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Brain-Wave Data and Hearing Test May Help Diagnose Autism Earlier.
Brain-wave data collected during a hearing test routinely given to newborns could help clinicians spot neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism in early infancy, according to a new Rutgers-led study. Researchers found that newborns who later received an autism...
Student-Run Health Clinic Emphasizes Socially Conscious Care.
On the Newark campus of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, a health clinic run by medical students has been changing lives—and no doubt saving them—for more than 50 years. The Student Family Health Care Center serves the severely underserved: city residents who...
Join NJ ACTS BERD Workshop Series on March 9th
The Gap-Closing Estimand REGISTER HERE March 9th from 2:30 -4 pm Target Audience: This workshop is designed for researchers familiar with basic statistics (e.g., regression). Programming examples will use R, but the underlying causal concepts will be accessible to...
Time to Step Up and Fight Cancer in Africa.
Cancer kills nearly 10 million people a year, but the risk of dying from cancer varies greatly depending on where in the world you live. About 70% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries – and the disparity is worsening. A Lancet Oncology Commission...
Princeton cancer researchers find that tumors’ metabolism is slower than suspected.
They hypothesized that it consumes a great deal of energy, churning through nutrients and putting healthy tissue — the heart, the liver, the pancreas — at a disadvantage as the metabolic system spreads the nutritive wealth. But in a new study, researchers from...
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...
Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden receives $1M grant to launch first-of-its-kind training academy.
Despite dire staffing shortages, it has never been more difficult to become a nurse. In 2021, while patients languished in emergency room hallways—awaiting beds that sat unused—nearly 92,000 qualified applicants were turned away from nursing programs due to...
New Tobacco Product Marketing Depends on Demographics.
A study by the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center will help establish policy on the sale and marketing of two different tobacco products recently introduced to the United States market. The study, published...