by William Jester | Jan 30, 2023 | Community, News
A wide majority of New Jerseyans are at least somewhat in favor of expanding Medicare to provide basic health care coverage to every U.S. resident, not just seniors, a new poll shows. The Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Tuesday found 71% of Garden State adults support...
by William Jester | Jan 28, 2023 | Community, News
Researchers have developed a novel genome assembly tool that could spur the development of new treatments for tuberculosis and other bacterial infections. The new tool, which has created an improved genome map of one tuberculosis strain, should do likewise for other...
by William Jester | Jan 27, 2023 | Community, Covid, News
Rutgers will take the lead in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study seeking to define long COVID – a term used to describe lingering COVID-19 symptoms – in children, including its evolution and how often it occurs. The university is recruiting 150 participants...
by William Jester | Jan 26, 2023 | Community, News
Strong neighborhood connections reduced the negative impact of living alone on the death rates of older Chinese Americans, according to Rutgers researchers. The study, published in Social Science & Medicine, examined if neighborhood cohesion among Chinese...
by Pamela Dahlen | Jan 25, 2023 | Community, News
Advancing Patient Safety for Antipsychotic-Treated Children: Examining State Implementation of Safe Use Practices Greta Bushnell, PhD, MSPH Jim Lloyd, JD, MPP Tuesday, January 31, at 12 pm ET Greta Bushnell is a pharmacoepidemiologist and an Assistant Professor of...