A fast, accurate, equipment-free diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
More than two years into the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID—SARS-CoV-2—continues to spread worldwide. Testing for the virus and its variants can help limit transmission and inform treatment decisions, and is therefore an important pillar of the public health...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read National COVID Cohort Collaborative's article in medRxiv titled, "Demonstrating an approach for evaluating synthetic geospatial and temporal epidemiologic data utility: Results from analyzing >1.8 million SARS-CoV-2 tests in the United States National...
Granting Temporary Health Care Licenses in Pandemic Expanded Health Access for Public and Maintained Worker Supply for Hospitals.
New Jersey’s effort during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to grant temporary health care practitioner licenses to out-of-state physicians, nurses, psychologists and other licensed workers proved effective, according to an analysis conducted by Rutgers University...
Rutgers–Camden Launches Certificate Program to Boost Nursing Workforce Amid National Crisis
The Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden will address the national shortage of qualified nurse educators with the launch of a new certificate program next month. Applying the latest methodologies and evidence-based practices, the Post-Master’s Nurse Educator Certificate...
Could polio be making comeback in Delaware Valley?
The CDC says the discovery of polio in New York City wastewater is the tip of the iceberg. That has many wondering if the contagious virus could also be in the Philadelphia region. Eyewitness News couldn't find one location in the region that is testing wastewater for...
How can NJ cut high death rate among Black mothers in childbirth? This group has a plan
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.
Soaring Overdose Rates in the Pandemic Reflected Widening Racial Disparities
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 Most Comprehensive Study Ever Done of High-Risk Children Newly Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes.
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...
A U.S.-Russia nuclear war could starve 5 billion to death, study says.
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...
‘All of us are living with trauma’
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...