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Rutgers Centers Will Use $2 Million Gift to Combine Efforts to Better Protect Vulnerable Populations.
Senior university officials announced a $2 million gift and the creation of an endowed fund to enable the Rutgers Center on Policing and Rutgers University’s Miller Center on Community Protection and Resilience to combine their efforts to protect vulnerable...
The flu hit N.J. early this year. Has COVID made us more vulnerable?
Flu season has started earlier than normal in New Jersey, further concerning experts that a bad year could be on the way. Respiratory illnesses are already surging across the state as RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), enterovirus and rhinovirus cases have filled...
Rutgers Recruiting Participants for Pfizer COVID-19 Pediatric Bivalent Vaccine Clinical Trial.
Rutgers has been selected as a clinical trial site for the global Pfizer-BioNTech research study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines in children under age 5. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. An's article in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine titled, "Mendelian Randomization Analysis Reveals a Complex Genetic Interplay Among Atopic Dermatitis, Asthma, and GERD." Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition...
New Training Program Addresses Cancer Care Knowledge Gaps in Africa.
In the African country of Botswana, nearly two-thirds of people diagnosed with cancer will die of the disease. The main reason 63 percent of the country’s cancer patients don’t survive is that most aren’t diagnosed until their disease is at an advanced stage, when...
Smoking and Gambling Go ‘Hand in Hand.’ But Maybe Not for Long
The Atlantic City casinos are the last large refuge for smokers in the Northeast. Cigarettes were prohibited during the worst of the pandemic, and now there is a push to make the ban permanent. Read the Full Article
Sociologist Gets NIH Funding to Study Links Between Eviction and Mortality.
A Rutgers University–Newark sociologist has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate the effects of pandemic eviction-prevention policies on individual and community mortality. The project will address critical...
A quarter of children being raised by grandparents face hunger
A new report finds the rate of food insecurity among grandparent-headed households with grandchildren is 60 percent higher than that of all households with children. Food insecurity negatively impacts a child’s ability to learn and grow and has long-term health...