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New NJACTS Publication
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, contributing to an ongoing...
Rutgers Researcher Develops Mental Health App to Manage Distress.
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...
Achieving Prevention and Health, Rather Than More Healthcare.
If more people have access to health insurance, we have to be sure the death rates of those with certain chronic conditions are decreasing. This is one of the statements Gregory Peck, an acute care surgeon and associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical...
Propelus I-Corps Training Program – Apply by May 15th!
Propelus I-Corps Regional Program - June 2023 Through the program, I-Corps provides training and grants to support team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries. Apply by May 15th....
Study Explains How “Zombie” Cancer Cells Revive Themselves.
Mutating cells can prevent the spread of cancer by flipping themselves into a state of reduced activity called senescence. Cancer genes, however, can retaliate by reviving those cells so they can replicate again. The mechanism for reviving senescent cells, sometimes...
Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health and Woods Services to Open Care Center for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Autism.
People with autism and intellectual disabilities historically have a life expectancy nearly 20 years less than the general population in part because of a lack of specialized care. To address these health inequities, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, the...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Kipen's article in RSC Advances titled, "Detection of respiratory inflammation biomarkers in non-processed exhaled breath condensate samples using reduced graphene oxide." Effective diagnosis and treatment of disease relies on accurate molecular tools...
Join NJ ACTS BERD Core on May12th for An Intro to AI Techniques for Forecasting Epidemic Dynamics!
REGISTER HERE Speaker: Dr. Lijing Wang Target Audience: Those interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and epidemiology. Workshop Description: This workshop covers the state-of-the-art for epidemic forecasting. It starts...