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World Trade Center Health Program Still Saves Lives 20 Years Later.
Piscataway firefighter Frank Geffre didn’t think twice when he rushed to the World Trade Center 20 years ago on September 11, 2001, after two planes took down the twin towers, killing nearly 3,000 people in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. Neither did Ellie...
Immune Response to COVID-19 May Be Proportional to Illness Severity, Duration.
People who have had severe or long-lasting cases of COVID-19 are more likely to have high levels of an important antibody needed to fight against future infection, according to a Rutgers study. The findings were published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The...
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. Read the Full Article.
New regional Princeton-led innovation hub to accelerate tech, enhance diversity in entrepreneurship.
The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Northeast Hub is one of five new hubs announced this week in a nationwide NSF-funded network of universities formed to accelerate the economic impact of federally funded research — delivering benefits in health care, energy and the...
Investigation of Hospital Pricing Data Finds Hospitals Charging Patients Vastly Different Amounts for Same Services, Procedures
The New York Times partnered with two University of Maryland-Baltimore County researchers to turn files published by hospitals into a database that showed how much basic medical care costs at 60 major hospitals. Price transparency legislation went into effect Jan 1,...
OPINION: Who Will Take Care of America’s Caregivers?
There are currently around 4.6 million direct care workers in the United States, a category that includes home health care aides, personal aides and nursing assistants. Over the next decade, the demand for these workers will balloon as aging baby boomers require more,...
COVID decimated this N.J. town. After a plea for help, it became a model of vaccination.
The vaccination rate in West New York — an immigrant gateway for more than a century — has reached 73% among those 18 years and older, far higher than other New Jersey cities with comparable demographics and challenges. It is higher than even some leafy suburbs with...
Vaccine stockpiling by nations could lead to increase in COVID-19 cases, novel variant emergence.
The extent of vaccine nationalism, however, may strongly impact global trajectories of COVID-19 case numbers and increase the potential emergence of novel variants, according to a Princeton University and McGill University study published Aug. 17 in the journal...