by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 28, 2021 | Community, News
A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded. Read the Full Article.
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 27, 2021 | Community, News
REGISTER NOW! 1st Annual NJ ACTS Symposium: Translational Medicine and Science 9/22 12pm-6pm 9/23 8am-1pm The Symposium brings together the NJ ACTS academic communities of Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT to present the best new clinical and translational research and...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 27, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Black and Hispanic people were especially hard-hit, though improvement is expected in 2021. Life expectancy declined 1.5 years in the United States in 2020 and by twice that much for Black and Hispanic people, largely due to the surge in deaths from COVID-19, federal...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 26, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Please read Dr. Jimenez’ article in JAMA Network titled “Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines”. Key Points Question What are the experiences of Black and Latinx communities during the...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 24, 2021 | Community, News
The author highlights that in modern America, 350,000 people with mental illness are in jails or prisons (often for nuisance crimes that could easily have been avoided had treatment been available); 250,000 of them are homeless; and the average life span of those with...
