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Bay Area Job Watch: Hot Economy Cooling Off?
Today the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released job estimates for February 2016. Here are the highlights: Bay Area Job Growth Continues to Outpace the State and Nation The region added 129,000 jobs between February …
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Bay Area Job Watch
Bay Area job growth continued strong in 2015 and the region has added more than 550,000 jobs since 2010. Regional job growth has been led by technology with strong gains in health care and hospitality, …
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Bay Area Job Watch
Last week the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released revised job estimates for 2015 along with new data for January 2016. Here are the highlights: The Bay Area Outpaced the State and Nation in Job …
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Liquid Biopsies
“Thankfully next generation sequencing is so sensitive if you sequence the same fragment of DNA thousands and thousands of times, you will find that tumor’s specific DNA. And almost all of the cases in …
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The Genomics of HIV and Cancer
“Everybody’s virus was sequenced and then the relation between that sequence and the responsiveness to drugs was built, which then allowed to us to build regiments that had higher likelihood of success and then …
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The Big Data Explosion
“It isn’t all about the “omics” in precision medicine. Unless you have the clinical context that sits around these samples, then it’s actually of very limited value. What I mean by that is you …
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The Clinical Utility of Precision Medicine
“I’m delighted that we have had a huge success in breast cancer and have moved to colon cancer and prostate cancer. We really just have to do better, though, before I would say, ‘we …
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Precision Medicine in the Community Hospital Setting
“We need to optimize our SOPs at the beginning, we need to have transparency with our oncologists, and our pathologists, and the diagnostics labs all of this needs to be done, which is improvement …
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Vision and Strategies for California’s Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine
“For precision medicine we are thinking beyond cancer, really thinking about the opportunity with asthma, obesity, diabetes, really broadly. That ends up bringing more types of data that we need to be thinking about …
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Precision Medicine and Infectious Disease
“The problem with precision medicine and sequencing a patient that has often been leveled at us is that you can’t do it fast. Are you going to sequence them and give me the results …
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Caribbean Vacations and Quality of Life
“If you were just diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer of the squamous variety five years ago your life expectancy was 12 to 14 months, but here it is four years later and she still …
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A New Definition of Cancer
“One of the things we also got is a new definition of cancer and that is the importance of genomics. We are moving cancer from an 1850s definition that involved histology, to a 21st …