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If You’re Feeling Impulsive Right Now, You’re Not Alone
When the future is uncertain, people have been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic by acting more recklessly in the present—even if they're not leaving their homes to do it. Over the last two months, since the coronavirus pandemic thrust the world into a collective...
NJ ACTS Opportunity for Early Stage Investors
Are you an early stage investigator who conducts complementary and integrative health research in any of the priority research areas of the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)? Do you have a D.A.O.M., D.C., D.O., D.P.T., and/or N.D....
During the Pandemic, How Safe Is the Great American Summer Vacation?
Is there any way you can get out of your house and have a little bit of fun, without running a huge risk of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus? Experts say yes -- if you maintain the social distancing rules that everyone absorbed during the nationwide lockdown. The...
Long and Winding Road: What Happens After You “RECOVER” from COVID-19? Doctors and Patients Reveal
Shana*, a critical care nurse in Pennsylvania, went for a 8.5-mile run two days before she tested positive for Covid-19. She was running as many as 20 miles per week before she came down with the illness that has now sickened more than 1.61 million in the United...
Newark Fights Coronavirus Spread With Nearly 400 Contact-Tracing Volunteers
For Christopher Minick, the hardest part of being a contact tracer is talking to people about the loved ones they lost to Covid-19. The 24-year-old student at the Rutgers School of Public Health is one of roughly 400 volunteers in Newark, N.J.’s new contact-tracing...
NJ ACTS TL1 Fellowship Application Program 2020
NJ ACTS TL1 Fellowship Application Program 2020 will equips its Fellows with enhanced knowledge, skills, and abilities that provide a broad introduction to clinical and translational research concurrent with their current pre- or postdoctoral research program. Letters...
GMaP Implementation Science Webinar
Please join us Monday June, 29th from 3-4PM and learn more about NCI Implementation Science Programs, Funding Opportunities, and Researcher Experiences! Gila Neta, PhD, MPP Program Officer, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences...
Coronavirus concerns show increased need, demand for home care, experts say
For people recovering from COVID-19, home care can be both essential and elaborate, involving a health care professional who provides additional oxygen, monitors vital signs, administers medication and helps with daily tasks such as eating, bathing and getting in and...