Minority patient groups—including those whose primary language is not English and those who have lower middle-income economic status—with a diagnosis of metastatic cancer, are less likely to receive end-of-life palliative care or a hospice referral, according to...
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...
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...
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...
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...