by William Jester | Apr 26, 2023 | Community, News
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom leads investigation of the medications’ co-prescription and veteran overdoses and deaths. Are veterans who simultaneously take opioids for chronic pain and benzodiazepines for anxiety and insomnia at an...
by William Jester | Apr 25, 2023 | Community, News
The rising use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has resulted in thousands of service members emerging from combat zones without working sex organs or any chance of having biological children, according to a new study from Rutgers. Researchers who analyzed the...
by William Jester | Apr 24, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
The study found those living in the South were more likely to report an increase in violence and depression. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people who experienced intimate partner violence in their current relationship before COVID-19 had an increase in...
by William Jester | Apr 23, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
Prescriptions for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder medications spiked in the first year of the pandemic, according to a report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The jump in prescriptions came after several years of...
by William Jester | Apr 22, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
Half as many children in the United States were diagnosed with asthma in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, and Rutgers researchers think fewer colds may be part of the reason. In a new Rutgers study, published in Respiratory Research,...