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Keeping COVID-19 outside of summer camps is a nearly impossible challenge
As summer camps debated whether and how to operate during the coronavirus pandemic this spring, Kanakuk Kamps, a prominent network of Christian sports camps in Missouri, announced that its five overnight camps would open to over 20,000 kids starting May 30. "Our...
Healthier School Food and Physical Activity Environment Matter for Childhood Obesity
School food choices and number of physical activity facilities are associated with students’ BMI, Rutgers study finds. Students at elementary and secondary schools that offer healthier food offerings and more opportunities for physical activities have a healthier body...
Rutgers-Newark Program Aids City’s Contact Tracing Efforts
Faculty, students, and alumni at the School of Arts & Sciences-Newark (SASN) have found many ways to be of service during the current Covid-19 pandemic, from 3D-printing masks for frontline healthcare workers to delivering food to the elderly and needy. Recently...
National Minority Health Awareness Month
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. OMH will highlight resources to support mental and emotional wellbeing while following the social distancing guidelines to stop the spread of COVID-19. Read more.
People with asthma don’t appear to be at greater risk for severe COVID-19, study shows
People with asthma do not appear to be at higher risk of death or serious illness from coronavirus, according to researchers. Doctors at Rutgers University said they found limited evidence to explain why those with the lung condition were no worse off. The team called...
Researchers Debate Infecting People on Purpose to Test Coronavirus Vaccines
One way to quickly see if a coronavirus vaccine works would be to immunize healthy people and then deliberately expose them to the virus, some researchers are suggesting. Proponents say this strategy, called a human challenge trial, could save time because rather than...
Increased COVID-19 risk in asthma patients? Here is what this study suggests
Coronavirus risk among asthma patients: Apart from what one would believe, patients with asthma are not in the high risk category for contracting the novel Coronavirus. A study conducted by researchers of Rutgers University in New Jersey has found out that asthmatic...
Fighting COVID-19 must include fighting racism
“Minority communities are battling two insidious infections in our country: the coronavirus, and racism,” writes Tamara Horn in an NJ.com op-ed. Horn, the director of community outreach for Rutgers' Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, argues...