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How the Indirect Effects of Nurture NJ Bolster Maternal Health Initiatives.
Rutgers Health researchers have assessed not only the direct effects of Nurture NJ – the statewide initiative launched in 2019 by First Lady Tammy Murphy to improve maternal and infant health and reduce racial disparities in health outcomes – but the indirect effects...

In Once-Redlined City Neighborhoods, Ambulances Still Lag Behind.
In parts of cities once marked “hazardous” on federal housing maps, an ambulance is still more likely to show up late than in neighborhoods that bankers favored nearly a century ago, according to a national analysis of 236 urban areas.Rutgers researchers found that...
Join Tomorrow 9/11 for Rutgers Health AI Virtual Seminar Series
Small Data in the Big Data Paradigm: LLMs and Relevant Use Cases presented by Fay Cobb Payton, PhD, MBA Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Innovation Director, Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science (IDRIS) Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science...

How a Doctor’s Blood Transfusion Research Is Changing Standards and Saving Lives.
Jeffrey Carson spent more than a decade persuading hospitals that fewer, resource-saving blood transfusions work just as well as more frequent transfusions for most patients. More recently, the Rutgers internist finished a massive study that indicates a major...
Discovery of a protein that reverses Alzheimer’s and heals brain injuries stuns scientists.
As we grow older, age-related illness becomes a larger part of our daily lives either through our friends, family, or ourselves. The CDC reports that nearly seven million people in the United States were suffering from Alzheimer's in 2020. That number will likely...
Register for the Postdoctoral Research Symposium by September 12th
2025 Rutgers Postdoctoral Research Symposium Keynote speaker Dr. Laura Giacometti This celebration of research will strengthen relationships between RU postdocs, facilitate potential collaborations, and allow important research to be shared with a broad group of...
Join NJ ACTS Tomorrow 9/9 for a Special Seminar
Mechanistic Determinants of Repair and Regeneration in Response to Chronic Injury Venkataramana K. Sidhaye, MD Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Professor of Environmental Health and Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering Johns...

‘A Dangerous Setback’: HIV/AIDS Activists Warn of Fallout from Medicaid, CDC Cuts.
For more than 10 years, an HIV diagnosis was seen as a certain death sentence, with over 40,000 people dying from AIDS before the first drug to treat the virus was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and placed on the market. Infectious disease specialists...