Five questions with Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the Rutgers Institute for Health, who has studied how to help children overcome adversity. Fostering a strong relationship between children and their caregivers and, more broadly, with their community can help them...
Even as the need for quality mental health care has climbed sharply among young people in recent years, access to services has gone in the other direction. A 2019 study found that of the 7.7 million children and teens in the U.S. with at least one treatable mental...
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus was everywhere – stuck to our cell phone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our cereal boxes. Except that it wasn’t. Despite public health guidance suggesting surfaces...
Data compiled by the CDC highlights multiple weaknesses in the system of care for new mothers, from obstetricians who are not trained (or paid) to look for signs of mental trouble or addiction, to policies that strip women of health coverage shortly after they give...
People with opioid-use disorder who enter treatment are at risk for relapse, overdose or death if they engage in less than two outpatient visits in their first month of care, according to a study coauthored by Rutgers researchers. The study, published in The American...
