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NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
AI Algorithms Used in Healthcare Can Perpetuate Bias.
The AI algorithms increasingly used to treat and diagnose patients can have biases and blind spots that could impede healthcare for Black and Latinx patients, according to research co-authored by a Rutgers-Newark data scientist. Fay Cobb Payton, a Mathematics and...
New Method Makes Brain Imaging Research More Accessible for Psychiatric Studies.
A new approach to analyzing brain scans could help researchers better understand psychiatric illness using much smaller groups of patients than previously thought necessary, potentially accelerating the development of more precise mental health treatments. Until...
Tobacco-Related Health Inequities are a Social Justice Issue.
The 2024 Surgeon General’s Report estimates that each year, more than 490,000 deaths are attributable to cigarette smoking and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in the United States. “With one in five U.S. deaths attributable to tobacco and persistent disparities...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Reichman's article in Women's Health Issues titled, "Early Childcare Precarity and Subsequent Maternal Health." Childcare precarity is a state of insecure and unreliable childcare arrangements while parents are working or in school. Among other...
Lead Screening in Pregnancy Can Protect Maternal and Newborn Health. Why Is It Not Universal?
Doctors have long known that lead exposure during pregnancy poses significant health risks for both mothers and newborns, but universal screening is not mandated in New Jersey or nationwide. In 2019, a pioneering program launched by Rutgers Health with support by the...
Patients are stockpiling birth control over fears Trump could limit access to contraception.
Women are stocking up on birth control and asking for long-term contraception methods following President Donald Trump being elected to a second term last week, doctors say. Searches for "birth control" and "Plan B" doubled between Nov. 2 and the two days after the...
Rutgers Health Partners with Law Enforcement to Expand Mental Health Crisis Response.
ARRIVE Together of Middlesex County, run by University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) at Rutgers Health, has expanded its partnerships to include the East Brunswick, South River and Cranbury Police Departments, making New Jersey the first state in the nation to have...