The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is carrying through on initiatives set by former Vice President Joe Biden, who last year told healthcare experts at the Medical Innovation Summit that innovators can and will defeat cancer.
This year, Veterans Affairs Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Policy and Services Jennifer Lee said the federal agency’s precision medicine and big data initiatives have resulted in the gathering of blood samples of an estimated half million veterans.
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