New Jersey has the tenth-highest rate of cancer incidence rate in the United States. The second leading cause of death in New Jersey, thousands of residents die from preventable cancers each year. NJ FamilyCare, the state’s Medicaid program insuring more than 1.8...
Roughly 150,000 New Jersey residents have intellectual or developmental disabilities that hinder their ability to communicate with health care providers. But a pilot program from Rutgers Health has demonstrated that training can improve care for this vulnerable...
CenteringPregnancy is a prenatal care model combining education and individual health assessments in group settings for women at similar stages of pregnancy. A new evaluation by the Rutgers School of Public Health demonstrates that Centering fosters important social...
Under the guidance of Professor of Chemistry and Center for Computational Biology (CCIB) faculty member Jinglin Fu, Rutgers–Camden students are benefiting from a grant of almost $500,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The goal of the research is to...
According to Ken Esser, executive vice president of behavioral health at Hackensack Meridian Health, “About one in five adults across this country are suffering from some sort of mental health illness. Half get no treatment whatsoever. When you talk about significant...
