by Pamela Dahlen | Jun 1, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed, temperature and social...
by William Jester | May 30, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized remdesivir for emergency use in seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the experimental drug is another step closer to full approval. That’s when most drugs get price tags. Gilead Sciences, which makes...
by William Jester | May 30, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers has launched a clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of an oral anti-inflammatory drug that could help prevent serious illness and death in early-stage COVID-19 patients. The drug, EDP1815, developed by Evelo Biosciences Inc., will be given to newly...
by Pamela Dahlen | May 27, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton researchers have developed a diagnostic tool to analyze chest X-rays for patterns in diseased lungs. The new tool could give doctors valuable information about a patient’s condition, quickly and cheaply, at the point of...
by William Jester | May 27, 2020 | Community, Covid, News
New York Knicks fans are used to seeing Tara Rappleyea on centercourt, but now she’s wearing a different kind of uniform. The 27-year-old is a dancer for the Knicks City Dancers — and a nurse at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in the intensive care unit...
