A Rutgers Health expert discusses the myths and realities of the measles outbreak and the vaccine gap that is putting Americans at risk. The rate of measles outbreaks in the United States is rising: Last year, there were 16 outbreaks, up from four in 2023. So far in...
Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the United States for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to new federal data published early Thursday. The rate of overdose deaths fell from 32.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2022 to 31.3 per 100,000...
More and more New Jersey kids are going unvaccinated on religious grounds amid what experts call an unprecedented acceleration in measles spread throughout the United States. Over the last ten years the percentage of New Jersey children skipping vaccines through...
Rutgers Experts Bring Hope to Finding a Cure. At the Rutgers American Parkinson Disease Association Center for Advanced Research—one of only nine such centers—we don’t just seek to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s but to cure it. By focusing on approaches to stop a...
A Rutgers professor studying the sense of touch and its role in movement, socialization and pain perception has been awarded a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship. Victoria Abraira, an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience in the School of...
