Source: CentralJersey.com After his performance at the Count Basie Theater on April 22, actor and comedian Tracy Morgan presented his annual Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation Nursing to health care professional Pamela Ogarek, RN, who has worked in the brain trauma Unit at Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute since 1997. Ogarek began her career […]
Sources: RLS Media During National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW), April 24 to 30, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) is joining other healthcare organizations in highlighting the importance of protecting infants and young children from vaccine-preventable diseases. A primary focus of NIIW is ensuring children are up-to-date on their routinely recommended vaccinations, especially since […]
Sources: WRAT.com; NewJersey.News12.com Not only is weed officially legal in the great state of New Jersey, but finally, you can buy it legally in Jersey, too! One rule to remember is that while it is now legal to have up to six ounces of marijuana on your person…you can only buy up to one ounce […]
Autism Awareness and Acceptance: The Center For Autism · Peak Center For Autism · Autism Speaks New Jersey · POAC Autism Services · Oasis Theraputic Life Centers · NJ Dept. Health By Julie Mower, M.A.Ed., Executive Director: The Phoenix Center, Nutley NJ One in 44 youth nationwide live with autism; in New Jersey, the rate […]
Source: New York Times Ever since Medicare proposed to sharply limit coverage of the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, the agency has been deluged with impassioned pleas. Groups representing patients insisted the federal insurance program pay for the drug. Many Alzheimer’s experts and doctors cautioned against broadly covering a treatment that has uncertain benefit and serious […]
Sources: Essex County Council for Young Children; New Jersey Patch BBs and gel-like pellets being fired at passing cars and pedestrians are causing concern in New Jersey communities. The incidents sound similar to the Orbeez Challenge on TikTok in which frozen jelly-like balls are fired from a moving vehicle at pedestrians. The trend involves using […]