Eyes wide, the young uninsured man from Venezuela gazed deeply into Maria Vega-Garces’ ophthalmoscope. The signs of damage from glaucoma – painless to the patient – were obvious to the student: degenerative changes to the optic nerve. “Glaucoma is one of those...
From invisible wafts of diesel exhaust to sun-choking plumes of orange smoke, air pollution is known to damage respiratory well-being. Now, research from Rutgers suggests another reason to hold our breath: Polluted air also may hurt reproductive health. In a study of...
An international clinical trial led by physician Jeffrey L. Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, found that a liberal blood transfusion given to patients who have had a heart attack and have anemia may reduce the...
Medical cannabis legalization is associated with a decrease in the frequency of nonmedical prescription opioid use, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, examined data from a nationally...
COVID-19 upended lives worldwide, impacting hopes and dreams as well as disrupting goals. Hayley Svensson, a fourth-year graduate student in the social psychology doctoral program at the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, wanted to examine how the pandemic impacted...
