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Amy Abernethy, M.D., is the latest former government official to join Verily, the Alphabet subsidiary announced Thursday.
It was only a few months ago that she departed from her role as principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She also served as the agency’s acting chief information officer.
Woodfern Elementary School third grader Owen Boccassino was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2018.
While receiving treatment at Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital in New Brunswick, he became aware that toys and games could only be given out for one-time use because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Since supplies were low, he created an Amazon Wish List of toys and art supplies that he shared with friends and family in December.
Owen received more than $2,500 worth of toys, games and crafts that will be given to children in the inpatient and emergency room areas.
He was recently honored by the Hillsborough Township Committee.
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James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS
New Brunswick, February 4, 2021 – Expanding its team of highly specialized professionals in the treatment of routine, rare and complex cancers of the female reproductive system, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), a RWJBarnabas Health facility, have named James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS chief of gynecologic oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute and chief of gynecologic oncology services at RWJUH, New Jersey s largest academic medical center. He will also serve as Program Director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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Rutgers researchers have been awarded $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health in support of the creation of a national collaborative network seeking to identify risk and protective factors that may allow clinicians or public health professionals to predict which children are at greatest risk for serious illness from SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19.
While children are less likely than adults to become severely ill, some develop severe acute respiratory illness; they also are susceptible to multisystem inflammatory syndrome of children (MIS-C), a critical illness that can occur several weeks after infection.
The two-year grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the NIH will support the development of a national network of networks, thus building an infrastructure that ensures that children from around the country can be a part of the study. The project is designed to incorpor