NJ Advance Media has launched a daily coronavirus question, a service in which our reporters provide answers to commonly asked questions about the epidemic that has hit hard in New Jersey.Today’s coronavirus question is answered by Martin Blaser, director of Rutgers’...
In Botswana, a democratic nation in southern Africa with a population of about 2.3 million, a stark lack of resources exists for cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. “Cancer in Botswana is about where HIV/AIDS was over 20 years ago. It’s on the upward slope...
On August 3, epidemiologist and Rutgers School of Public Health dean Perry N. Halkitis appeared on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront nightly news program and talked about the increasing number of coronavirus cases in New Jersey and around the country. He said that New...
The coronavirus pandemic has stress-tested the world. Beyond challenging human fortitude, national health services and international rivalries, it has forced a series of moral choices. Many have provoked impassioned disagreement — over whether governments can force...
Mangala Narasimhan, an intensive-care-unit doctor, started feeling impatient soon after the start of a meeting she attended at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on May 13. She wanted to get back to the unit, but instead she was sitting in a conference room with about...
