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Rutgers has been selected as a clinical trial site for the global Pfizer-BioNTech research study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a potential oral antiviral treatment for children under 18 years with COVID-19 who have health conditions that put them at risk for...

Please read Dr. Reichman's article in Economics & Human Biology titled, "Effects of welfare reform on household food insecurity across generations." Food insecurity, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines as a lack of consistent access to enough...

Week after week, 13-year-old Ami Korn holed up in his Tarzana bedroom with his dog, Barley, to isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus, waiting for the nagging headache and earaches to dissipate. “I just thought I was going to be fine,” Ami, now 14,...

The pandemic has generated gigabytes of data that make clear which U.S. groups have been hit the hardest. Read the Full Article.

Huge swaths of people have embraced wearable gadgets. Although the gadgets are a technical achievement, some cardiologists say the information the devices produce isn’t always useful.   Read the Full Article.

Brain scan studies have yet to offer much insight into the underpinnings of traits like intelligence, or mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.  A key reason is that these studies need to include scans of thousands of brains, instead of the dozens...

Please read Dr. Tao's article in the Journal of Pain titled, "Injectable PLGA-Coated Ropivacaine Produces A Long-Lasting Analgesic Effect on Incisional Pain and Neuropathic Pain." Despite great efforts in research on the control of persistent postsurgical pain during...

We've been encouraged to wear masks throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly to protect the people around us from inhaling the tiny pieces of airborne virus that could fly out of our mouths and noses, sometimes before we even realize we're sick. But wearing a mask...

In a landmark genetic study of more than 121,000 people, Rutgers and an international consortium of researchers have identified extremely rare protein-disrupting mutations in 10 genes that strongly increase an individual’s risk of developing schizophrenia. The Genomic...