Gaps plague Hispanic maternity data. N.J. officials say better data would mean better outcomes.
Maternal health experts in New Jersey agree that efforts to gather data on Hispanic moms and infants has been a struggle across the state and nation. Read the Full Article.
As COVID evolves from pandemic to endemic in NJ, how will our lives change?
On March 4, 2020, a 32-year-old physician’s assistant from Fort Lee became the first person in New Jersey diagnosed with a disease that would claim more than 33,000 lives in the state, upend its economy, disrupt the education of millions of its children and sorely...
How Worried Should We Be About The New COVID Variant XE?
New COVID variants are like iPhone software updates: They all seem super similar, and most of us don’t keep up with them anymore. So in case you didn’t get the memo, there’s a potentially concerning new variant, Omicron XE, which some fear might be the most contagious...
OPINION: Keep Our New Health Systems
Community health workers, neighborhood clinics, and real-time data bolstered America’s COVID-19 response. They could now form the cornerstone for more equitable health care. According to the authors, principles underlying advancements in public health during COVID-19...
How a state university became a national model for COVID-19 response.
It took less than three weeks from the time the first case of coronavirus emerged in the United States for Rutgers University leaders to prepare its response to what would be one of the worst crises in world history. And it took just another two weeks for it to put...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Kipen's article in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society titled, "Presence of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol in Residences of Adults with COVID-19." Although vaccines are effective at preventing coronavirus disease (COVID-19), uncertainty remains about...
Rutgers Microbiologists’ Research Subject of Feature-Length Documentary
The Invisible Extinction follows pioneering Rutgers researchers Martin Blaser and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello around the globe as they research damage to the human microbiome. Read the Full Article.
NJIT Machine Learning Expert Pan Xu Combats COVID Vaccine Inequity.
An NJIT computer scientist studied COVID vaccine data from Minnesota to design equitable methods of distributing vital resources during any widespread emergency. The resulting algorithm showed that giving everyone equal access to vital resources isn't necessarily the...
People with Multiple Sclerosis Benefit from Telehealth Services.
While many people skipped regular health check-ups during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research indicates that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) used online telehealth services more frequently to keep in contact with their health care providers and were highly...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Bushnell's article in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry titled, "Simultaneous Benzodiazepine and SSRI Initiation in Young People with Anxiety Disorders." Antidepressants are typically recommended as the first-line pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders...