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Proposed Legislation Would Provide Crucial Funding for Endometriosis Research.
The Endometriosis CARE Act, which was introduced in 2022, seeks to deliver $50 million annually to advance research and expand access to treatment for this condition in which tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside the uterus, often causing pain, heavy...
Access to Reliable Internet and Digital Devices Tied to College Graduation Rates During COVID-19 .
Digital inequality – challenges in accessing or maintaining an internet connection and functional digital devices – affected on-time graduation for U.S. college students over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study co-authored by Rutgers...
Rutgers Students Are Saving Lives With Colorectal Cancer Screening Project.
A Rutgers student group has assembled more than 1,600 home test kits to spread a message about the importance of early screening for colorectal cancer – the second-most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Volunteers with the Rutgers Health Service...
Most Americans Don’t Know About Medical Aid in Dying Options.
A Rutgers Health study is the first to examine a national sample of adults on their knowledge of and preference toward Medical Aid in Dying. Most people in the United States don’t know that medical aid in dying, a legal practice that allows terminally ill patients to...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Horton's article in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science titled, "Assessments of working group effectiveness in the planning of the New Jersey Kids Study: An applied mixed-methods study on the science of team science." There is growing...
Rutgers’ Mobile Clinic: The Heartbeat of Health for Those Experiencing Homelessness.
To the casual observer, the white box truck parked along Frelinghuysen Avenue in Newark on a recent morning might have looked more like a Mister Softee ice cream van than a doctor’s office on wheels. But to Lavanya Kamineni, an advanced nurse practitioner at Rutgers...
Rutgers Launches Center to Tackle Barriers to Weight Loss and Other Causes of Disease.
Rutgers Health recently launched the Center for NeuroMetabolism, which aims to address the weight loss and health challenges many Americans face that can lead to Type 2 diabetes, obesity, eating disorders and other gastrointestinal, vascular and inflammatory...
Join NJ ACTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD) on 4/24 at 1pm for a Workshop
Variable Selection with Machine Learning Models: LASSO and Alternatives presented by Dr. Elizabeth Handorf Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Resident Faculty, Rutgers Cancer Institute 4/24, 1 - 2:30 pm on Zoom Target Audience:...