Federal Grant Will Help Train Future Public Health Professionals.
New grant money will help the Rutgers School of Public Health strengthen the public health workforce throughout New Jersey by providing 50 percent tuition scholarships to 84 students. The $1.5 million in scholarship money from the Health Resources and Services...
No Rise in Guillain-Barre Syndrome Cases After COVID Shots: Study.
A new study has found no evidence that COVID-19 shots increase the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to researchers. "This is important because we can say that there is no significant increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome in the population," said...
Doctors Aren’t Happy About the CDC’s New Mask Guidelines for Health Care Settings.
Time and time again, experts have stressed that masking up indoors is one of the best things you can do to keep yourself and your community safe, especially as COVID-19 persists for yet another winter and we enter what’s supposed to be a really icky flu season. Yet...
Which COVID-19 bivalent booster should I get, and when? What you need to know.
Health officials are still urging Americans to get a bivalent booster nearly a month after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID-19 shots targeting the omicron variant. A look at cases and deaths: 13 states had more cases in the latest week than in the...
Pregnant and taking antidepressants? Don’t worry about neurodevelopment harm, study says.
Expectant mothers taking many common antidepressants need no longer worry the medication may harm their child’s future behavioral or cognitive neurodevelopment, according to a new study of over 145,000 women and their children across the United States followed for up...
All The Convincing You’ll Need To Ditch Bottled Water For Good.
As of 2017, people worldwide are purchasing plastic water bottles at the rate of 1 million bottles per minute, with the average American consuming 45 gallons of bottled water apiece every year. And though bottled water sales have continued to skyrocket since 2010 ―...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Crystal's article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment titled, "Non-prescribed buprenorphine preceding treatment intake and clinical outcomes for opioid use disorder." Buprenorphine, the most frequently prescribed medication for opioid use...
Should We Be Concerned About Cannabis Use Among Youth?
As the wave of legalization of medical marijuana and recreational cannabis sweeps the nation, many of us who work in the addiction field are worried. Legalization resulted in an increased availability of marijuana and a decreased stigma around using it, and those two...
What you should know about sleep loss and inflammation, according to new study.
Chronic sleep deprivation in a small group of healthy adults increased production of immune cells linked to inflammation while also altering the immune cells’ DNA, a new study found. “Not only were the number of immune cells elevated, but they may be wired and...
Rutgers Researchers Aim to ‘Edit’ Proteins in Humans and Attain Insight into Illness.
Rutgers researchers are seeking to develop the technology to modify or “edit” protein molecules in the body—an advance that could spur major breakthroughs in human health. While such research is in its early phases, the Rutgers team has received support from a...