An Atherton couple has given $80 million to Lucile Packard Children s Hospital Stanford and Stanford University s School of Medicine to improve services for Bay Area mothers and babies.
For the past year, we’ve had to scrutinize every appointment we’ve made, every errand we’ve run, and every invitation we’ve accepted or declined. It’s been a constant exercise in risk management. Is possible exposure to COVID-19 worth holding onto a steady paycheck, keeping my child in school, picking up some toiletries, getting a haircut, seeing a friend?
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Dr. Benjamin Pinsky is a clinician and professor of pathology and infectious diseases at Stanford, and the editor-in-chief of the international Journal of Clinical Virology. He directs Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Virology Laboratory, which in January launched an ambitious project to identify and track variants of the Covid-19 virus in order to provide crucial information to vaccine researchers and public health officials. Earlier this month, his lab detected the first two cases of the South African Covid-19 variant in California.
Pinsky spoke with J. from his office in Palo Alto.
Tell me about the lab’s project to find Covid variants. What are you doing?
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Stanford Medicine and Sutter Health to Jointly Provide Cancer Care for Patients and Families in .
Sutter HealthFebruary 9, 2021 GMT
Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Sutter Health and Stanford Medicine have formalized a joint venture between the two health systems to expand access to coordinated, state-of-the-art cancer services for patients and their families in the East Bay. The Stanford Medicine | Sutter Health Cancer Collaborative will offer residents and their families an integrated and comprehensive suite of outpatient cancer-related services, including seamless coordination of early detection, cancer care and support programs. The joint venture also includes the construction of an integrated, multidisciplinary outpatient cancer center.