by William Jester | Dec 7, 2020 | Community, News
The Rutgers School of Public Health received a $1.5 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to support cancer research for volunteer firefighters. The funding will enhance research already being done in collaboration with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New...
by William Jester | Dec 6, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
New Jersey has been hit hard by COVID-19, and more challenges loom as coronavirus cases are climbing nationwide. While no one is immune to the pandemic and its related hardships, low-income and minority communities are disproportionately suffering in many...
by William Jester | Dec 5, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Current reductions in these common respiratory infections, however, may merely postpone the incidence of future outbreaks, according to a study by Princeton University researchers published Nov. 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Declines in...
by William Jester | Dec 5, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Citing statistical models, Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine said Monday the state could run out of ICU beds within a week. One of those models, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, estimates that will...
by William Jester | Dec 4, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Support staff and Black and Latinx hospital employees with and without patient care responsibilities are at highest risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care settings, a Rutgers study found. After screening 3,904 employees and clinicians at a New Jersey hospital...
