Rutgers operates the New Jersey Hopeline, the state’s first suicide prevention hotline. It’s one of 12 national backup centers that will triage overflow calls made to 9-8-8, a new national hotline for mental health crisis and suicide prevention. Read the Full...
Hospitals must list the cash prices for services like X-rays or medical tests online, according to federal law. A new study finds the rule is largely ignored. The Hospital Price Transparency Law is intended to make the hidden costs of services such as X-rays, medical...
A notorious Superfund site gets new legal challenge New Jersey has recently begun to focus on the environmental and social damage done by industrial pollution in what are known as environmental justice communities, frequently poor and largely communities of...
Researcher Workbench expands participant data to drive unique insights Health data from nearly 20,000 people who have had SARS-CoV-2 is now available to researchers across the U.S., opening new opportunities to study COVID-19 disease prevention, progression, and...
Native American and Alaska Native populations were the only Americans to see no increase whatsoever in life expectancy in the two decades preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, living 73.1 years on average in 2019 — nearly six years less than white Americans. The study, is...
