Taking Proactive Steps, Rutgers Provides Free Narcan to the Community.
Rutgers University is providing free Narcan kits supplied by the New Jersey Department of Human Services on its New Brunswick, Camden and Newark campuses as a preventive measure to enhance the safety and well-being of community members. Rutgers officials said the...
Drug Repairs Systems That Drain Alzheimer’s-Causing Waste From Brain, Study Shows.
A team of Rutgers undergraduates has shown that an experimental drug known as Yoda1 may help drain cranial waste plus neurotoxins that cause Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. “The brain’s lymphatic system is one of the hottest research areas in all of...
Low Pay Is Driving Primary-Care Doctors From New Jersey, Endangering State Residents.
A shortage of primary-care doctors endangers United States residents in general and New Jerseyans in particular, according to a report co-authored by Alfred Tallia, chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical...
Creating an International Hub and Talent Pipeline in Glass Science and Technology.
Ashutosh Goel, a professor in the School of Engineering's (SoE) Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) who also conducts research in Rutgers’ Corning Glass Science and Engineering Laboratory, is quick to point out how glass surrounds us. “Smartphones...
Thinking post-Paxlovid: Rutgers researchers eye the next generation of COVID drugs.
Researchers at Rutgers University say they are showing early signs of progress toward a new treatment for COVID-19 that could work on future drug-resistant strains of the virus and represent a potential alternative to antivirals like Paxlovid. No one knows when...
CDC Sharply Overestimates Maternal Death Rate, New Study Finds.
Maternal death rates in the United States may be sharply overstated as a result of faulty surveillance techniques, according to an analysis by researchers at Rutgers Health and other universities. The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) of the Centers for Disease...
In the Resuscitation Discussion, Do Words Matter Between Doctors and Patients?
Adults 65 and older, who were hospitalized for a variety of medical conditions, had highly satisfying conversations about whether they wanted CPR, regardless of whether doctors used the terms “allow a natural death” or “do not resuscitate” for indicating no CPR,...
Certain Older Americans Show Hesitation Around Brain Scan Research.
Asian Americans are less likely than their white peers to participate in health research involving MRIs and addressing this hesitancy could improve research, according to a Rutgers Health-led study. Findings by the researchers, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia:...
Study Identifies Successful Methods to Recruit South Asian Women for Breast Cancer Research
South Asian American women increasingly are diagnosed with breast cancer at younger ages and with more advanced disease compared with other groups, a fact made even more alarming because they are underrepresented in studies, said Jaya Satagopan, an associate dean for...
Methadone Use in Early Pregnancy May Lead to More Birth Defects Than Buprenorphine.
Researchers from Rutgers Health and Harvard Medical School have found fewer congenital defects in children whose mothers treated opioid use disorder with buprenorphine rather than methadone during the first trimester of pregnancy. The study findings extend those from...