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Commentary: Reimagining Patient-Centered Care During a Pandemic in a Digital World – A Focus on Building Trust for Healing
The authors of this National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine commentary discuss how the need for physical distancing and limits on provider training during COVID-19 require a renewed patient-provider trust relationship within a digital world. Read the...
As more get vaccinated, risks grow for those who don’t.
For eight months, Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration has focused on what seemed at times like an insurmountable achievement: vaccinating 4.7 million residents — or 70% of eligible adults — against the coronavirus. As that goal nears, with more than 4 million residents...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Drs. Horton and Gaur's article in Lupus titled, "Acute respiratory distress syndrome and COVID-19 in a child with systemic lupus erythematosus." We report a 5-year-old child with a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who presented with COVID-19...
Ditching masks can be stressful. Don’t pile on by judging those who still mask up, experts say.
New Jersey is mostly lifting its indoor mask mandate on Friday, a triumphant milestone in the 15-month battle against the coronavirus pandemic, but not everyone is celebrating. That includes some parents of young children not yet eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine and...
These Sisters With Sickle Cell Had Devastating, and Preventable, Strokes
Kyra and Kami never got a simple test that could have protected them. Their story exemplifies the failure to care for people with the disease, most of whom are Black. Kyra, left, and Kami Crawford, of San Antonio, are both living with sickle cell, a common...
Volunteer Firefighters Have Higher Levels of “Forever Chemicals”.
Volunteer firefighters — who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service — have higher levels of “forever chemicals,” per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their bodies than the general public, according to a Rutgers study. The study, which was...
Doctors, nurses will have to complete bias training to help reduce alarming death rate among Black mothers in N.J.
The governor signed a bill into law that would require doctors and nurses who deliver babies to undergo implicit bias training. Doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives will be required to complete the training in order to receive or renew their...
Rutgers OTEC launches ‘seal of approval’ for COVID-safety, worker-conscious restaurants.
Nearly two dozen businesses in New Brunswick have earned the High Road Seal of Approval after completing a workplace health and safety program that included a two-hour virtual training, for which employees were compensated, that addressed health and safety protocols,...