Joe Vitale

NJ's second measles outbreak in seven months may prompt the Legislature to tighten up New Jersey’s vaccination rules by eliminating religious exemptions.

There is growing support for a measure to dramatically expand the statute of limitations for filing sexual assault civil lawsuits in New Jersey.

The state is already making changes in wake of the deadly adenovirus outbreak in Wanaque. Lawmakers want to make changes of their own.

Six days after giving birth to her and her husband's first born in 2011, Tara Hansen died due to an undetected infection contracted during the birth process.

"It's not just the needles. It's then the sexual activity that happens with the drug use," said Mark Anderson, executive director of Buddies of New Jersey.

The Senate will schedule a vote to prevent Gov. Chris Christie from shifting oversight of addiction and mental-health services to the Department of Health.

Votes in Congress on replacing the Affordable Care Act are imminent. A report says the plan could cost a half-million New Jerseyans health coverage by 2020.

Part of the opioid abuse legislation quickly signed into law last week by Gov. Chris Christie requires private health insurers in New Jersey to provide expanded inpatient and outpatient treatment of substance abuse disorders at their in-network facilities.

The chairman of the state Senate Health Committee, Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, believes the answer to that question is yes.

It already exists in the Garden State, but New Jersey is on a very short list of states without regulations specifically addressing the field of telemedicine - the virtual interaction between patient and doctor.