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Fighting for Others: How Guilt and Obligation Drives the Desire for More Intensive Treatments in End-of-Life Cancer Care.
Guilt and shame – not hope for recovery – are among the most common reasons terminally ill cancer patients continue with minimally beneficial treatments at the end of life, according to Rutgers researchers. “In the United States, advanced illness care is enveloped in...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core COVID-19 Resources
The situation around the current spread of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. We have compiled resource links for the general community highlighting local resources across New Jersey, ways to get involved, and mental and physical wellness. Visit our COVID-19 page for...
Tracking Firearm Violence and Impact on Dental Health.
Higher firearm violence in neighborhoods is linked to lower rates of people going to the dentist and higher rates of total tooth loss, known as edentulism, according to Rutgers researchers. Their study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, used...
Researchers Investigate How to Integrate Behavioral Health into Primary Care.
Day-to-day behaviors such as diet, exercise and sleep profoundly affect health, but primary care doctors rarely have enough time to discuss such behavioral health changes to inspire improvement. A Rutgers Health study published in the Journal of the American Board of...
Scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see.
After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and functional systems of mammalian perception. To date, it is the largest and...
New COVID-19 Drug Shows Greater Promise Against Resistant Viral Strains.
Rutgers Health researchers have developed an oral antiviral drug candidate for COVID-19 that could overcome major limitations of Paxlovid, currently the most prescribed oral treatment. As with its predecessor, the new drug candidate, Jun13296, targets a different...
How a new library is set to transform this underserved N.J. community
A $3 million grant from the New Jersey State Library’s Capital Projects Fund made [a new county library branch] possible. It allows the Gloucester County Library System to build a nearly 4,500-square-foot building in the 700 block of N. Delsea Drive, with a projected...
Poll Finds Majority of New Jerseyans Give Negative Ratings to State and National Economy.
New Jerseyans give subpar ratings to both the state and national economy, though they are more positive about New Jersey than the nation, as a whole, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll in partnership with New Jersey Organization for a Better State political...