New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Cohen's article in Medicine titled, "Are COVID-19 mRNA vaccine side effects severe enough to cause missed work? Cross-sectional study of health care-associated workers." The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute...
Remote Teaching During the Pandemic Disadvantages Students in New Jersey’s Lower-Income School Districts.
The rollout of remote teaching in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic was haphazard, under-resourced, inequitably delivered, contributed to student and teacher stress and may exacerbate digital and social inequality, according to a Rutgers study. By analyzing...
Rutgers Researchers Will Provide Antibody Testing to Help Study Long COVID in Children.
Rutgers will provide antibody testing to help determine the incidence and long-term effects of COVID-19 in children as part of an initiative by the National Institutes of Health. The serological testing, which detects the presence of antibodies directed against...
Long-Term Study of Pregnant Women Finds Increasing Chemical Exposure.
Pregnant women are increasingly exposed to plastics, pesticides, and other chemicals that may harm fetal development, said Emily Barrett, an associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Rutgers who coauthored a nationwide study led by researchers at the...
Severe Asthma Patients Often Unresponsive to Conventional Treatments, Scientists Investigate Why?
Patients with the most severe form of asthma produce special substances in their airways when they take medicine during an asthma attack that's blocking the treatment from working. A EurekAlert! report specified that in the study, Rutgers researchers, in collaboration...
Homemade Recipes Aren’t a Safe Solution for Baby Formula Shortage.
As the baby formula shortage causes parents and caregivers to search for solutions to feed their infants, experts at the New Jersey Poison Control Center, based at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, are warning families about misinformation circulating online and on...
Black Adults Raised in the South Have Greater Risk of Lower Cognitive Performance in Later Life.
Black adults who grew up poor and socially disadvantaged in the American South are more likely than White adults with a similar background to suffer cognition problems later in life, according to a Rutgers study. Published in the journal Innovation in Aging, the study...
‘This is a pox virus we know a lot about.’ Infectious disease experts in the region say monkeypox is familiar, preventable.
We’ve been living with COVID-19 for more than two years. And now, another concerning virus has reached the U.S. — 15 cases of monkeypox have been reported, with 250 confirmed cases worldwide. On Monday, the World Health Organization’s Dr. Rosamund Lewis said health...
Drug Combination Reduces the Risk of Asthma Attacks.
A global study of asthma patients by Rutgers and an international team of researchers found a combination of two drugs dramatically reduces the chances of suffering an asthma attack. Results from the clinical trial called MANDALA, published in The New England Journal...
Expanding Opioid Treatment Programs in Prisons Could Lower Overdose Risk After Release.
The expansion of opioid treatment programs in prisons could reduce the risk of overdose and death among ex-inmates, according to a Rutgers study. In a study of 53 individuals released from New Jersey state prisons who self-reported opioid use disorder, researchers...