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For New Moms Who Rent, Housing Hardship and Mental Health Are Linked.
Becoming a parent comes with lots of bills. For new mothers, being able to afford the rent may help stave off postpartum depression. “Housing unaffordability has serious implications for mental health,” said Katherine Marcal, an assistant professor at the Rutgers...
Rutgers Health at 10: Addressing Health Inequities Today – and Tomorrow.
When the Rutgers Global Health Institute was created in 2017, its leaders had a question for colleagues on campus: How many were engaged in global health? To find out, the institute did what any group of scientists seeking answers might do: It conducted a survey. Even...
Depression During Pregnancy is Tied to Increased Emergency Department Visits for Infants After Birth.
Mild and moderate to severe perinatal depressive symptoms among new mothers are associated with the increased use of emergency rooms to treat their infants, according to Rutgers Health research. The study, published in the April issue of Health Affairs, examines the...
Nanoplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and early death, study finds.
People with microplastics or nanoplastics in their carotid artery tissues were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from any cause over the next three years than people who had none, a new study found. Carotid arteries, which lie on each side of the...
Launch of the Rutgers Health Service Corps.
Second-year medical student Kritika Sharma spent the past semester volunteering at University Hospital in Newark to help women screen for breast cancer. She was part of a team of students at New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health providing cancer screening...
Supreme Court Ruling Leads to Access Issues for Reproductive Care.
While the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in 2022 allowed states to limit or ban abortion access, its effects have included many Americans losing access to non-abortion reproductive services such as in vitro fertilization (IVF),...
AI-Powered Surgical Training Program Provides Real-Time Feedback and Instruction.
Practice makes perfect, and a new system being tested and perfected enables surgical trainees to obtain cutting-edge instruction in real-time through a new artificial intelligence program. As medical students conduct surgical exercises, the AI software scans a live...
Bizarre COVID-19 Pandemic Beliefs Linked to Stress, but Purpose, Hope, and Support Could be Antidote, Say Researchers.
As Americans look back on the fourth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Rutgers University–Newark sheds light on why some people succumb to conspiracy theories and bogus beliefs and others don't. Studies by psychologists Kent Harber and Valeria...