New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Schmitz's article in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology titled, "Paternal depression in the postpartum year and children's behaviors at age 5 in an urban U.S. birth cohort." Maternal depression has been linked to adverse child developmental...
Is It Time to Worry About Benzene?
Benzene seems to have cropped up everywhere in recent years. First, it was hand sanitizers with “unacceptable levels” of the carcinogen. Then there were recalls of antifungal foot sprays and alarming reports of tainted deodorants, dry shampoos and sunscreens. Some of...
Rutgers Public Health Research Illustrates Rise in Use of Paid Family Leave in New Jersey.
Rutgers School of Public Health research found that New Jersey’s expansion of the Family Leave Insurance program in 2019 and 2020 was associated with a sharp increase in the use of family leave benefits among state residents. Both the number of eligible claims and the...
H.O.P.E. Clinic Receives Award to Transition to Electronic Health Record System.
The Health Outreach Practice Experience (H.O.P.E.) Clinic, a free health clinic in the Rutgers School of Health Professions that serves uninsured patients in Plainfield, N.J., has received a grant to transition from a paper-based system to an electronic health record...
Rutgers Startup Seeks to Design Safer Prescription Opiates.
Rutgers startup Zena Therapeutics is working to develop safer medications that would minimize or even eliminate overdoses from prescription drugs used in mental health treatment. “We believe that it is feasible and possible to design drugs and medications where death...
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...