Sources: PBS Newshour; U. of Missouri Health Care According to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control (CDC), vaccines for COVID-19 are both safe and effective for pregnant people and those who plan to become pregnant, according to all of the data gathered by researchers so far. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially recommended […]
Source: InsiderNJ.com; Rock The Farm NJ U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today announced the awarding of $8,025,816 in funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) to […]
Source: Columbia University Irving Medical Center 9/11 changed Americans’ perceptions about their sense of security, the threat of terrorism, and their place in the world, and the attack’s impact on the mental health of New Yorkers was unprecedented. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were affected because they were in Lower Manhattan at the time, […]
Neuromuscular Diseases Awareness: Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. · “Pipeline Of Promise” Treatments: Spinal Muscular Atrophy · Pompe Disease · MDA Let’s Play Gaming (Twitch.tv) · Donate The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval of risdiplam (Evrysdi) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in pediatric and adult patients. It is the third disease-modifying […]
Source: NJ.com Logan Hollar transferred to Rutgers University in 2020 spending his junior year taking virtual classes from his Sandyston home in Sussex County, more than 70 miles away from the New Brunswick campus. For this school year, as a senior, the psychology major decided to sign up for all virtual classes. He hasn’t taken, […]
Source: NJ.com COVID-19 booster shots will be available in New Jersey in three weeks. At least 2 million people will be eligible for the booster, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy said, “almost certainly” requiring the state to reestablish its mega sites to inject such a high volume of people in just a few months. With […]