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Ozempic in a Pill? It’s Closer Than You Think.
GLP-1 medications have been a life-changing tool to help people manage their blood sugar and lose weight. But the most popular forms of these medications have a big drawback: You have to inject yourself with the drug. That’s a dealbreaker for some people. Plus, these...
NJIT Students Develop Mental Health Side-Effect Tracker Recognized at Pfizer Hackathon.
Rougly half of patients do not take psychotropic drugs as prescribed, especially those in underserved communities, according to A:Care. To address this, a team of eight Ying Wu College of Computing undergraduate students created "Sidekick," a mental-health side-effect...
Older Adults With HIV May Be Facing Unequal Burden in the Opioid Crisis.
Older adults with HIV are prescribed opioids at a higher rate and are more likely to have indicators of opioid use disorder than those without HIV, according to Rutgers Health researchers. The study, published in The Lancet Primary Care, is the first long-term,...
Rutgers Medical Students Learn Importance of Humanity, Creativity and Connection in Patient-Centered Medicine.
When first-year medical students in New Brunswick and Newark started their academic journey this year, they were asked to put their textbooks and stethoscopes aside and instead mirror a classmate’s movements, understand the meaning behind a patient’s symptom complaint...
Artificial Intelligence Recreates the Motion of a Beating Heart Using Surface Electrical Recordings.
Researchers from Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that transforms basic electrocardiogram (ECG) readings of electrical activity into sophisticated heart motion signals normally obtained via echocardiogram,...
Scientists Discover Potential Blood Test for Asthma Diagnosis and Severity.
Scientists at Rutgers Health have discovered that a simple blood test could diagnose asthma and determine its severity, a breakthrough that could transform how the disease is identified and monitored. The paper, which appeared in the Journal of Clinical...
Local News Rutgers-Camden teams up with South Jersey charter school to ease nursing shortage.
With an aging population and workforce and burnout since the pandemic, a nursing shortage is worsening across the country, but there's a new partnership in South Jersey with the goal of filling those open positions. "My grandmother was a nurse and I grew up watching...
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...