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A new study has found evidence that exposure to A new study has found evidence that exposure to metals may cause pre-term birth and low weight babies.
According to the new study, some of the metals disrupt the women s endocrine system. The endocrine glands have many important and essential functions in the body. If their secretion and functions are disrupted in a pregnant woman, this dysfunction can be the precursor to the future diseases and health problems seen in their children.
According to Rutgers School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology assistant professor and lead author Zorimar Rivera-Núnez, there is a delicate balance in the system of hormones in pregnancy, starting from the point of conception up to the baby s delivery. A disruption of such balance could affect both the mother and her baby negatively.
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N.J.’s contact tracing operation is struggling, experts say. Here’s how other states are doing it better.
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
A contact tracer at the Camden County Department of Health works in her office in May.Phil McAuliffe For The Times Of Trenton
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If you test positive for COVID-19 in New Jersey, you should eventually get a call from one of the state’s 3,500 contact tracers.
They will ask you how you are doing, give you information on how to quarantine and offer you any help you might need. Then, comes the big question: Will you turn over the names and contact information for anyone you spent 10 or 15 minutes with who might have been exposed to the virus?
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Stress related to the coronavirus pandemic and the uncertainty of what the future holds is motivating people to purchase firearms, a trend that may be more prevalent in those who already own firearms, according to a Rutgers study.
The study, published in the
Journal of Psychiatric Research, found that people intending to acquire a firearm in the next 12 months are less tolerant of uncertainty, have exaggerated threat expectancies and are experiencing more severe COVID-19 specific fears. They also were more likely to have experienced suicidal ideation in the past year, to have worked in law enforcement, and to have been considered essential workers during COVID-19.
As the weather worsens, we must make sure students still get their school lunches | Opinion
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Rutgers graduate student Bintu Fofana and law professor Jennifer Rosen Valverde say that as COVID-19 rates rise, temperatures drop and the weather worsens, getting meals to those in need should be a top priority. Above, Trenton Public School students pick up free breakfasts and lunches this past spring. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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By Bintu Fofana and Jennifer Rosen Valverde
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced public school districts across New Jersey and parts of the United States to grapple with unprecedented challenges. Initially, much of the focus was on remedying access to technology and internet capacity issues; more recently, attention has shifted to finding ways to diminish the loss of earlier academic gains and best-enabling students to make educational progres