Rutgers researchers made a startling discovery when the pandemic curtailed routine medical visits: Going virtual to test cutting-edge therapies reached more diverse patients. Clinical trials test the effectiveness and safety of new medications or devices. Yet the vast...
Medical facilities across New Jersey and the U.S. are eager — and even desperate — for more nurses. It’s a problem long in the making and pushed to the brink by the coronavirus pandemic, which has left medical workers burned out and traumatized after two harrowing...
Despite all the talk of returning to normalcy, covid is still a global public health emergency. Some countries are seeing a spike in cases even as they’ve fallen in the United States. So time for Congress to confront the next big challenge of this pandemic:...
Improving financial literacy seen as help to closing economic gaps New Jersey often ranks among the states where the gap between rich and poor has grown the widest, according to U.S. census data, and while it’s not a panacea, academic studies have shown that improving...
As a young Black nurse, Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins saw it all. Staffers of color denied leadership roles and promotions, and believing that they were being held to higher standards. The automatic assumption that they had a lesser education. Patients assuming that a...
