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Helping New Jersey Clinicians Close Care Gaps for Disabled Adults.
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...
Model for Group Prenatal Care Bolsters Patient Satisfaction, Support and Trust, Researchers Find.
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...
Major NIH Grant is Strengthening Rutgers–Camden Research.
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...
Keep Calm & Carry On. An update on people’s behavioral health needs and the way care is delivered.
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...
Study suggests breast milk hormones affect babies’ sleep patterns.
Busy moms might be sending their babies the wrong signal if they feed evening breast milk that was expressed in the morning, a new study suggests. The composition of breast milk changes throughout the day, including hormones thought to influence babies' wake/sleep...
Research Resources Workshop Wednesday on 10/15 from 4-5 pm
Training Grant Support presented by Katherine C. Aquino, PhD Executive Director, Research Training and Development School of Graduate Studies – Biomedical and Health Sciences Join on Zoom View Flyer
Medicaid Crucial In Battling Opioid Epidemic.
Medicaid serves a key role in helping opioid addicts get the treatment they need, a new study says. Prescription rates for the anti-opioid medication buprenorphine increased more than 27% in states that expanded Medicaid between 2018 and 2024, researchers reported in...
What do RFK Jr’s vaccine moves mean in NJ?
A newly-assembled CDC advisory committee, handpicked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., spent two chaotic days debating federal public health strategies before voting to change some vaccine protocols for both COVID-19 and a combination...