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Register now: Open Session on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in Health and Medicine.
The Committee on Creating a Framework for Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in Health and Medicine will host a virtual information-gathering session on August 26th from approximately 9:00 am to noon ET. The session will discuss aligning the development and...
Rutgers study: HPV-related throat cancers are on the rise, and it’s Black and Hispanic men who are more likely to die from the disease.
Black and Hispanic men are dying at higher rates than white men from throat cancer caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), a new Rutgers University study finds, but researchers can’t pinpoint the cause. Notably, despite lower mortality rates among non-Hispanic white...
Only Half of Children With Autism Receive Early Intervention Services
Despite a federal mandate requiring access to early intervention programs (EIP) for children with disabilities, fewer than half of autistic children in four New Jersey counties received services before 36 months of age, according to a Rutgers study. Income and...
More than 5K Americans took their own lives using aid in dying laws, Rutgers study finds.
Nearly 5,400 terminally ill people in the nation have used medical aid in dying laws to obtain prescription drugs to end their lives, a first-of-its kind study led by the Rutgers School of Public Health has found. About 70% of the people who used the law to die over...
A fast, accurate, equipment-free diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
More than two years into the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID—SARS-CoV-2—continues to spread worldwide. Testing for the virus and its variants can help limit transmission and inform treatment decisions, and is therefore an important pillar of the public health...
Granting Temporary Health Care Licenses in Pandemic Expanded Health Access for Public and Maintained Worker Supply for Hospitals.
New Jersey’s effort during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to grant temporary health care practitioner licenses to out-of-state physicians, nurses, psychologists and other licensed workers proved effective, according to an analysis conducted by Rutgers University...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read National COVID Cohort Collaborative's article in medRxiv titled, "Demonstrating an approach for evaluating synthetic geospatial and temporal epidemiologic data utility: Results from analyzing >1.8 million SARS-CoV-2 tests in the United States National...
Rutgers–Camden Launches Certificate Program to Boost Nursing Workforce Amid National Crisis
The Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden will address the national shortage of qualified nurse educators with the launch of a new certificate program next month. Applying the latest methodologies and evidence-based practices, the Post-Master’s Nurse Educator Certificate...