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The 10 Popular Health Trends You Shouldn’t Try in 2025.

What’s considered healthy (or not!) changes every few years when it comes to diet and wellness. Some trends, such as choosing non-alcoholic drinks or boosting your protein intake (mentioned here, in our biggest diet and nutrition trends for 2025), are good for you....

New NJACTS Publication

Please read Dr. Jensen's article in medRxiv titled, "Patterns of blunt and cigar use in the United States, 2015-2019." Concurrent cigar and blunt (i.e., replacing some or all of the tobacco within a cigar with cannabis) use is common within the United States...

Heart disease is killing Black women; 5 tips for preventing it.

Heart disease is largely preventable, experts say. Still, it’s the number one killer of Black women who sometimes lack access to health care and whose symptoms are often ignored. “The stark reality is more women die from heart disease than any other cause,” said Dr....

How Parenthood May Help Keep Your Brain Young.

How Parenthood May Help Keep Your Brain Young.

Parents' brains may be getting an unexpected benefit from raising children: protection against some effects of aging, according to a new study of nearly 37,000 adults. The research from Rutgers Health and Yale University, published in the Proceedings of the Natural...

New Study Raises Alarm Over Alzheimer’s Blood Tests.

New Study Raises Alarm Over Alzheimer’s Blood Tests.

Research from Rutgers Health indicates that blood tests for Alzheimer's disease need to be interpreted with caution – particularly for Black patients. “These tests are currently geared towards primary care physicians and directly to older adults concerned about...

How a junk-food splurge can change your brain activity.

Five days of indulging in chocolate bars, crisps and other junk foods can lead to lingering changes in brain activity, a study shows1. The resulting brain patterns are similar to those seen in people who have obesity. A junk-food splurge shifted brain patterns in...

New NJACTS Publication

Please read Dr. Heinert's article in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science titled, "Comparing emergency department versus high school-based recruitment for a hypertension research study with adult-youth dyads." Inclusion of a support person in behavioral...