New Jersey Institute of Technology has tapped David E. Jones, a leading voice for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in higher education, to become its first chief diversity officer. Jones, who starts Dec. 1, joins from William Paterson University, where he...
Fostering connections and cultivating collaboration among scholars and advocates was the aim of the inaugural “Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Patient Engagement and Health Communication” held October 14, 2022 at the Heldrich Hotel in New...
A Rutgers study of obese adults, all with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and morbid obesity (body mass index > 40), has shown that those who underwent bariatric surgery suffered far fewer extreme cardiovascular events subsequently. Reporting...
Why do men have worse outcomes than women from COVID-19? A new study suggests it’s not something wrong with males, it’s something right with females. Specifically, females’ innate immune systems.A team of researchers from Princeton University, Flatiron Institute of...
Rutgers researchers think they have identified a biological process for drug and alcohol addiction and believe existing insomnia treatments could be used to reduce or eliminate cravings. A review in the December 2022 issue of Biological Psychiatry and previously...