About one in five health care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the health-care sector has lost nearly half a million workers since February...
The COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed major health issues that still impact New Jersey, putting things like HIV prevention on the back burner for public attention. But urban parts of the state like Essex and Hudson counties continue to see relatively high rates of...
School nurses, who were already stretched thin before the pandemic, say that they are overworked and overwhelmed. Even before the pandemic hit, the job of a school nurse extended far beyond tending to playground scrapes. School nurses manage chronic conditions, like...
Rutgers researchers studying COVID-19 have created a new way to deliver DNA molecules into skin cells, using a suction technique similar to the ancient healing practice of cupping that increases blood circulation and promotes healing. The study appears in the...
An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and a more dangerous drug supply. Read the Full Article.
