by William Jester | Jul 20, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
One way to quickly see if a coronavirus vaccine works would be to immunize healthy people and then deliberately expose them to the virus, some researchers are suggesting. Proponents say this strategy, called a human challenge trial, could save time because rather than...
by William Jester | Jul 18, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Coronavirus risk among asthma patients: Apart from what one would believe, patients with asthma are not in the high risk category for contracting the novel Coronavirus. A study conducted by researchers of Rutgers University in New Jersey has found out that asthmatic...
by William Jester | Jul 17, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
“Minority communities are battling two insidious infections in our country: the coronavirus, and racism,” writes Tamara Horn in an NJ.com op-ed. Horn, the director of community outreach for Rutgers’ Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research,...
by William Jester | Jul 16, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
In early March, as the coronavirus was spreading across the United States and testing capacity was already a problem, Bill Phillips had an idea. Phillips is the chief operating officer of a medical device company, Spectrum Solutions, that provides saliva test kits for...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jul 15, 2020 | Community
On Wednesday, July 29th, Rutgers-GSAPP will present its Beautiful Mind Summit (BMS) for thousands of attendees via a cutting-edge virtual experience. The Summit will create a state-of-the-art platform for discussing mental health issues without stigmas and feature...
