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New Tobacco Product Marketing Depends on Demographics.
A study by the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center will help establish policy on the sale and marketing of two different tobacco products recently introduced to the United States market. The study, published...
Join NJ ACTS for the NIH Fellowship Grant Writing Series on March 3rd!
Interested in increasing the quality of your NIH Fellowship grant submission? You are invited to attend the NIH Fellowship Grant Writing Series, brought to you by the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies and the Rutgers Office of Postdoctoral Advancement in...
Resilience to HIV-Related Stigma May Be Key to Ending the AIDS Epidemic.
Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult, if not impossible, to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers study. Once considered a death sentence, HIV/AIDS has evolved into a manageable...
Ozempic, Wegovy and the Evolving Weight-Loss Drug Market.
Ozempic, a diabetes drug, and its weight-loss counterpart, Wegovy, have been making a splash in headlines, the medical community and pop culture as the newest way to lose weight. Because of society's complicated, and often dangerous, relationship with diet pills, some...
Rutgers Specialists Show Facial Pain Can Be Unconnected to Teeth.
What’s the proper treatment for constant, inexplicable pain in the face, jaw or head that defies conventional dental treatment? According to researchers from the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, the answer varies widely from patient to patient. For one patient in a...
Nursing shortage and training shortfalls are linked in N.J. Can Rutgers be part of the solution?
Amid a crippling nursing shortage, thousands of potential nursing candidates are turned away each year from training programs throughout New Jersey. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the shortage — with nurses quitting or retiring in droves — but that’s only part...
She Helped Unlock the Science of the Covid Vaccine
Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19. Read the Full Article Photo credit: Kayana Szymczak for The New...
New Jersey Regulation Not Associated With Curbed Opioid Prescriptions or Shortened Usage.
Regulation designed to reduce prescription opioid pain medications in New Jersey may not have had the intended effect: A Rutgers analysis of Medicaid records found that progression from short-term to long-term opioid use did not decline following new legislation...