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Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.
Studying population-level patterns is important for identifying where disparities exist, but that doesn’t mean people’s bodies innately function differently. Read the Full Article.
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Miles' article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment titled, "Association of facility characteristics and substance use disorder outcomes at discharge from residential treatment." Individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) often have comorbid...
Rutgers Selected as Backup Center for New National 9-8-8 Mental Health Crisis Line
Rutgers operates the New Jersey Hopeline, the state’s first suicide prevention hotline. It’s one of 12 national backup centers that will triage overflow calls made to 9-8-8, a new national hotline for mental health crisis and suicide prevention. Read the Full...
Hospitals are required to post prices for common procedures. Few do.
Hospitals must list the cash prices for services like X-rays or medical tests online, according to federal law. A new study finds the rule is largely ignored. The Hospital Price Transparency Law is intended to make the hidden costs of services such as X-rays, medical...
Hazard NJ: For generations now, a tribe fights legacy left by polluter
A notorious Superfund site gets new legal challenge New Jersey has recently begun to focus on the environmental and social damage done by industrial pollution in what are known as environmental justice communities, frequently poor and largely communities of...
NIH All of Us Research Program data expansion bolsters trove of COVID-19 information
Researcher Workbench expands participant data to drive unique insights Health data from nearly 20,000 people who have had SARS-CoV-2 is now available to researchers across the U.S., opening new opportunities to study COVID-19 disease prevention, progression, and...
Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated — even long before Covid
Native American and Alaska Native populations were the only Americans to see no increase whatsoever in life expectancy in the two decades preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, living 73.1 years on average in 2019 — nearly six years less than white Americans. The study, is...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Hudson's article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research titled, "Demographic and Psychosocial Characteristics Associated With Use of a Prostate Cancer Survivorship Website: Implications From a Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial." Prostate...