by William Jester | Feb 6, 2024 | Community, News
Modern medicine comes at a significant cost to the environment: The energy-intensive industry generates greenhouse gases that drive climate change and unrecyclable waste that packs landfills. Efforts to reduce the environmental impact are gaining momentum in the...
by William Jester | Feb 5, 2024 | Community, News
New research may create some respite for sufferers of two medically unexplained fatigue-inducing conditions: myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). The conclusion, and the methods used to reach it, could inform how these and...
by William Jester | Feb 4, 2024 | Community, News
A breakthrough microscopic technique that can detect minute particles of plastic in bottled water that can pass into human blood, cells and the placenta with unknown health effects has been developed by a team of researchers from Rutgers Health and Columbia...
by William Jester | Feb 2, 2024 | Community, News
School connectedness – the degree to which students feel part of their school community – influences more than grades. For Black students, it’s a protective factor against depression and aggressive behavior later in life, according to a Rutgers University-New...
by William Jester | Feb 1, 2024 | Community, News
New findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience have shed light on a mysterious pathway between the reward center of the brain that is key to how we form habits, known as the basal ganglia, and another anatomically distinct region where nearly three-quarters...