Military Service Members Who Hide Their Suicidal Thoughts Are More Likely to Store Their Firearms Unsafely.
Military service members who haven’t told anyone about their suicidal thoughts or talked with a behavioral health professional are most likely to store their firearms unsafely, according to a Rutgers study. The study, which was funded by the Military Suicide Research...
Temporary Child-Welfare Placements Target Nonwhite Children Disproportionately.
Nationwide, children who are removed from their homes by child protective services for fewer than 30 days are overwhelmingly Asian American, Black or Native American, raising questions about the impartiality of states’ child welfare systems and policies, according to...
Hispanic and Latino Young Males With Higher Education, Greater Acculturation Are More Likely to Use E-Cigarettes.
Hispanic and Latino young men with higher levels of education who were born in the United States and speak mostly English at home are more likely to use e-cigarettes, according to a Rutgers researcher. In a study, published in American Journal of Medicine Open,...
Diversity, equity and inclusion report highlights many ways Princeton is working toward enriching teaching, research and community.
The University has released its second annual diversity, equity and inclusion report, which highlights how Princeton is working to be even more diverse, inclusive and accessible in ways that enrich the quality of teaching and research and improve campus climate. The...
N.J. supports expanding Medicare to all U.S. residents, poll shows.
A wide majority of New Jerseyans are at least somewhat in favor of expanding Medicare to provide basic health care coverage to every U.S. resident, not just seniors, a new poll shows. The Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Tuesday found 71% of Garden State adults support...
New DNA Analysis Provides First Accurate Tuberculosis Genome.
Researchers have developed a novel genome assembly tool that could spur the development of new treatments for tuberculosis and other bacterial infections. The new tool, which has created an improved genome map of one tuberculosis strain, should do likewise for other...
Rutgers Seeks Participants to Research Long COVID in Children and Young Adults.
Rutgers will take the lead in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study seeking to define long COVID – a term used to describe lingering COVID-19 symptoms – in children, including its evolution and how often it occurs. The university is recruiting 150 participants...
Strong Connection to Neighbors May Improve Health Outcomes.
Strong neighborhood connections reduced the negative impact of living alone on the death rates of older Chinese Americans, according to Rutgers researchers. The study, published in Social Science & Medicine, examined if neighborhood cohesion among Chinese...
Majority of New Jerseyans Support Expanding Medicare to All U.S. Residents.
New Jerseyans largely support expanding Medicare to provide basic health care coverage to every U.S. resident, regardless of age or employment status, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. The latest poll finds: Seventy-one percent of New Jersey residents support to...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core on January 31st!
Advancing Patient Safety for Antipsychotic-Treated Children: Examining State Implementation of Safe Use Practices Greta Bushnell, PhD, MSPH Jim Lloyd, JD, MPP Tuesday, January 31, at 12 pm ET Greta Bushnell is a pharmacoepidemiologist and an Assistant Professor of...