by William Jester | Dec 19, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Holiday traditions are important for everybody. Leslie M. Kantor, chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health, explains some practical steps that people can take to take care of each other while gathering for holidays....
by Pamela Dahlen | Dec 18, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
Vaccination rates are high, but dentists and others not associated with a hospital do not fall under state or federal rules For most dentists in New Jersey and nationwide, COVID-19 vaccination is optional. Private dental practices — along with private doctors’ offices...
by William Jester | Dec 18, 2021 | Community, News
The autism rate among 8-year-old children in the United States is one in 44 and one in 35 in New Jersey, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that included researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. The researchers used a new...
by Pamela Dahlen | Dec 17, 2021 | Community, News
The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents. Vaccine hesitancy is hardly limited to shots against Covid-19. Even the HPV vaccine, which can prevent as many as 90...
by William Jester | Dec 17, 2021 | Community, Covid, News
It’s been two years since the first cases of the coronavirus were detected in China. Since then, the disease has spread around the globe, causing more than 800,000 deaths in the United States and five million deaths worldwide and transforming our lives in...
