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Pathways to Prevention (P2P) Workshop
Pathways to Prevention (P2P) Workshop: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication October 12-14, 2021 (Virtual). Click HERE for more information and to register!
In the same health system, Black patients are prescribed fewer opioids than white patients
Inequities in health care are pervasive, from access to quality of care, and a new study finds that common opioids such as codeine and morphine are more often prescribed to white patients than to Black patients treated within the same health system. The findings...
NJ ACTS Scientific Symposium Registration and Call for Abstracts
REGISTER NOW! 1st Annual NJ ACTS Symposium: Translational Medicine and Science 9/22 12pm-6pm 9/23 8am-1pm The Symposium brings together the NJ ACTS academic communities of Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT to present the best new clinical and translational research and...
In towns with lowest rates, work to spread vaccines is personal
Vaccine ‘ambassadors’ go door to door to combat deep-rooted hesitancy Local-level vaccine “ambassadors” are working with elected officials and local organizations, teams of young people going door to door distributing accurate information about the vaccines and...
Why breakthrough COVID-19 infections don’t mean the vaccine isn’t working.
With more than 161 million people now fully vaccinated in the U.S., experts say we are bound to see reports of breakthrough infections, meaning people test positive for COVID-19 while fully vaccinated. These breakthrough COVID-19 cases aren't proof the vaccines aren't...
The Delta Variant Is the Symptom of a Bigger Threat: Vaccine Refusal
There are almost as many reasons for vaccine hesitancy and refusal as there are unvaccinated Americans. But this problem, not the variant, lies at the root of rising infection rates. America is one of the few countries with enough vaccines at its disposal to protect...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Engel's article in Gene Therapy titled, "Novel tool to quantify with single-cell resolution the number of incoming AAV genomes co-expressed in the mouse nervous system." AAV-based gene therapies are well established to treat inherited and acquired...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...