Medicaid cuts could be dangerous for cancer survivors.
When Valerie Brown’s lung cancer returned and began to spread to other parts of her body, her doctors suggested a drug that would slow the cancer’s growth. She’d already had surgery and radiation, and eliminating the cancer was no longer an option. Most people with...
Rutgers Health expert urges vaccinations ahead of respiratory illness season.
With flu, COVID-19 and RSV expected to circulate widely again this fall and winter, a Rutgers Health infectious disease expert is urging people to get vaccinated in the coming weeks to reduce the risk of severe illness. Between Oct. 1, 2024, and May 17, the flu alone...
Four Research Teams Are Awarded Funding from Institute for Health Data Core.
Officials with the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH) have selected four research teams as the first recipients of its inaugural Data Core Pilot Grant Awards. Each team will receive up to $35,000 to support projects that...
Researchers Assess the Gender and Wealth Gap Within School Climate.
Researchers have long known that when children feel supported by their teachers and peers, it is easier for them to develop skills to succeed in school and beyond. But a new Rutgers study has found that the effects of positive support in the classroom are far from...
Ozempic in a Pill? It’s Closer Than You Think.
GLP-1 medications have been a life-changing tool to help people manage their blood sugar and lose weight. But the most popular forms of these medications have a big drawback: You have to inject yourself with the drug. That’s a dealbreaker for some people. Plus, these...
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...