Home Health Care Linked to Increased Hospice Use at End-of-Life, Study Reveals.
Home health care use in the last three years of a patient’s life is associated with a higher likelihood of hospice care at the end of life, according to a Rutgers Health study. Researchers, whose findings are published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, examined...
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New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Jimenez's article in Pediatric Research titled, "Maximizing the impact of reach out and read literacy promotion:anticipatory guidance and modeling." Primary care is an ideal platform to address poverty-related inequities in early language experiences....
Grace Wang Joins NJ State Court Artificial Intelligence Committee.
New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial...
Structural Racism and Anti-LGBTQ Policies Can Impact Suicide Risk.
High suicide risk, specifically among young Black gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men, may be associated with structural racism and anti-LGBTQ policies, according to a new Rutgers study. The study, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence special...
Rutgers School of Nursing Receives Excellence in Diversity Award.
The Rutgers School of Nursing is one of 10 colleges and schools of nursing in the nation to be recognized for its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The school, along with FDU Health at Fairleigh Dickinson University, were the only two New Jersey...
Rutgers Racing to Discover a Better Paxlovid.
Researchers from Rutgers are among leaders in a race to find an oral COVID-19 treatment to supplement or replace Paxlovid – the antiviral medication that helps keep high-risk patients out of the hospital and from dying. They have published data showing that an...
RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture by Dr. Philip Demokritou on February 16 at Noon
FROM PLASTICS TO MICRO-NANOPLASTICS: Potential Environmental Health Implications Philip Demokritou, PhD Director, Nanoscience and Advance Materials Center (NAMC) Henry Rutgers Chair and Professor, School of Public Health, RBHS Chair, Division of Environmental and...
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Varies by Race, Sex and Birthplace, Researchers Find.
Researchers from Rutgers and other institutions have uncovered significant variations in how inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people of different races, sexes and places of birth. The study, published in Gastro Hep Advances, may assist caregivers and help shed...