NJIT Students Develop Mental Health Side-Effect Tracker Recognized at Pfizer Hackathon.
Rougly half of patients do not take psychotropic drugs as prescribed, especially those in underserved communities, according to A:Care. To address this, a team of eight Ying Wu College of Computing undergraduate students created "Sidekick," a mental-health side-effect...
Older Adults With HIV May Be Facing Unequal Burden in the Opioid Crisis.
Older adults with HIV are prescribed opioids at a higher rate and are more likely to have indicators of opioid use disorder than those without HIV, according to Rutgers Health researchers. The study, published in The Lancet Primary Care, is the first long-term,...
Rutgers Medical Students Learn Importance of Humanity, Creativity and Connection in Patient-Centered Medicine.
When first-year medical students in New Brunswick and Newark started their academic journey this year, they were asked to put their textbooks and stethoscopes aside and instead mirror a classmate’s movements, understand the meaning behind a patient’s symptom complaint...
Artificial Intelligence Recreates the Motion of a Beating Heart Using Surface Electrical Recordings.
Researchers from Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that transforms basic electrocardiogram (ECG) readings of electrical activity into sophisticated heart motion signals normally obtained via echocardiogram,...
Scientists Discover Potential Blood Test for Asthma Diagnosis and Severity.
Scientists at Rutgers Health have discovered that a simple blood test could diagnose asthma and determine its severity, a breakthrough that could transform how the disease is identified and monitored. The paper, which appeared in the Journal of Clinical...
Local News Rutgers-Camden teams up with South Jersey charter school to ease nursing shortage.
With an aging population and workforce and burnout since the pandemic, a nursing shortage is worsening across the country, but there's a new partnership in South Jersey with the goal of filling those open positions. "My grandmother was a nurse and I grew up watching...
How to Prepare for Respiratory Illness Season: Get Vaccinated.
Between Oct. 1, 2024, and May 17, an estimated 47 million to 82 million people contracted the flu, with hundreds of thousands hospitalized and 27,000 to 130,000 deaths, including 266 children — the highest number of pediatric deaths reported in any non-pandemic...
Vision Therapy Reverses Concussion-Related Double and Blurred Vision, NJIT-Led Study Finds.
Nearly half of adolescents and young adults with lingering symptoms of concussion suffer from eye coordination disorders that cause double and blurred vision, headaches and difficulties concentrating. “These conditions make it hard to read books, work on a computer or...
Rutgers Health Researchers on Medicaid Cancer Screening Trends, Best Practices.
New Jersey has the tenth-highest rate of cancer incidence rate in the United States. The second leading cause of death in New Jersey, thousands of residents die from preventable cancers each year. NJ FamilyCare, the state’s Medicaid program insuring more than 1.8...
Helping New Jersey Clinicians Close Care Gaps for Disabled Adults.
Roughly 150,000 New Jersey residents have intellectual or developmental disabilities that hinder their ability to communicate with health care providers. But a pilot program from Rutgers Health has demonstrated that training can improve care for this vulnerable...