NEWS
OPINION: There’s a social isolation epidemic. But it can be fixed.
The author of this opinion column wants policymakers across the board to think and act broadly to reverse the tide of social isolation and build social connected communities. Read the Full Article.
Is It Time to Ditch Those Cloth Masks for Something Better?
The CDC upgraded its guidance acknowledging that cloth masks are not as effective as surgical and N95 masks to protect against COVID-19 as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to drive a record-breaking number of cases across the country. Rutgers...
OPINION: Public health is missing crucial data on LGBTQIA+ people. It’s not hard to collect
Little is known about how LGBTQIA+ people are being affected by the pandemic because few public health departments are collecting and reporting this information. The author provides information on why sexual orientation and gender identity data be collected. Read the...
Why don’t we treat omicron like a bad cold? Well, it’s more complicated than that.
The COVID-19 patients continue to stream into Holy Name, just as they have for the past month. They’re not as sick on average as they were in earlier waves of the pandemic. But they keep coming, some struggling to breathe and further straining an already exhausted...
Health care support workers have been essential yet unappreciated in pandemic, study says.
An unusual study of the COVID pandemic’s impact on the work and personal lives of an often-overlooked group of health care workers has yielded lessons about the stresses that drive them out of the workforce, their attitudes toward vaccination and testing, and the...
As COVID-19 persists, change in thinking might be near
Medical community weighs what ‘living with’ COVID-19 would mean Unlike the flu, COVID-19 is not currently considered endemic in the U.S., meaning a manageable disease that always causes a certain amount of sickness, perhaps spiking at times, and is confined to one or...
NSF Hub, with NJIT as Member, Now Taking Applications to Commercialize Research.
Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which...
Rutgers Launches All of Us Research Program Providing Researchers with Access to National Institutes of Health Diverse Biomedical Database.
As part of the university’s continued commitment to equipping its researchers with valuable tools to advance their investigations, Rutgers senior vice president for research, Michael E. Zwick, PhD, announces new access to the All of Us Researchers Workbench of the...