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Rutgers Study Reveals the Most Effective Ways NJ Cities Responded During COVID Housing Crisis.
The New Jersey State Policy Lab at Rutgers University released a study of challenges faced by local governments seeking to quickly distribute emergency rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the city of Newark as a success story. Although housing...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Jude's article in Respiratory Research titled, "FFAR1 activation attenuates histamine-induced myosin light chain phosphorylation and cortical tension development in human airway smooth muscle cells." Obesity contributes to asthma diathesis by enhancing...
Americans are stuck in unhealthy pandemic habits. Here’s how to reboot
After two years of pandemic life, people have learned to cope in ways that have become stubborn, unhealthy habits. But there are positive steps we can take to reset a healthy lifestyle. Read the Full Article.
As Omicron Surged, Rutgers Nursing Undergraduates Headed to Frontlines.
COVID-19 was wreaking havoc again in late December and state health officials were worried. The Omicron variant was causing some of the highest case levels since the start of the pandemic, hospital beds were filling up and nurses and other health care workers were...
Doctors Are More Likely to Describe Black Patients as Uncooperative, Studies Find
Patients with diabetes are also more likely to be described as “noncompliant,” according to large studies of medical records. One study found that Black patients were two and a half times as likely as white patients to have at least one negative descriptive term used...
INSPIRE Diversifying Biomedical Research & Education
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Successful Careers in Academia Applications Open for the 2022-2023 Fellowship Cohort The INSPIRE ( IRACDA New Jersey/New York for Science Partnerships in Research & Education) Postdoctoral Program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical...
The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway.
Diversifying the physician workforce, long seen as one key to reducing the nation’s racial and ethnic health disparities, was a major focus of the landmark National Academies report “Unequal Treatment,” which 20 years ago examined how systemic racism leads to poorer...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Dave's article in Circulation titled, "Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes After Addition of SGLT2 Inhibitors Versus Sulfonylureas to Baseline GLP-1RA Therapy." Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and heart failure (HF)...