Rutgers study of cadmium in pregnant women yields crucial insights into the placenta’s role in regulating toxin exposure. As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can adversely impact fetal development. Now, researchers at the Rutgers...
Rather than turn to vices such as alcohol and drugs, many people turned to new pursuits to cope with pandemic-related stresses, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, paints a more nuanced picture of how...
Climbing temperatures in the Arctic tundra are transforming inorganic mercury deposited by power plants and other industrial polluters, some of it inert for decades, into a neurotoxin that is accumulating in the region’s lake sediments, wetland ponds, soils and food...
Please read Dr. Jimenez’s article in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology titled, “Reach Out and Read Implementation: A Scoping Review.” Eighty percent of third-graders who live in poverty do not read at grade level. Third-grade reading...
Since the foreclosure crisis, Kathe Newman has been leading research into mortgage lending disparities in communities – work that will soon be expanded to include community organizations in Camden to better understand the challenges residents face in securing...
