Antibiotics Effective After Clamping Umbilical Cord by Angela Mohan on December 22, 2020 at 3:06 PM
The study, by far the largest of its kind and published in the journal
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, challenges current recommendations for antibiotic use.
Administering antibiotics after clamping does not increase the risk of infection at the site of C-section incisions, the study concludes. Most national and international guidelines, including those of the World Health Organization, recommend that women receive antibiotics before the skin incision for cesarean section, said co-author Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health, professor of microbiology and anthropology, and director of the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Study shows resilience of US fishermen facing market disruptions from pandemic
By
Dec. 18, 2020 16:38 GMT
With US restaurants and supply chains disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic, two-fifths of commercial fishermen surveyed from Maine through North Carolina did not go fishing earlier this year, according to a Rutgers University that also documented their resilience and adaptation [.]
Want to keep reading?
sign up
This field is required
Remember me
Enter the email address associated with your account.
We ll send you instructions to reset your password.
This field is required to change your password.
redirecting.
Don t miss a beat
Start your week with our Editor s choice
The study, which covers March to June, also examined data on fish landings and found that the catch for some species, such as squid and scallops, decreased compared with previous years. But the catch for other species, such as black sea bass and haddock, was on par with or higher than previous years, suggesting that many fishermen fished as much as they had been before the pandemic, while earning less income. They may have kept fishing to pay their bills or crew, or to maintain their livelihoods or their quotas until markets rebound, said main author Sarah Lindley Smith, a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Human Ecology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Most of the fishermen who stopped fishing during the early months of the pandemic planned to resume fishing instead of leaving the industry.
Print
A $15 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant funds work led by executive director Michelle Stephens
Michelle Stephens believes that society needs to redefine what it means to be human to finally begin to dismantle racism and enact policies that correct long-standing inequities.
That is the challenge she is ready to take on as the founding executive director of the new Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers.
“It all comes back to how we are thinking about ourselves and others. The need to redefine the concept of being human and move toward global racial justice begins by understanding and addressing the ways we resist recognizing people who live under different circumstances than our own,” said Stephens, a professor of English and Latino and Caribbean studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. “The problems we are facing today from impoverishment to COVID-19 require a different way of thinking.”
E-Mail
IMAGE: Construction of the Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island, the first offshore wind farm in the United States. It began commercial operations in December 2016. view more
Credit: NOAA Fisheries
Conservation of fish and other marine life migrating from warming ocean waters will be more effective and also protect commercial fisheries if plans are made now to cope with climate change, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Sticking our heads in the sand doesn t work, said lead author Malin Pinsky, an associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Effective ocean planning that accounts for climate change will lead to better safeguards for marine fish and commercial fisheries with few tradeoffs.