Medicaid Expansion Reduced Black-White Disparities in Preventable Hospital Visits.
Expanding Medicaid-benefit eligibility to cover all people with income up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line reduced Black-white disparities in preventable hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits, according to research from Rutgers University and...
Effective Mentoring of Undergrads (Registration is now open!)
This active learning workshop for PhD students, Postdoctoral Fellows and Faculty will use techniques and case study discussions in breakout sessions to teach tools and skills to better mentor undergraduate students in a research setting. Attendees will also reflect...
Supporting Nurses Under Pressure.
With 84 percent of nurses reporting feelings of burnout arising from long hours, poor staffing ratios, emotional exhaustion, inadequate support from leadership, and more, the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden has been charged with improving nurse retention by...
REACH Community-Academic Grants Program Launch – Register for the 4/17 Informational Webinar!
The Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (REACH) – a collective effort to improve health and socioeconomic outcomes in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick -- has announced the first round of Community-Academic Grants Program funding availability. REACH is...
Children at Risk for Autism Struggle to Notice Mismatched Audio and Video.
Rutgers research that may eventually enable far earlier autism diagnoses shows that typically developing infants perceive audio-video synchrony better than high-risk for autism infants. If follow-up research demonstrates that most infants who miss unmatched audio and...
Childhood Asthma Diagnoses Halved During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
People with asthma were among those considered at high risk of COVID-19 disease. However, some studies have shown pediatric asthma exacerbations and asthma-related health care utilization actually declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Asthma and Allergy...
Naloxone Prescriptions Increased at U.S. Hospitals Between 2012 and 2019.
Rates of prescriptions for naloxone to people at high risk for opioid overdose, as well as co-prescribing with opioids, has increased in emergency departments throughout the United States over the past decade, providing insight on the positive impact of federal...
Buprenorphine After Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Results in Reduced Risk of Overdose Death.
Drug overdose deaths are a significant public health concern in the United States. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more than 105,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021, which were largely attributed to opioids. Rutgers researchers found...
How Does Interactive Technology Affect Mental Health and Wellness?
A Rutgers technology expert will discuss why we are so drawn to smartphones, social media and video games – and the effect they have on our mental health and well-being. Vivien Wen Li Anthony, an associate professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work and scientific...
Rutgers Is Awarded $20 Million to Lead Consortium of Seven Universities and Eight Nations to Curb Tuberculosis
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School will receive $20 million over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to coordinate research being conducted in eight nations on tuberculosis (TB)...