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Those with Arizona nursing jobs (http://azjobs.cancercenter.com) may one day benefit from a new medical study being supported by one of the nation's largest technology companies.

Dell recently announced plans to expand the companies Powering the Possible program to provide funding, employee engagement, and cloud computing technology to support a number of pediatric cancer research programs.

Part of the funding will allow the Translational Genomics Research Institute, the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium, and Van Andel Research Institute to conduct the world's first personalized medicine trial for pediatric cancer.

TGen will use its genomic technology within Dell's cloud to help NMTRC identify a greater depth of personalized treatment strategies for children with neuroblastoma who are already enrolled in an NMTRC clinical trial.

Here are some key facts about neuroblastoma and the funding:

• Neuroblastoma attacks the sympathetic nervous system - which controls heart rate, blood pressure, and digestion - with aggressive tumors unique to each child.
• Neuroblastoma affects one out of every 100,000 children every year and is responsible for one in seven pediatric cancer-related deaths.
• The Food and Drug Administration has only approved one new treatment for childhood cancer since 1980, compared with 50 treatments for adult cancers.
• The new personalized medical trial is mainly being funded by parents of children with neuroblastoma and their foundations.
• The trial hopes to develop "real time" processing of information on patient tumors and predict the best drugs for a specific patient.
• Dell's cloud solution will allow TGen to increase its gene sequencing and analysis capacity by 1,200 percent
• The cloud also will allow for better collaboration among physicians, genetic researchers, pharmacists, and computer scientists working on the trial.
• Finally, the cloud will expand the program's participation from a handful of children today to hundreds of children over the next three years.

"Even at this earliest moment in genomics-guided therapy, there is universal recognition that the amount and complexity of data is overwhelming," Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D., president and research director of TGen and VARI, said in a statement.

"Dell's commitment to helping children with cancer, coupled with its expertise in developing cloud-based solutions for health information, will provide great benefit in terms of helping us manage the massively complex data generated by this clinical trial," he continued. "This will help physicians and scientists share information rapidly, and is designed to help us arrive at the optimal treatment decision for each child battling cancer."

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Those looking for Arizona nursing jobs (http://azjobs.cancercenter.com) may want to consider working at one of several hospitals recently recognized by a prominent commission.

The Joint Commission recently released "Improving America's Hospitals," a quality and safety report that lists the top-performing hospitals in the nation. A total of 405 hospitals, or about 14 percent of those accredited by the commission - were recognized on the list.

Four hospitals throughout Arizona were named to the list, including Chandler Regional Medical Center, Payson Regional Medical Center, Phoenix Children's Hospital, and Phoenix VA Health Care System. This recognition speaks volumes to those with nursing jobs Arizona (Click here) at these facilities.

"Today, the public expects transparency in the reporting of performance at the hospitals where they receive care, and The Joint Commission is shining a light on the top performing hospitals that have achieved excellence on a number of vital measures of quality of care," Joint Commission President Mark R. Chassin said in a statement.

"Hospitals that commit themselves to accreditation-related quality improvement efforts such as the use of evidence-based treatments create better outcomes for patients and, ultimately, a healthier nation," he added.

The Joint Commission ranked hospitals based on 22 accountability measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, and children's asthma care.

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Anyone seeking Arizona nursing jobs (Click here) should have some luck during the near future, as the state's education and health services industry was the only one that increased over the year during March.

That month, Arizona's unemployment rate increased from 9.5 percent to 9.6 percent, following an increase from 9.2 percent during February. Despite the latest increase, the state's rate was still slightly lower than the national average at the time of 9.7 percent.

Arizona had a total non-farm employment of 2,386,600 workers during March, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 2,389,900 workers during February and a 3.3 percent decrease from last year.

Four industries managed to see a monthly increase in employment, including: mining and logging by 100 jobs; professional and business services by 1,900 jobs; education and health services by 1,100 jobs; and leisure and hospitality by 1,700 jobs.

Only one industry managed to see a yearly increase in employment. The education and health services industry employed 334,100 workers during March, up from 333,000 workers during February and a 2.3 percent increase from last year.

The construction industry took the biggest hit when compared to last year. The industry employed 112,600 workers during March, down from 115,500 workers during February and a 19.9 percent decrease from last year.

Other industries that saw an over-the-year decrease in employment include:

• Mining and logging by 11.4 percent
• Manufacturing by 7.2 percent
• Trade, transportation and utilities by 1.9 percent
• Information by 7 percent
• Financial activities by 3.6 percent
• Professional and business services by 3.5 percent
• Leisure and hospitality by .6 percent
• Other services by 5.3 percent
• Government by 2.7 percent

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