Primary Care Tele-Mentoring Program Model Shows Potential to Lead to Improved Patient Care.
Tele-mentoring for primary care providers was associated with a decrease in hospitalizations for Medicaid patients with diabetes. According to a new study, primary care physicians and nurse practitioners who participated in a Rutgers Project ECHO complex endocrinology...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Hudson's article in Cancer Causes & Control titled, "Development of a text message-based intervention for follow-up colposcopy among predominately underserved Black and Hispanic/Latinx women." Despite significant decreases in cervical cancer...
Op-Ed: Community leaders must shift from “positive adaptation” to the COVID-19 pandemic to taking action and making change.
“As we continue to face challenges and consequences from COVID-19, there is a greater opportunity for leaders at every level to look at the successes, failures and lessons learned. What should we do and how can we use these lessons to define the tangible and...
NJIT-Designed Mobile Medical Unit Deployed In Queens to Tackle Rising COVID Cases.
A mobile medical care unit (M2CU) designed for COVID testing and vaccination is now seeing patients in a part of Queens where the infection rate is more than twice as high as in the rest of the borough. This month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney,...
NJ Transit riders petition for a mask-only car after federal mandate overturned.
After a federal judge in Florida overturned requirements that passengers wear masks onboard trains bus and planes, an NJ Transit commuter is petitioning the agency to give passengers concerned about coronavirus exposure one “mask only” car per train to ride. Commuter...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Ghaddar's article in Nucleic Acids Research titled, "Reconstructing physical cell interaction networks from single-cell data using Neighbor-seq." The spatial context of cells in a tissue and their resulting cell–cell communications influence numerous...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Panettieri's article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, "Albuterol-Budesonide Fixed-Dose Combination Rescue Inhaler for Asthma." Asthma is a heterogeneous disease that manifests as variable airflow obstruction with recurring symptoms driven...
Pandemic Stalls Pre-Kindergarten Progress, Leading to Sharp Drops in Enrollment and State Spending.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and intensified issues of access to high-quality early childhood education, leading to sharp declines in enrollment and state funding during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the 2021 State of Preschool Yearbook report by the...
The Race to Unravel COVID’s Hidden Link to Alzheimer.
As the pandemic rages on across the globe, scientists have started identifying a chilling pattern: An estimated one-third of people infected with COVID-19 develop neurological symptoms including strokes, headaches, and disturbed consciousness. In some brains, COVID...
Brain Cell Insight Could Lead to New Treatments for Neurological-Based Diseases.
New research may help scientists locate immature cells in the central nervous system that could shed light on the causes of neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis—an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and nervous system—and allow for the development...