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Register for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Listening Session on Aug. 4
NIH and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are organizing a series of publicly broadcast listening sessions to get feedback from patient advocacy groups, industry leaders, scientific professional organizations and other stakeholders to contribute...
Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion
A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded. Read the Full Article.
Increased Physical Contact Does Not Infer Stronger Social Support, Data Indicates
While Americans try to get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the country for more than a year, a new study found that unemployed, less educated and lower socioeconomic individuals do not have the support of family and friends that they need...
NJ ACTS Scientific Symposium Registration and Call for Abstracts
REGISTER NOW! 1st Annual NJ ACTS Symposium: Translational Medicine and Science 9/22 12pm-6pm 9/23 8am-1pm The Symposium brings together the NJ ACTS academic communities of Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT to present the best new clinical and translational research and...
Life expectancy fell by 1.5 years in 2020, mostly due to COVID-19. Here’s what that really means
Black and Hispanic people were especially hard-hit, though improvement is expected in 2021. Life expectancy declined 1.5 years in the United States in 2020 and by twice that much for Black and Hispanic people, largely due to the surge in deaths from COVID-19, federal...
What to Know Now About COVID Breakthrough Cases and the Delta Variant.
About 57% of Americans ages 12 and up have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the CDC, but a small percentage of those people are still testing positive for the virus. We asked Dr. Reynold Panettieri, professor of medicine and pulmonary physician at...
Camden Barbers Become Messengers of COVID-19 Vaccine Importance, Thanks to Innovative Collaboration.
Barbershop owners in Camden – like in many U.S. cities – are known as key influencers in the city, their shops being hubs of community conversation and information. True to form, a group of Camden barbers have now taken on the role of community ambassadors for the...
New NJACTS Publication – NJ HEROES TOO Project
Please read Dr. Jimenez' article in JAMA Network titled "Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines". Key Points Question What are the experiences of Black and Latinx communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and...