New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Aleksunes' article in the Journal of Hazardous Materials titled, "Hybrid non-animal modeling: A mechanistic approach to predict chemical hepatotoxicity." Hepatotoxicity, often referred to as drug-induced liver injury (DILI), is a leading cause of acute...
NJIT Computing Researchers Fix Critical Mistakes in Medical Mobile Apps.
Potentially deadly mathematical errors are prevalent among mobile applications used in clinical and emergency room settings, but a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Ying Wu College of Computing has found provable solutions that may save...
Causes of Stress and Diabetes Could Be Linked, Study Suggests.
Stress may be the reason people with obesity are more likely to get other metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Scientists at Rutgers University, New Jersey, experimented on genetically engineered mice to investigate how overeating...
Consider the potential harms of antibiotics. Lives may depend on it.
What happens in the dentist’s office or urgent care center in Somerset today or with a doctor from West Windsor next week can have a long-term impact in New Jersey – and it can affect your health in ways you might not have considered. When used correctly, antibiotics...
Which cancer causes the most NJ deaths — and why are more Black residents dying of it?
Despite strides in survival rates, lung cancer remains the top cause of cancer deaths in New Jersey and was more likely to kill Black residents than other races, said a report released Tuesday. New Jersey ranked ninth among states in the five-year survival rate, which...
Bracing for the Dr. Oz effect on health care.
The health insurance coverage for 3.5 million vulnerable New Jersey residents will be overseen by a cardiologist and former television personality known for promoting highly questionable cures, if President-elect Donald Trump gets his way. The incoming Republican...
Rutgers Health Earns National Honor for Advancing Inclusive Excellence.
Rutgers Health is the first to receive a bronze biomedicine award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for its efforts and commitments to advance inclusive excellence in biomedicine as part of the group’s STEMM Equity Achievement (SEA)...
Study Reveals How Cell Types Shape Human Brain Networks.
Rutgers researchers at the Brain Health Institute (BHI) and Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research (CAHBIR) have uncovered how different types of brain cells work together to form large-scale functional networks in the human brain – interconnected systems...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Deo's article in medRxiv titled, "Validation of an ICD-Code-Based Case Definition for Psychotic Illness Across Three Health Systems." Psychotic disorders typically have their onset during late adolescence or early adulthood, and are associated with...
Researchers Zero In On Genetic Variant Tied to Miscarriages.
In what could be a major advance in understanding the genetic causes underlying human infertility, scientists led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick have identified a gene variant directly tied to early miscarriages in women. The discovery of the...