Ten businesses nabbed licenses to grow and four received vertically integrated ones allowing them to grow, process, manufacture and sell cannabis flower and products to the state's more than 18,800 medical patients and, eventually, adult use customers.

Pared down directives still advocate strongly for face coverings, staying outdoors and getting the COVID shot as a means to minimize risk and keep your family and friends safer.

Valley Health System has been invited to participate in a nationwide pilot project designed to increase racial and ethnic diversity in cancer clinical trial participants.

Patients in Central New Jersey with early-stage breast cancer may benefit from accessing a treatment that does not require traditional invasive surgery: Cryoablation uses a small needle and the cooling power of liquid nitrogen to freeze and destroy tumors.

At the beginning of October, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at University Hospital in Newark held its fifth annual See, Test & Treat event where members of the community could receive free screenings for several types of cancer all in one day.

The 12-story, 510,000-square-foot Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick will be a state-of-the-art facility featuring outpatient and inpatient capacity coupled with research laboratories, retail space and ancillary services devoted to patient wellness.

If all goes according to plan, a brand new, state of the art research and technology facility will occupy an empty parcel in the center of downtown in a few years after state and city officials broke ground on the $665 million, 550,000-square-foot New Jersey Innovation and Technology Hub on Oct. 14.

Among other measures, a $2 billion trust will be established to facilitate an efficient resolution of claims.

The center features 220,500 square feet of office, manufacturing and laboratory space, including technology equipped to handle process development and manufacturing of plasmids and adeno-associated virus vectors.

The partnership with Cooper University Health Care and the Rutgers-Camden School of Nursing launched the first phase of a one-stop shop for COVID-19 vaccines and boosters that will be housed at Camden County College Blackwood for the next several months.

The project is a $665 million, 550,000-square-foot medical education and research center. Rutgers and Princeton universities both plan to use the facility, along with Hackensack Meridian Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Alan Lee brings a depth of experience in academic medicine and customer service to the New Brunswick-based health care system.