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Telehealth’s Limits: Battle Over State Lines and Licensing Threatens Patients’ Options.
If you live in one state, does it matter that the doctor treating you online is in another? Surprisingly, the answer is yes, and the ability to conduct certain virtual appointments may be nearing an end. Televisits for medical care took off during the worst days of...
Health workers know what good care is. Pandemic burnout is getting in the way.
Many health care workers surveyed say they feel burnt out and that is impacting patient care. The prolonged battle against COVID-19 has left many doctors, nurses, medical assistants, respiratory therapists and others on the front lines of care exhausted and...
How the Pandemic Has Changed Clinical Trials.
Rutgers has pioneered a decentralized approach to clinical trials that is allowing researchers to accelerate the pace of finding cures, recruit lower-income and underrepresented populations that were previously unable to engage in clinical trials and broaden the...
Why the Unvaccinated Are Unvaccinated
Those who remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 say their biggest concern is vaccine safety, according to a survey from a nationwide coalition of university-based researchers. The survey was taken in June before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed the...
Brace yourselves, New Jersey: Another COVID winter is coming.
This spring, as mask policies loosened, indoor dining became socially acceptable and most state-to-state travel bans had been lifted, the coronavirus finish line finally appeared to be in sight. The vaccines had arrived and surely would save us all from the disease,...
RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture Series: Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2
Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 Speaker: Akiko Iwasaki, PhD Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Yale School of Medicine. 12:00 – 1:00pm Thursday, November...
NJ ACTS Special Populations Core 2021 Webinar Series – October 25th
Theory, Methods, and Data Resources for Research onMitigation of Structural Racism and Discrimination in Health Care and Social Policy presented by Olga F. Jarrín Montaner, PhD, RN Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Nursing Director, Community Health & Aging...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read National COVID Cohort Collaborative's article in the JAMA Network titled, "Clinical Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Adults Using Data From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative." As of the middle...