How we can help children overcome adversity

Five questions with Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the Rutgers Institute for Health, who has studied how to help children overcome adversity. Fostering a strong relationship between children and their caregivers and, more broadly, with their community can help them...

How the Pandemic Impacted America’s Youth Mental Health Crisis.

Even as the need for quality mental health care has climbed sharply among young people in recent years, access to services has gone in the other direction. A 2019 study found that of the 7.7 million children and teens in the U.S. with at least one treatable mental...

Can I Get the Flu From Touching Surfaces? Rutgers Researcher Says No.

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus was everywhere – stuck to our cell phone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our cereal boxes. Except that it wasn’t. Despite public health guidance suggesting surfaces...

New NJACTS Publication

Please read Dr. Peck’s article in the Annals of Surgery Open: Perspectives on Surgical History, Education, and Clinical Approaches titled, “Use of a New Prevention Model in Acute Care Surgery: A Population Approach to Preventing Emergency Surgical...