Rutgers University

Student athletes in the Big Ten Conference, including Rutgers, have the blessing of Commissioner Kevin Warren to take a knee when the national anthem is played before a game this fall.

A Rutgers-Camden psychology professor says it's normal to gain weight under stress, but don't obsess about it.

The FDA on Thursday granted emergency approval for an at-home COVID-19 test developed by Rutgers University scientists.

Residents of New Jersey are more on board with waiting several weeks before "reopening the economy" than residents in nearly every other state in the country.

New Jersey's largest public university is freezing tuition, slashing spending and cutting top executive salaries as it expects to lose $200 million in three months.

The new test, first announced last week, is already being used in several New Jersey locations and it may be one of the keys to re-opening the state economy in the coming weeks.

The study includes a series of clinical trials that will explore new drug treatments, antibody testing, and long-term health tracking.

The newer method allows for testing to be done on a sample collected from a patient spitting into a vial, instead of requiring a health care professional to swab the inside of either a patient's nose or throat.

The concept, which is not without controversy, is to grow the novel coronavirus in a lab and artificially expose a certain quantity of people to it, with the hopes of then vaccinating them.

Health officials in New York and New Jersey expect a crushing surge of patients in the coming weeks.