Deaths from opioid overdoses are increasing in New Jersey especially in low-income neighborhood where the opioid reversal drug naloxone is expensive and difficult to obtain, according to Lewis Nelson, chair of the emergency medicine department at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Read about a new Rutgers study that found that life-saving drugs are more availble for people living in wealtheir towns, not poorer communities.
Read about a study led William Kostis, an associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Cardiovascular Institute, that found heart attack patients treated at hospitals with low care scores are at greater risk for another heart attack, or even death due to cardiovascular causes.
Did you join the crowd at Rutgers Day? Check out highlights from Saturday's event that drew about 94,000 people to New Brunswick, Newark and Camden for more than 600 free performances, demonstrations and interactive activities to celebrate all things Rutgers. Hope to see you again next year!
Simmi Sharma has been interested in fianance since learning about the Great Recession in high school. When she came to Rutgers, programs like Rutgers Road to Wall Street, Women BUILD, the Student Managed Fund and the Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers helped Sharma figured out what she wants to do after graduation and how to do it. Read the latest in our series profiling members of the Class of 2019.
Major criminal justice reforms such as removing mandatory fines, providing relief for poor defendants and assessing the ability to pay would go far in correcting a criminal justice system that punishes low-income people, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds.
If Rutgers alumna Jennifer Jones-Damis could tear down the existing criminal justice system and design a new one from scratch, her first priority would be to create safe spaces for the youngest offenders populating the nation’s jails and prisons. Read about her work providing mental health services for 18-21-year-olds at Rikers Island.
Fae Cushing, who struggled for decades with addiction and mental illnesses, is now giving others the tools to get well. Read more about Cushing, who is graduating summa cum laude from Rutgers School of Health Professions as she prepares to work toward a master’s degree in mental health and wellness counseling, the latest in our series profling members of the Class of 2019.
Read about a study by researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School that found physicians are scaling back on prescribing antibiotics for long-term acne treatment in favor of a combination of therapies to address concerns about the overuse of antibiotics.
For scores of wild bee species, females and males visit very different flowers for food – a discovery that could be important for conservation efforts, according to Rutgers-led research.
Read about a new web-based training program that teaches psychiatry residents how to assess and intervene with tobacco addiction in patients – which accounts for 50 percent of deaths among people with mental illness – developed by researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Gov. Phil Murphy urged the public to view gun violence prevention as a public health issue, not a political issue, and stressed the importance of using data-driven research during the first public event of the New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research. Read about the center's launch and the governor's announcement of a new initiative with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
