When the Rutgers Global Health Institute was created in 2017, its leaders had a question for colleagues on campus: How many were engaged in global health? To find out, the institute did what any group of scientists seeking answers might do: It conducted a survey. Even...
Mild and moderate to severe perinatal depressive symptoms among new mothers are associated with the increased use of emergency rooms to treat their infants, according to Rutgers Health research. The study, published in the April issue of Health Affairs, examines the...
People with microplastics or nanoplastics in their carotid artery tissues were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from any cause over the next three years than people who had none, a new study found. Carotid arteries, which lie on each side of the...
Second-year medical student Kritika Sharma spent the past semester volunteering at University Hospital in Newark to help women screen for breast cancer. She was part of a team of students at New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health providing cancer screening...
While the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 allowed states to limit or ban abortion access, its effects have included many Americans losing access to non-abortion reproductive services such as in vitro fertilization...
