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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:...
Rutgers Health Researchers Reveal Health Care Disparities for People with Disabilities.
People with disabilities have more difficulty accessing health care and more negative interactions with health care providers than people without disabilities, according to a Rutgers Health study. The study, published in Health Services Research by researchers from...
Rutgers Researchers Revive Decades-Old Pregnancy Cohort with Modern Scientific Potential.
The Camden Study, a pregnancy cohort of 4,765 women recruited between 1985 and 2006 from one of America’s poorest cities, has found new life at Rutgers University – where it promises to unlock critical insights into maternal and child health for researchers worldwide....