NEWS
Firearm Exposure Associated With Poorer Health in Communities Around the U.S.
Gun violence is tied to poverty, unemployment, broken families, disengaged youth and racial segregation, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers. Published in the Journal of Urban Health, the study found that people living in...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Enich's article in Preventive Medicine Reports titled, "Overdose education and naloxone distribution program design informed by people who use drugs and naloxone distributors." Overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) programs are highly...
New Red Blood Cell Transfusion Guidelines Recommend an Individualized Approach.
An international panel of experts co-chaired by Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, developed guidelines for new strategies which could help preserve the blood supply and prevent complications that result...
Plastic Use in Agriculture Must be Reduced, According to New Research.
Plastic use in agriculture must be reduced in order to mitigate pollution and prevent toxic chemicals from leaching into the soil and adversely affecting human health, according to a recently published study. “Emerging data on leaching of toxic additives and tiny...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Treitler's article in JAMA Health Forum titled, "Hospital Use and Mortality Among Decarcerated Individuals With Substance Use Disorder After a Large-scale COVID-19 Emergency Prison Release Program." New Jersey enacted the Public Health Emergency Credit...
Narcan, now available without a prescription, can still be hard to get.
Last month, drugstores and pharmacies nationwide began stocking and selling the country’s first over-the-counter version of naloxone, a medication that can stop a potentially fatal overdose from opioids. It’s sold as a nasal spray under the brand name Narcan. Coming...
Lyme disease vaccines are back, one in trials from Pfizer and another in early tests at Penn. But will people get them?
Seamus Naughton Mergner started running a fever one day when he was 3 years old, and he also complained of a stiff neck. His mother, recalling that she had recently removed a tick from his skin, feared that the eight-legged bug had infected the boy with Lyme...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Panettieri's article in JAMA titled, "Abatacept, Cenicriviroc, or Infliximab for Treatment of Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19 Pneumonia A Randomized Clinical Trial." The immunopathology of COVID-19 involves aberrant immune cell function and...