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All 8 Members of This Family Caught COVID-19 After One Person Gave an Elderly Friend a Car Ride
A New Jersey nurse has a warning for anyone not taking COVID-19 seriously: "You can't let your guard down for one second." Sofia Burke, who has cared for many COVID-19 patients at the North Haledon nursing home, knows what it's like to be blindsided by the...
More Young Adults Are Thinking About Suicide and Death, National Survey Finds
More than one-third of young adults in the United States report having thoughts of death and suicide, while nearly half show at least moderate symptoms of depression, according to a nationwide survey led by researchers from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Harvard...
FDA will likely approve Moderna’s vaccine quickly: Trial supervisor at Rutgers
Moderna vaccine trial supervisor at Rutgers and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Professor Dr. Reynold Panettieri explains how the Moderna vaccine works in the human body and its possible side effects. To watch the interview.
Howard University President And Bristol Myers Squibb CEO: Achieving Healthcare Equity Means Changing The Way People Think
Howard University president Wayne A. I. Frederick and Bristol Myers Squibb Chairman and CEO Giovanni Caforio represent vastly different sectors in healthcare. But when it comes to identifying how to eradicate the industry’s equity problem—exacerbated by an ongoing...
Rutgers Recruiting Participants for Johnson & Johnson Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial
Rutgers University is a clinical trial site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s phase 3 clinical research study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Rutgers will enroll as many as 2,000...
New At-Home Covid Test Gets Green Light From F.D.A.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an emergency authorization for the country’s first coronavirus test that can run from start to finish at home without the need for a prescription. People as young as 2 years old are cleared to use the test, which...
NIH’s All of Us Research Program returns first genetic results to participants
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has begun to return genetic results to participants who have donated biosamples for research.This reflects the program’s priority to give back information to its research volunteers. Read the Full...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Panettieri's article in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology titled, "Asthma and COVID: What Are the Important Questions?" The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global crisis that has led to substantial morbidity and mortality and has...