by William Jester | May 12, 2020 | Community, News
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended didactic and clinical education for PA faculty and students. But the public health nature of this crisis does present unique opportunities for our clinical year students, through innovative elective rotations helping their local...
by William Jester | May 12, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
New Jersey governor Murphy also announced the state is allocating $6 million in federal funding to Rutgers University to boost its ability to produce its rapid saliva tests from 10,000 tests a day to 50,000 tests a day within the next six to eight weeks. Expanding...
by William Jester | May 12, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers University has launched a clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of a new drug that could help prevent serious illness and death in early-stage COVID-19 patients. The drug is called EDP1815. It is administered orally, and is said to be...
by William Jester | May 11, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
In a Rose Garden briefing Tuesday President Donald Trump touted a potential new way of testing for the novel coronavirus could be safer for suspected coronavirus patients and health care workers and help alleviate the backlog in hard-hit cities — spit. The Food...
by William Jester | May 10, 2020 | Covid, News
The NSF’s Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program funds proposals that require quick-response research on disasters and unanticipated events. What the researchers find could help inform the design of campaigns to enhance communication of accurate information and...