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COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Sufferers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
COVID-19 vaccines taken by people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which affects millions worldwide, safely and effectively protects them from the SARS-Cov-2 virus, a Rutgers study finds. The comprehensive review, published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology...
Primary Care Tele-Mentoring Program Model Shows Potential to Lead to Improved Patient Care.
Tele-mentoring for primary care providers was associated with a decrease in hospitalizations for Medicaid patients with diabetes. According to a new study, primary care physicians and nurse practitioners who participated in a Rutgers Project ECHO complex endocrinology...
Op-Ed: Community leaders must shift from “positive adaptation” to the COVID-19 pandemic to taking action and making change.
“As we continue to face challenges and consequences from COVID-19, there is a greater opportunity for leaders at every level to look at the successes, failures and lessons learned. What should we do and how can we use these lessons to define the tangible and...
NJIT-Designed Mobile Medical Unit Deployed In Queens to Tackle Rising COVID Cases.
A mobile medical care unit (M2CU) designed for COVID testing and vaccination is now seeing patients in a part of Queens where the infection rate is more than twice as high as in the rest of the borough. This month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney,...
NJ Transit riders petition for a mask-only car after federal mandate overturned.
After a federal judge in Florida overturned requirements that passengers wear masks onboard trains bus and planes, an NJ Transit commuter is petitioning the agency to give passengers concerned about coronavirus exposure one “mask only” car per train to ride. Commuter...
Pandemic Stalls Pre-Kindergarten Progress, Leading to Sharp Drops in Enrollment and State Spending.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and intensified issues of access to high-quality early childhood education, leading to sharp declines in enrollment and state funding during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the 2021 State of Preschool Yearbook report by the...