Volunteer Week, we want our extraordinary volunteers to know just how valuable and appreciated they are," says El Camino Hospital CEO Tomi Ryba. "While we appreciate the skills and dedication of our extraordinary paid workforce, our volunteers help make it possible to deliver not just superior care, but superior caring."
Mountain View, CA, March 27, 2012--Over 800 of Silicon Valley's top civic and South Asian community leaders, gathered at the Santa Clara County Convention Center Saturday, March 24th, to celebrate "Scarlet Night," the fourth annual fundraising gala of the South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital. The event pushed the Center past its annual goal of raising $300,000, generating more than $250,000 from ticket sales, individual donations, auction proceeds and corporate sponsorships to support the Center's work to end the epidemic of heart disease among South Asians. Equally important, it raised awareness of just how critical this work has become.
After nearly three decades as an operating room nurse and manager, Mary Rivera, R.N., learned the hard way that standing on cement floors day after day takes its toll on your joints. At first the pain in her hip was manageable, but over time it grew worse.
El Camino Hospital has profiled many of patients Dr. Shane Dormady's patients--patients who have overcome Stage IV cancers. In this interview, we ask Dr. Dormady about the current state of cancer care, the latest innovations in treatments, and how the El Camino Hospital Cancer Center works on behalf of its patients.
For the past year or so, I've had occasional sharp pains in my right shoulder blade (always in the same spot) and sometimes felt a bit sick to my stomach after going out to dinner. But my symptoms were always short-term and sporadic--the pain would come on at night but would always be gone in the morning, causing me to think that perhaps I had just imagined it. But in January 2012, I was in so much pain I went to the ER at 3 a.m. in tears. Blood work and an ultrasound revealed I had something I had not expected at all--gallstones (hard, pebble-like deposits that form inside the gallbladder).
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