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Nine Dimensions of Authentic Community Engagement
Community engagement is a powerful tool for organizations that want to create lasting and positive change. When done well, community engagement builds trust, advances health equity, creates cost-savings and efficiencies for healthcare organizations, and leads to...
Rutgers study finds patients with schizophrenia are less likely to be rehospitalized when given antipsychotic injections.
Long-acting injectable medications for schizophrenia can decrease the likelihood of patient rehospitalizations, according to a new Rutgers University Health study. In their findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, researchers concluded that...
Taking Proactive Steps, Rutgers Provides Free Narcan to the Community.
Rutgers University is providing free Narcan kits supplied by the New Jersey Department of Human Services on its New Brunswick, Camden and Newark campuses as a preventive measure to enhance the safety and well-being of community members. Rutgers officials said the...
Drug Repairs Systems That Drain Alzheimer’s-Causing Waste From Brain, Study Shows.
A team of Rutgers undergraduates has shown that an experimental drug known as Yoda1 may help drain cranial waste plus neurotoxins that cause Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. “The brain’s lymphatic system is one of the hottest research areas in all of...
Low Pay Is Driving Primary-Care Doctors From New Jersey, Endangering State Residents.
A shortage of primary-care doctors endangers United States residents in general and New Jerseyans in particular, according to a report co-authored by Alfred Tallia, chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical...
Creating an International Hub and Talent Pipeline in Glass Science and Technology.
Ashutosh Goel, a professor in the School of Engineering's (SoE) Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) who also conducts research in Rutgers’ Corning Glass Science and Engineering Laboratory, is quick to point out how glass surrounds us. “Smartphones...
CDC Sharply Overestimates Maternal Death Rate, New Study Finds.
Maternal death rates in the United States may be sharply overstated as a result of faulty surveillance techniques, according to an analysis by researchers at Rutgers Health and other universities. The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) of the Centers for Disease...
Thinking post-Paxlovid: Rutgers researchers eye the next generation of COVID drugs.
Researchers at Rutgers University say they are showing early signs of progress toward a new treatment for COVID-19 that could work on future drug-resistant strains of the virus and represent a potential alternative to antivirals like Paxlovid. No one knows when...