Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also disrupt sex hormones, a Rutgers laboratory trial shows that plastic itself can do likewise when inhaled at moderate levels. Previous studies focused on chemicals such as bisphenol-A (BPA) that make...
Please read Dr. Jude’s article in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology titled, “Obesity elicits a unique metabolomic signature in human airway smooth muscle cells.” Obesity can aggravate asthma by enhancing airway...
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in everyday life, concerns have grown around bias in its programming. Many of the tasks performed by AI are simple and innocuous, but as its capabilities expand, so does its potential for wide-ranging impact....
Please read Dr. Reichman’s article in JAMA Network Open titled, “Association Between Housing Affordability and Severe Maternal Morbidity.” In 2019, median housing costs grew faster than median household incomes for the eighth year in a row,...
To help people regulate their emotions in healthy ways, a Rutgers researcher pioneered the Storm/breaker Emotion and Behavior Management app as a standalone smartphone mental health intervention. Based on his research on emotion dysregulation and emotional cascades...