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Carly Schwartz

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Writer & editor working on first book. Formerly editor in chief at @SFExaminer, earlier @Google & @HuffPost. I don't tweet, but sometimes I lurk.
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My antidote to AI malaise: 9 straight Phish shows at the Las Vegas Sphere

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By Carly Schwartz
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Under the canopy of a massive geodesic dome in the desert, a 500-foot-long hot dog blasted off into space. A sea of revelers, many clad in blue fabric patterned with red doughnuts, flailed around like contortionists to a funky rendition of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” I was among them (sans doughnut outfit), screaming and laughing and crying and moving with the involuntary spasms of someone being exorcized, fully sober but feeling as spacey as the hot dog itself.
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Pembrolizumab and olaparib in homologous-recombination-deficient metastatic pancreatic cancer: the phase 2 POLAR trial

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By Wungki Park, Catherine A. O’Connor, Joanne F. Chou, Marc Hilmi, Zeynep Tarcan, Carly Schwartz, Mary Larsen Verified, Karthigayini Sivaprakasam, Shigeaki Umeda, Maria Perry, Anna Varghese, Fiyinfolu Balogun, Alice Zervoudakis, Seth Katz, Tae-Hyung Kim, Ken Zhao, Allison Richards, Nicolas Lecomte, Daniel Muldoon, Walid K. Chatila, Jessica Yang, Devika Rao Verified, Smita Joshi, Michael Foote, James Harding Verified, Andrew Epstein, David P. Kelsen, Fergus Keane, Joshua D. Schoenfeld, Anupriya Singhal, Erin DiGuglielmo, Chaitanya Bandlamudi, Junmin Song, Haochen Zhang, Maria Teresa Lao, Jerry P Melchor, Ronak Shah, Wenfei Kang, Francesca Mazzoni, Kevin C. Soares, Ernesto Santos, Vineet S. Rolston, Marsha Reyngold, Alice Wei, Murray J. Tipping, Olca Basturk, Michael Berger, Mark Schattner, William R. Jarnagin, Nadeem Riaz, Vinod P. Balachandran, Dana Pe’er, Marinela Capanu, Eileen M. O’Reilly, Ramzi Homsi, Elias Karnoub, Imane El-Dika, Ryan Sugarman, Sree Chalassani, Hulya Sahin Ozkan, Junguei Hong, Agustin III Cardenas, Mark TA Donoghue, Richard Kihn Do, Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue
| Nature Verified
Abstract Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) arising from BRCA1or BRCA2 or PALB2 mutations confers sensitivity to platinum chemotherapy and PARP inhibition in pancreatic cancer (PC) and may enable prolonged disease control with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). The phase 2 POLAR trial evaluated maintenance pembrolizumab plus olaparib following platinum-based chemotherapy in biomarker-stratified metastatic PC.
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I battled depression while working in Big Tech. Opening up about my mental illness to colleagues made me realize I wasn't alone. Original

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By Carly Schwartz
| Business Insider Verified
I still remember how mortified I felt the day I perched across from my boss, the head of editorial at one of the Bay Area's most ubiquitous Big Tech companies, on his stiff red office couch. With sweaty palms and trembling knees, I asked him to grant me a one-month medical leave because my depression had become unbearable. "But…what does that mean?" he asked. "Can you tell me more?" I struggled to find the words. "It's hard to explain," I eventually said. "I just don't have any energy. To do anything.
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