The latest plan to reduce New Jersey’s stubbornly high death rate among Black women in childbirth and the year afterward calls for diversifying the workforce that cares for pregnant and post-partum women and changing payment incentives. Read the Full Article.
A new federal report found that fatal overdoses jumped 44 percent among Black people, twice the increase among white people, from 2019 to the end of 2020. Read the Full Article.
Rutgers will conduct the largest and most comprehensive study of children at high risk of developing a life-threatening complication of Type 1 diabetes with funding from JDRF, the leading global Type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization. The goal of...
Some two-thirds of the world could starve to death in the event of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States, according to a Rutgers University-led study published Monday. Nuclear conflict would lead to “catastrophic” disruptions in food supplies, as...
Kids face tough odds in this NJ county. These adults are trying to improve their chances. It’s not easy being a kid in Cumberland County and statistics from the annual Kids Count report, the Census and poverty surveys tell part of the story. The median income for...
