Intimate Partner Violence Among Some LBGT Couples Increased During Pandemic.
More than 18 percent of previously abused participants in an online survey of LBGT residents in the United States reported increased instances of intimate partner violence during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers from Rutgers and other...
How Pharmacy Work Stopped Being So Great
Two years of economic recovery brought strong gains to workers at the top and the bottom, but headwinds for those in between. Consider the pharmacist. Read the Full Article.
Protein That Could Prevent Chemical Warfare Attack Created at Rutgers.
A team that includes Rutgers scientists has designed a synthetic protein that quickly detects molecules of a deadly nerve agent that has been classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction and could be used in a chemical warfare attack. This...
Can I get a flu shot and COVID booster shot at the same time?
Flu season is quickly approaching, and the updated bivalent COVID-19 boosters have been released across the country and in New Jersey. Considering both of those events taking place, you are probably wondering if it is safe to get your annual flu shot and the updated...
CDC Reports Rise in Hospitalizations of Children With Respiratory Virus Associated With Rare Polio-Like Illness.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory about an increase in children being hospitalized with severe respiratory illness who also tested positive for the rhinovirus or enterovirus EV-D68. That particular enterovirus has been...
How the Pandemic Has Impacted Children’s Learning.
September is here and family households are abuzz with getting back to school for the fall. And despite the ever-lingering presence of COVID-19 in our lives, most children are going back to school in person and unmasked, restoring some sense of normalcy to the fall...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Mezhericher's article in Physical Review Fluids titled, "Possible, impossible, and expected diameters and production rates of droplets in aerosols and sprays." Disintegration of liquids into drops plays a central role in many natural processes as well...
This group’s wiped out $6.7 billion in medical debt, and it’s just getting started
RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization, has boomed during the pandemic, freeing patients of medical debt, thousands of people at a time. Its novel approach involves buying bundles of delinquent hospital bills — debts incurred by low-income patients — and then...
More possible entry points for COVID spike protein identified by Princeton scientists.
One of the essential factors the COVID-19 virus needs to enter a host is a receptor on a human cell — a place where the universally recognized spike protein can latch onto the cell surface, pierce it, disgorge its infectious contents, and replicate. Without a...
OPINION: Ending free meals in schools is a mistake
Directors with the Rutgers Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health highlight the need for continued universal free school meals as essential for NJ’s children. Read the Full Article.