Stanford Medicine and Sutter Health have formalized a collaborative that will expand Stanford Cancer Care services throughout the East Bay, increasing cancer care access for underserved communities.

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Since the start of the pandemic, the Stanford Clinical Virology Lab has worked to keep up with testing requirements. In addition to purchasing new instruments to meet with volume demands, the lab established a new emergency infectious disease lab to process an additional 6,000 tests per day.

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Jon Kosek, clinical professor emeritus of pathology at Stanford University who mentored hundreds of pathology residents and medical students, passed away at the age of 90 on Oct. 16.

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An accelerated timeline for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine nationally could get an additional 2.4 million people inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine, a Stanford Medicine study published on Jan. 4 in “Annals of Internal Medicine” found.

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Proposition 22 allows “app-based rideshare” companies — such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash and Instacart — to treat gig workers as independent contractors, saving them from having to pay for benefits afforded to formal employees.

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Even as the two become increasingly influential, the University has declined to take a stance on their views, instead advocating for the right of affiliates to express opposing views.

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