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Firearm Access and Gun Violence Exposure Are Common in Black and Native Communities.
A New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center study is the first to provide nationally representative data on gun use, storage and violence within Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN) families. Both Black and native communities have seen increasingly elevated...
Have concerns about Rutgers’ medical school merger? 2 deans have answers.
As the deans leading the process of merging Rutgers New Jersey Medical School with Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to form the new Rutgers School of Medicine, we hear from members of the community who have questions and concerns regarding what the merger will mean...
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Abdominal Fat Can Impact Brain Health and Cognition in High Alzheimer’s Risk Individuals.
The impact of abdominal fat on brain health and cognition is generally more pronounced in middle-aged men at high risk of Alzheimer’s disease as opposed to women, according to researchers at Rutgers Health. In middle-aged individuals with a family history of...
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Peptides for Weight Loss: What to Know, According to Experts.
Medications like Wegovy and Zepbound receive plenty of buzz for their ability to help people lose weight. The two have a few things in common, mainly, peptides for weight loss. Wegovy (semaglutide) belongs to a class of medications known as glucagon-like...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Vivek Kumar's article in Nature Communications titled "Antiviral fibrils of self-assembled peptides with tunable compositions". The lasting threat of viral pandemics necessitates the development of tailorable first-response antivirals with specific but...
Nine Dimensions of Authentic Community Engagement
Community engagement is a powerful tool for organizations that want to create lasting and positive change. When done well, community engagement builds trust, advances health equity, creates cost-savings and efficiencies for healthcare organizations, and leads to...
Rutgers study finds patients with schizophrenia are less likely to be rehospitalized when given antipsychotic injections.
Long-acting injectable medications for schizophrenia can decrease the likelihood of patient rehospitalizations, according to a new Rutgers University Health study. In their findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, researchers concluded that...
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Taking Proactive Steps, Rutgers Provides Free Narcan to the Community.
Rutgers University is providing free Narcan kits supplied by the New Jersey Department of Human Services on its New Brunswick, Camden and Newark campuses as a preventive measure to enhance the safety and well-being of community members. Rutgers officials said the...