Rutgers Health News

While social distancing and wearing masks kept last year’s flu season at an all-time low, experts expect flu cases will soar this year as students return to school and employees go back to the office and are urging people to get their flu vaccine to prevent the nation’s health care system from be

Growing up the daughter of an emergency room pediatrician and a registered nurse, Zoe Reich thought she understood as a person of color the extent that systematic racism led to health disparities.

Earlier today, RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, in partnership with the New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO), broke ground on the state’s first

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, and University Hospital, Newark, which serve as teaching hospitals of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, respectiv

As more New Jersey school districts face COVID-19 outbreaks and some are forced to stop in-person classes, many health care experts worry about what to expect as we head into the flu season.

Students preparing to return to school — in-person, remotely or both — are facing stresses unique to the type of learning they will engage in this fall.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread rapidly across many parts of the United States – breaking records for new cases every day – questions loom about what the future will look like.  Martin Blaser, director of Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine and professor o