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Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core 2022 Seminar Series: June 14, 2022
Using technology to engage Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer survivors in health interventions Presented By: Katie Devine, PhD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics Chief Section of Pediatric Population Science, Outcomes, and Disparities Research Division of...
Rutgers Pair Creates Monitoring Toolkit to Speed Production of Biologic Drugs.
Two Rutgers engineers specializing in the process of making drugs derived from living organisms have created an analytical tool they expect will accelerate the discovery and production of biologic drugs that are often at the cutting edge of biomedical research. In an...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Cohen's article in Medicine titled, "Are COVID-19 mRNA vaccine side effects severe enough to cause missed work? Cross-sectional study of health care-associated workers." The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute...
Remote Teaching During the Pandemic Disadvantages Students in New Jersey’s Lower-Income School Districts.
The rollout of remote teaching in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic was haphazard, under-resourced, inequitably delivered, contributed to student and teacher stress and may exacerbate digital and social inequality, according to a Rutgers study. By analyzing...
Rutgers Researchers Will Provide Antibody Testing to Help Study Long COVID in Children.
Rutgers will provide antibody testing to help determine the incidence and long-term effects of COVID-19 in children as part of an initiative by the National Institutes of Health. The serological testing, which detects the presence of antibodies directed against...
Long-Term Study of Pregnant Women Finds Increasing Chemical Exposure.
Pregnant women are increasingly exposed to plastics, pesticides, and other chemicals that may harm fetal development, said Emily Barrett, an associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Rutgers who coauthored a nationwide study led by researchers at the...
Severe Asthma Patients Often Unresponsive to Conventional Treatments, Scientists Investigate Why?
Patients with the most severe form of asthma produce special substances in their airways when they take medicine during an asthma attack that's blocking the treatment from working. A EurekAlert! report specified that in the study, Rutgers researchers, in collaboration...
Homemade Recipes Aren’t a Safe Solution for Baby Formula Shortage.
As the baby formula shortage causes parents and caregivers to search for solutions to feed their infants, experts at the New Jersey Poison Control Center, based at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, are warning families about misinformation circulating online and on...