Kerrie Prettitore’s genetic mutation kept her body from breaking down the chemo drug 5-FU. A test for the mutation exists but is rarely used.
Author: Lindy Washburn, North Jersey Record
New Jersey preschoolers have highest autism rates in the nation, researchers say
Rates in New Jersey have tripled in a generation, Rutgers researchers say. One in 35 NJ children is diagnosed by age 4, the nation’s highest rate.
Feds impose $600,000 fine on New Jersey nursing home after 11 children die
The federal government imposed a $600,000 fine on the nursing home were 11 children died last fall. The facility is appealing.
Only fraction of patients have been notified of possible HIV at NJ surgery center
A Saddle Brook, N.J., surgery center that may have exposed patients to HIV and hepatitis has been able to contact only one-third of at-risk patients.
Do they have HIV? Unsanitary surgery center’s patients left waiting for results
Former patients at HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, waited to learn whether they contracted HIV or hepatitis.