My View: Preparing your small business for success in 2022
In this guest column, an Arizona banking executive offers tips to small business owners in areas from marketing to hiring to help grow their enterprise in 2022.
State to provide staffing for 56 surge hospital beds at Kaiser South Sacramento
As the Omicron variant tears through Sacramento, Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center and the state are partnering to expand surge capacity at the hospital. Kaiser Permanente has set up 56 temporary beds to treat non-Covid patients at it...
Why Jennifer Aniston is helping a pharmaceutical firm take on insomnia
Idorsia, a Swiss pharmaceutical company with U.S. operations on the Main Line, has recruited actress Jennifer Aniston to help the company educate people about insomnia. Commercials featuring Aniston talking about the sleeping disorder that afflicts an...
Scientists identify malfunctioning brain cells as potential target for Alzheimer’s treatment
For the first time, scientists have identified a rare population of potentially toxic senescent cells in human brains that can serve as a target for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment. The study, published in the Dec.10 edition of the journal Nature ...
Latest technology puts patients on a path to better health and longer lives
Nearly 20 years ago, Dr. David Miller, physician with a background in computing and economics, envisioned a need to create digital health education materials. He and his colleague and friend, Dr. Ajay Dharod, teamed up to create the system that today i...
PBJ Interview: How to make a smarter city with Portland’s open data guy
Hector Dominguez Aguirre thinks a lot about all the data the city of Portland has and how it can be used to help the community.
Bernalillo County brings some systems back online, including clerk’s office
In a statement posted to YouTube, Bernalillo County Manager Julie Morgas Baca called the attack "a serious criminal cyber incident" and "an issue of local and national security breaches."
Podcast: Glassdoor new ratings give Nvidia a leg up on its rivals
On this week's Silicon Insider Podcast: Glassdoor's latest rankings had some significant surprises — and could shake up the Bay Area's recruiting scene.
Patti Payne’s Cool Pads: Former Laird Norton exec puts Seattle home on the market for $5.1M
Bob Moser guided Laird Norton Wealth Management through the Great Recession as well as the early days of the pandemic before retiring in 2020.
Andy Jassy aims to bring AWS success to Amazon
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has spent most of his time with the company developing Amazon Web Services into a thriving cloud business. His promotion to Amazon's top job signals how important AWS is to the company's success.