Student-Run Health Clinic Emphasizes Socially Conscious Care.
On the Newark campus of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, a health clinic run by medical students has been changing lives—and no doubt saving them—for more than 50 years. The Student Family Health Care Center serves the severely underserved: city residents who...
Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa.
Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission...
Join NJ ACTS BERD Workshop Series on March 9th
The Gap-Closing Estimand REGISTER HERE March 9th from 2:30 -4 pm Target Audience: This workshop is designed for researchers familiar with basic statistics (e.g., regression). Programming examples will use R, but the underlying causal concepts will be accessible to...
Princeton cancer researchers find that tumors’ metabolism is slower than suspected.
They hypothesized that it consumes a great deal of energy, churning through nutrients and putting healthy tissue — the heart, the liver, the pancreas — at a disadvantage as the metabolic system spreads the nutritive wealth. But in a new study, researchers from...
Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden receives $1M grant to launch first-of-its-kind training academy.
Despite dire staffing shortages, it has never been more difficult to become a nurse. In 2021, while patients languished in emergency room hallways—awaiting beds that sat unused—nearly 92,000 qualified applicants were turned away from nursing programs due to...
New Tobacco Product Marketing Depends on Demographics.
A study by the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center will help establish policy on the sale and marketing of two different tobacco products recently introduced to the United States market. The study, published...
Join NJ ACTS for the NIH Fellowship Grant Writing Series on March 3rd!
Interested in increasing the quality of your NIH Fellowship grant submission? You are invited to attend the NIH Fellowship Grant Writing Series, brought to you by the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies and the Rutgers Office of Postdoctoral Advancement in...
Resilience to HIV-Related Stigma May Be Key to Ending the AIDS Epidemic.
Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult, if not impossible, to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers study. Once considered a death sentence, HIV/AIDS has evolved into a manageable...
Ozempic, Wegovy and the Evolving Weight-Loss Drug Market.
Ozempic, a diabetes drug, and its weight-loss counterpart, Wegovy, have been making a splash in headlines, the medical community and pop culture as the newest way to lose weight. Because of society's complicated, and often dangerous, relationship with diet pills, some...
Rutgers Specialists Show Facial Pain Can Be Unconnected to Teeth.
What’s the proper treatment for constant, inexplicable pain in the face, jaw or head that defies conventional dental treatment? According to researchers from the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, the answer varies widely from patient to patient. For one patient in a...