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New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Panettieri's article in Science Translational Medicine titled, "Steroid-induced fibroblast growth factors drive an epithelial-mesenchymal inflammatory axis in severe asthma." Inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) are the mainstay controller therapy for...
2022 Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium Best Practices to Achieve Health Equity – June 14, 2022 9:00am – 4:00pm, Registration Deadline Extended to June 6th!
Event Venue: President's Tent - 11 Bishop Place, New Brunswick Registration Extended to June 6th! Register HERE! Read more about the event HERE! Keynote Speakers Matthew Kreuter, PhD, MPH Kahn Family Professor and Associate Dean for Public Health Brown School of...
Two-Drug Inhaler Could Reduce Asthma Attacks.
Two drugs are better than one when it comes to stopping asthma attacks in progress, a new clinical trial has found. The study, of more than 3,100 asthma patients, found that a two-drug "rescue" inhaler worked better than a standard inhaler in thwarting severe asthma...
Nursing school enrollments jump. But it’s not nearly enough for an industry in crisis.
Her path into nursing was almost preordained. For Curstine Guevarra, it’s been a calling since childhood. “My parents are nurses. My aunts. My uncles. Their spouses. And everyone else basically related to us are nurses — even my cousins,” the 22-year-old Westwood...
China is obsessed with disinfection against Covid. But is it causing more harm than good?
Hazmat suit-clad workers spraying clouds of disinfectant over city streets, building fronts, park benches and even parcels have become a common sight in pandemic-era China. In Shanghai, the epicenter of the country’s largest outbreak, state media report that thousands...
Our COVID-19 vaccines would not exist without this unsung Princeton technology.
It might not look like much — a plastic box that fits in the hand, with tiny tubes jutting out the top and bottom. Too simple to be cutting edge. Too humble to save so many lives. But for 20 years, researchers in Robert Prud’homme’s lab have fine-tuned this little box...
Untrained Disaster Responders Are More Prone to Suicide Years After World Trade Center Attack.
Construction workers, clean-up staff and other untrained nontraditional emergency employees who assisted in recovery efforts at the World Trade Center in New York following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are more than five times as likely than traditional...
COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Sufferers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
COVID-19 vaccines taken by people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which affects millions worldwide, safely and effectively protects them from the SARS-Cov-2 virus, a Rutgers study finds. The comprehensive review, published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology...