Rutgers School of Public Health

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention indicated the probability of COVID spread within a home is about 50%, according to one professor who authored a report on this type of transmission.

"Some workers got tested every week, paid by their employers, while others struggled to get a testing place," said first author Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Public Health.

More than a year since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there are still plenty of unanswered questions about the virus that causes COVID-19, including the potential impact of present and future variants of the disease.

"We know that there are people who are asymptomatic but actually have the virus — we're quantifying that in this study," said Dr. Henry Raymond, associate professor and epidemiologist at Rutgers School of Public Health.

Right now, comfort from family members and conversations about death and dying can come only from phone or video calls, not a gaze into a patient's eye or the touch of a hand.

"This is a period of intense stress for a lot of reasons."

Many inmates in state prison facilities want to quit smoking, new research finds, but chances are they can't easily do it on their own.

Down from 1,722 in the middle of last decade, New Jersey saw 1,048 new HIV diagnoses in 2017.

Research out of Rutgers finds the health outcomes of families are linked heavily to parents' education level, and not how much money they're bringing in.

As another big storm hits New Jersey, with the possibility of trees falling and causing damage, a new Rutgers study done after Superstorm Sandy underscores the importance of safety training and protective equipment for tree-care workers.