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Gene hunters turn up new clues to help explain why Covid-19 hits some people so hard
An international effort has revealed that an individual’s genetic inheritance can indeed influence their risk of infection and the severity of disease. Co-authors reported in Nature that more than a dozen parts of the human genome were linked with either enhanced...
Catt Sadler says she has COVID after getting vaccinated. Experts explain ‘rare’ breakthrough infections
Catt Sadler shared surprising news with fans on Tuesday: She has a breakthrough COVID-19 infection — and she's stressing the importance of getting vaccinated against the virus. The entertainment reporter, who said she's fully vaccinated, revealed her diagnosis on...
Heat waves are dangerous. Isolation and inequality make them deadly.
Hot climate + cold society = formula for disaster. A decades-old body of research has established that extreme heat hits low-income neighborhoods and communities of color the hardest. They are disproportionately likely to live in buildings with poor ventilation and...
New App Aims to Improve Odds for Expectant Mothers and Babies.
Growing up the daughter of an emergency room pediatrician and a registered nurse, Zoe Reich thought she understood as a person of color the extent that systematic racism led to health disparities. But it wasn’t until she was a student at the Rutgers-New Brunswick...
Register for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Listening Session on Aug. 4
NIH and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are organizing a series of publicly broadcast listening sessions to get feedback from patient advocacy groups, industry leaders, scientific professional organizations and other stakeholders to contribute...
Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion
A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded. Read the Full Article.
Increased Physical Contact Does Not Infer Stronger Social Support, Data Indicates
While Americans try to get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the country for more than a year, a new study found that unemployed, less educated and lower socioeconomic individuals do not have the support of family and friends that they need...
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...