Quest said a single nasal swab can identify nearly 20 viral and bacterial infections, reducing time to diagnosis and the beginning of treatment.

Medical technology company Smith+Nephew will pay $240 million for the Plainsboro Township-based firm's extremity business.

According to the Gov. Phil Murphy, the Abbott Labs' diagnostics will nearly double the state's testing capacity. “It will be keeping things that are open, open,” he said.

The office under the direction of Robert Scanlon, a licensed physical therapist with more than 35 years experience, is the provider's 19th.

The CEO of Summit CityMD talks about the company's big merger, delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic and his ambitious expansion plans.

New Jersey has recorded more than 202,000 cases of COVID-19 since the first was logged on March 4, with recent upticks being seen in five counties and the highest in Ocean, which had 400 new daily cases.

"The thing that makes me very pleased and encouraged about New Jersey is that, notwithstanding that you got hit pretty badly, right now if you continue to carefully and prudently open the economy, you can get through the fall and the winter," the nation’s top infectious disease expert said in a half-hour long Facebook Live video chat with Gov. Phil Murphy.

"The speed of health care innovation is astonishing," said Sheldon Vogel, who along with his wife Anne made the contribution—the largest named health care donation in New Jersey. "Health care transformation requires investment. Our gift will ensure that Monmouth Medical Center will continue to meet the evolving health care needs of our neighbors and friends right here in Monmouth County."

The program, which communicates over Bluetooth via mobile devices, is meant to inform a student if they’ve been within 6 feet of someone with COVID-19 for more than 10 minutes, according to New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli.

Upward of 60,000 participants are taking part in the study in 215 locations across the United States and several other countries.

The 14,000-square-foot Springfield site will feature four fully equipped production suites and three additional customizable ones, research space, multiple sterility lines, quality control, material storage and packaging space.

The Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration will allow laboratories in the United States certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments to use the ViroKey SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test to identify the virus.