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 26, 2023 | Community, News
Strong neighborhood connections reduced the negative impact of living alone on the death rates of older Chinese Americans, according to Rutgers researchers. The study, published in Social Science & Medicine, examined if neighborhood cohesion among Chinese...
by William Jester | Jan 25, 2023 | Community, News
New Jerseyans largely support expanding Medicare to provide basic health care coverage to every U.S. resident, regardless of age or employment status, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. The latest poll finds: Seventy-one percent of New Jersey residents support to...
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....
by William Jester | Jan 23, 2023 | Community, News
A Rutgers analysis of U.S. stroke deaths from 1975 to 2019 has found both a dramatic decline and the potential for an impactful resurgence. Stroke mortality (per 100,0000) plummeted from 88 to 31 for women and 112 to 39 for men between 1975 and 2019 in the United...
