Source: NJTV Online Michael Maron, the president and CEO of Holy Name Medical Center — the Teaneck hospital that saw the first wave of New Jersey’s coronavirus outbreak — tested positive for COVID-19 and infected his wife and two sons. “That was horrifying for me — guilt and a burden that I’ll have to bear […]
Organ/Tissue Donor Awareness: Donate Life New Jersey · NJ Sharing Network (North/Central NJ) · Gift Of Life Donor Program (South NJ) Organ/Tissue Donation Info · Online Donor Registration · Living Donors · Donating Financially NJ Sharing Network’s goal is to educate New Jersey residents about the life-saving benefits of organ and tissue donation and transplantation, […]
Source: NorthJersey.com St. Joseph’s Health plans to open 154 acute-care medical beds at the former Barnert Hospital building in Paterson in two weeks in an effort to meet the anticipated surge of patients from the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement comes two days after Gov. Phil Murphy warned that New Jersey hospitals could run out of […]
Sources: RLS Media; Special Olympics New Jersey The Federal Food and Drug Administration has approved a device that that looks to be the fastest yet in terms of producing results, and that can do so on the spot right at point-of-care without requiring a round trip to a lab to detect COVID-19. According to FDA […]
Trisomy Awareness Month · Trisomy 15: Prader-Willi Syndrome · Angelman Syndrome · Trisomy.org Source: WiseGeek.com Trisomy is an abnormality in which an organism has the wrong number of chromosomes. A normal human will have 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs, with each parent contributing 23 chromosomes. When trisomy occurs, a child is born with three instances […]
Sources: Q1043.iHeart.com; BigThink.com Led by state First Lady Tammy Murphy, and joined by Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Charlie Puth Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Danny DeVito, Whoopi Goldberg and soccer star Carli Lloyd, the NJ Pandemic Relief Fund (NJPRF.org) is calling for donations to fight the medical, social and economic impact of COVID-19 in the […]