NEWS
A $750 million effort to revolutionize cancer care in N.J. opens next month.
RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, are opening New Jersey’s first freestanding cancer hospital next month. The Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, scheduled to open in...
New study raises alarm over Alzheimer’s blood tests.
Research from Rutgers Health indicates that blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease need to be interpreted with caution—particularly for Black patients. “These tests are currently geared towards primary care physicians and directly to older adults concerned about...
Elevated Serum cAMP Findings May Allow Asthma Diagnosis by Blood Test.
New research has found that cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is highly elevated in the blood of people with asthma, enabling diagnosis and possibly severity determination with a simple blood test. "What we discovered is a specific transporter, a protein on the...
Tariffs could have deep impacts on costs for prescription drugs: What to know.
Business owners and consumers alike are breathing a sigh of relief following news that President Donald Trump paused a wide range of tariffs he had imposed on dozens of nations. It was surprising and welcomed news by Victor Vinhas, who owns and operates Vinhas...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Goldman's article in Applied and Environmental Microbiology titled, "Identification of an antibiotic from an HTS targeting EF-Tu:tRNA interaction: a prospective topical treatment for MRSA skin infections." Because of the urgent need for new antibiotics...
With Spring in Bloom, Here’s How to Navigate Allergies.
If you find yourself wheezing and sneezing now that spring is here, you’re in good company. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in four adults and nearly one in five children experience seasonal allergies. Catherine Monteleone, a...
What Caused COVID-19? What We Do (and Don’t) Know 5 Years Later.
Five years ago today the World Health Organization called COVID-19 a pandemic for the first time. Much about the coronavirus was a mystery then – how exactly it spread, if we could treat it and whether we could prevent it. While the answers to those questions...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core COVID-19 Resources
The situation around the current spread of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. We have compiled resource links for the general community highlighting local resources across New Jersey, ways to get involved, and mental and physical wellness. Visit our COVID-19 page for...