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NJIT Launches AI Microcredential to Drive AI Literacy, Ethical Practices.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will now offer an AI Literacy Microcredential that provides foundational knowledge and skills to thrive in an era shaped by artificial intelligence. The microcredential is designed to ensure that graduates are AI-literate,...
Mental Health Care Clinicians Typically Ask Certain Patients About Firearm Access.
Many mental health care clinicians don’t ask all of their patients whether they have access to firearms, an important step in firearm injury prevention, according to Rutgers Health researchers. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, examined a report by mental...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Qin's article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: CardioOncology titled, "Neighborhood Archetypes and Cardiovascular Health in Black Breast Cancer Survivors." The increasing number of breast cancer (BC) survivors in the United...
A Weekly Injection Could Replace Painful Daily Treatment for Rare Fat Disorder.
Rutgers Health researchers have found that a weekly injection of diabetes medication could replace painful daily hormone shots for people with a rare genetic form of lipodystrophy that leaves patients with almost zero fat tissue, according to a study in The New...
Scientists Discover How Genetic Risk for Alcoholism Changes Brain Cell Behavior.
Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that brain immune cells from people with a high genetic risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) behave differently than cells from low-risk people when exposed to alcohol. Their study in Science Advances could help explain why...
What leaving World Health Organization would mean for US.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization, finishing what he started during his first term when his administration formally began exiting the WHO amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In his order, the...
Fears of devastation across NJ health, scientific research if Trump cuts proceed.
Federally funded research largely continues in New Jersey, despite threats from the Trump administration to slash financial support for this work in ways critics say would be disastrous for science, public health and the state economy. But academic leaders,...
Rutgers Health scores $686K grant to study effects of medicinal cannabis use.
As medicinal cannabis becomes more widely used, Rutgers Health is examining the potential physical and mental health effects on patients. After receiving a $686,376 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, researchers recently kicked off a five-year study on...