by Pamela Dahlen | Feb 8, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
NJ legislation would cement a change that began with pandemic. Some doctors are strongly opposed At the top of their field, advanced practice nurses in New Jersey are one step closer to full authority in all patient-care decisions, something supporters said is needed...
by William Jester | Feb 4, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
The Rutgers Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases made worldwide news last year when its researchers developed a multivariant COVID-19 test that was faster, easier and cheaper than anything previously available. Now leaders of the institute believe...
by William Jester | Feb 3, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
Patient numbers have likewise grown at the Comprehensive COVID-19 Neurology Care Center of Excellence at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, which treats patients suffering from long COVID. Although the clinic has seen a rise in demand for services, it’s continuing to...
by William Jester | Jan 27, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers will take the lead in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study seeking to define long COVID – a term used to describe lingering COVID-19 symptoms – in children, including its evolution and how often it occurs. The university is recruiting 150 participants...
by William Jester | Jan 24, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
Masking — along with social distancing, hand washing, and other so-called “non-pharmaceutical interventions” (NPIs) — proved very effective at limiting the spread of COVID-19, and simultaneously drove down rates of endemic diseases like colds, flu, RSV and others....
