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Schools embrace social and emotional learning to help ‘overwhelmed’ students
In a school district in Michigan, students in every grade are taught how thoughts, feelings and behaviors are linked and how learning how to control and reframe thoughts can lead to more positive outcomes. The program includes more intensive lessons for kids...
I’m vaccinated but got COVID-19 anyway. Now what?
You celebrated Christmas with family and friends, and now you have symptoms of a virus. With news about yet another coronavirus variant, omicron, you’re worried that you have a breakthrough COVID-19 infection. And you might. As of Friday, 104,379 breakthrough...
Rutgers Leads National Collaboration to Study Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 in Children.
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) is projected to receive approximately $30 million, establishing a critical partnership with the larger National Institutes of Health–funded RECOVER Initiative to study long-term and delayed impacts of COVID-19 on...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Reichman's article in Pediatrics titled, "Gestational Age at Term and Educational Outcomes at Age Nine." Extensive research has been conducted to investigate educational outcomes of very preterm infants (<32 weeks), who consistently have been found...
Primary Care as a Common Good – The Prescription for a Healthier and More Equitable Health Care System
At the NJ Health Care Quality Institute’s Winter Conference, Shawna Hudson delivered the keynote address. As one of the authors of the National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine report, Implementing High Quality Primary Care, Hudson discussed the...
David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine Nominations Open!
The National Academy of Medicine is pleased to announce the creation of the David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine.The award is named for David Hamburg, who was President of the Institute of Medicine from 1975-1980,...
Homeless shelters hunker down for winter, anticipate higher demand due to COVID and evictions
As they near two years of hardships brought on by the pandemic, officials at shelters in New Jersey said a dip in temperatures is not the only factor expected to drive up demand this winter. They anticipate more demand for services once residents unable to pay rent...
Rutgers to Test Whether Probiotics Can Increase Immune Protection Against COVID-19.
Rutgers University recently launched a clinical research study to test whether probiotics boost the body’s natural defenses against COVID-19. A group of 54 unvaccinated participants who have had COVID-19 will be randomly assigned to receive either standard-dose or...