NEWS
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....
Rutgers Researchers Revive Decades-Old Pregnancy Cohort with Modern Scientific Potential.
When Emily Rosenfeld was doing a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), she noticed that many patients were returning to the hospital for hypertension. In a new Rutgers Health study published in JACC:...
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Chemical Burden of Personal Care Products.
The average consumer is exposed to more than one hundred chemicals a day through personal care products (PCPs) alone, according to a Rutgers Health study that examined the chemical exposures occurring through the specific products used daily by study...