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.
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Health Care
CDC holiday guidance calls for COVID vaccine, masks indoors
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.
Read More »New approach
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.
Read More »Cool technology
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.
Read More »Early detection
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.
Read More »Comprehensive care
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.
Read More »Filling a gap in New Brunswick
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.
Read More »Johnson & Johnson puts talc claims into Chapter 11
Among other measures, a $2 billion trust will be established to facilitate an efficient resolution of claims.
Read More »PTC Therapeutics opens gene therapy manufacturing facility in Hopewell
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.
Read More »Camden County Health Hub opens at CCC campus
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.
Read More »Officials break ground on tech hub in New Brunswick
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.
Read More »Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital names new COO
Alan Lee brings a depth of experience in academic medicine and customer service to the New Brunswick-based health care system.
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