Several physicians at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have been named as a ‘Top Doctor for Cancer Care’ by Inside Jersey magazine. Based on peer surveys, attributes such as clinical skills, training, years in practice, and achievements were measured.
Migraine researchers and clinicians are excited about a new class of drugs called Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) monoclonal antibodies, which are showing promise in preventing attacks in high-frequency episodic migraine and chronic migraine. Numerous studies on these medications are being presented at this week's American Headache Society scientific meeting.
Riverview Medical Center Foundation is proud to announce two substantial gifts, totaling $10 million, which will significantly impact the way health care is delivered in our community.
New release reports correlation between incidences of rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis with solar cycles.
Thanks to a $1-million commitment from the Give Something Back Foundation (GSBF), some 50 high school students will be able to attend Rowan University (Glassboro, New Jersey) at no cost for tuition or room and board.
The ISPOR 2015 “Scientific Achievement Awards” were announced on the second day of the meeting on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The ISPOR Awards Program is designed to foster and recognize excellence and outstanding technical achievement in pharmacoeconomics / health economics and outcomes research. In addition to scientific achievement, ISPOR also awards lifetime achievement and leadership awards to those who advance these disciplines in the field and by service to the Society.
Dr. David F. Sorrentino’s new appointment as chief of the division of neonatology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and director of the Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital marks a homecoming of sorts.
Researchers and clinicians worldwide working in migraine, headache and brain injury will share the field’s latest scientific advances at American Headache Society’s annual scientific meeting, June 18-21 in Washington, DC. Stories are embargoed until June 17.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have for the first time simulated the formation of structures called "plasmoids" during Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI), a process that could simplify the design of fusion facilities known as tokamaks. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have for the first time simulated the formation of structures called "plasmoids" during Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI), a process that could simplify the design of fusion facilities known as tokamaks. The findings, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, involve the formation of plasmoids in the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions. These round structures carry current that could eliminate the need for solenoids – large magnetic coils that wind down the center of today's tokamaks – to initiate the plasma and complete the magnetic field that confines the hot gas. "Understanding this
New Jersey International Film Festival, based at Rutgers University, has introduced audiences to hundreds of films not seen elsewhere. It celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer.
The Riverview Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the Third Annual Family Fireworks on the Navesink to support Riverview Medical Center Foundation. This fun-filled family event will be held at the DiPiero Family home, on the picturesque Navesink River, on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. the evening will include a BBQ buffet, a variety of food trucks, inflatable rides, games, and a breathtaking view of the fireworks show at 9:15 p.m.
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) held its 20th Annual International Meeting May 16-20, 2015 in Philadelphia. The Meeting marked ISPOR’s 20th anniversary and focused on the theme of Integrating Big Data, Patient Data, and Cost-Effectiveness into Clinical Practice: Promise and Prospects.
Research by Howard L. Kaufman, MD, FACS, associate director for clinical science and chief surgical officer at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and colleagues shows advanced-stage melanoma patients have significant improvement in durable response rate when treated with a genetically-modified form of a herpes virus, whose native form causes the common cold sore.
David Mulvihill, MD, chief resident of radiation oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, has been selected to receive a Young Investigator Award from the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Mulvihill will receive $50,000 to support his study entitled “Childhood Radiation Exposure from Interventional Cardiology Procedures and Subsequent Cancer Risk.”
Prolonged dependence on mechanical ventilation after critical illness is an emerging public health challenge; however, long-term outcomes are incompletely understood. Critical care and emergency medicine researchers at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital have published a study on the long-term outcomes for critically ill patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, a specialty journal of The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals.
Small amount of lithium produces surprisingly large improvement of performance of fusion plasma.
Issues surrounding cost effectiveness and related clinical questions were taken up in the Second Plenary Session at the ISPOR 20th Annual International Meeting, entitled, “Cost-Effectiveness and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Have We Reached a Tipping Point?”
The Women’s Heart Fund, whose mission is to educate people about the importance of heart health and raise funds for heart programs at Meridian Health recently hosted their most successful luncheon to date. The 9th Annual Spring Luncheon, held on May 15, 2015 was a record-breaking event for this committed group hosting more than 230 guests at the Riverhouse at Rumson Country Club and raising over $45,000.
Having contributed $1.4 million over the past decade to research efforts at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Century for the Cure charity bike ride is gearing up for another successful year to support early-stage studies in leukemia, lymphomas and kidney cancer.
Speakers at the 20th Annual International Meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), held May 18th to 20th in Philadelphia, discussed the status of the Learning Health Care System in their first plenary session, entitled “Taking Stock of the Learning Health Care System: What Have We Achieved and Why Does it Matter?”
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey investigators along with other colleagues have demonstrated that the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is generally well tolerated in those with small cell lung cancer, one of the most difficult to treat forms of lung cancer when it is in advanced stages. The results will be presented at the upcoming American Association of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
To encourage openness in research and the teaching of best practices in social science, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) announces that entries are being accepted for the new Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science. BITSS is an initiative of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Physicist Luis Delgado-Aparicio is the third PPPL scientist to win the prestigious Early Career Research Program grant.
Along with caring for and administering treatments to cancer patients, oncology nurses at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey engage in cancer research, mentor colleagues and develop education materials and programs for both patients and fellow nurses. To recognize the scope of their work, Cancer Institute nurses were celebrated this week with Oncology Nursing Excellence Awards.
Physicians at the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School conducted a study to determine if patients admitted to comprehensive stroke centers, as well as patients transferred to comprehensive stroke centers within 24 hours of initial hospitalization, were more likely to survive.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center – part of Meridian CardioVascular Network – became the first hospital in New Jersey to perform the newly approved Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Implant procedure, providing patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) an alternative to long-term “blood-thinning” warfarin medication.
Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH, professor and chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been elected to a two-year term as a member of the Executive Board of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is one of seven international sites to offer a clinical trial investigating the benefits of a debulking prostatectomy in men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized. The goal is to increase survival rates by potentially improving the effectiveness of other treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiation given after surgery.
A successful sales executive turns to Rutgers program to help others reclaim their lives
The New Jersey State Cancer Registry (NJSCR), under the direction of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the state Department of Health, has taken first place as one of only three Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program cancer registries in the nation to meet all 14 data quality indicators for excellence.
K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital recently hosted its Superhero Soiree event on Friday, April 17. Professional soccer star Christie Rampone presented the hospital’s Junior Ambassadors with the Hometown Hero Award. The superhero-themed fundraiser raised more than $140,000 in support of the children’s hospital, and attracted nearly 200 guests.
News release for PPPL paper on update to TRANSP code to better simulate the interaction between energetic particles and instabilities in fusion plasmas.
Responding to tremendous clinical growth at their center and the desire for nursing professionals to be well versed in oncology practice, nurses at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey developed a specialized Advanced Practice Nursing Fellowship Program to address these needs. The work is being presented as part of a poster presentation at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Annual Congress this week.
Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows genomic profiling identifies genomic mutations in a gene associated with a rare subset of breast cancer – mutations that cannot otherwise be identified with standard clinical analysis of cells and tissue. The findings, being presented at the AACR Annual Meeting could have therapeutic implications specific to this rare form of the disease, say the authors.
Unique collaboration between town and hospital benefits local seniors and enhances health care services for the community.
With the goal of educating the public about the dangers of sports-related concussion and the debilitating migraine attacks that often result, Daniel Newman has won first place in Nikon Inc.’s “I Am Next” contest, with a dramatic photo of his brother Eric, who has experienced the after-effects of sports-related concussions. Daniel’s entry rose to the top of more than 14,000 contest submissions.
Rowan University will host the New Jersey Big Data Alliance’s (NJBDA) second annual symposium on Wednesday, April 29, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m in the Eynon Ballroom in the Student Center on the Glassboro, New Jersey, campus. “Big Data and the Transformation of Society” will include a keynote address by Raymond Blum, Google’s “International Man of Mystery,” as well as panel discussions that delve into how Big Data (digital data) transforms transportation, healthcare and the workforce, as well as ramifications for privacy.
Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers School of Public Health shows more than a third of New Jersey high school students who engage in indoor tanning do so frequently and many would find it hard to stop the practice. Investigators also found that frequent indoor tanners were more likely to smoke and to engage in social media activities related to indoor tanning.
In 2011, Ocean Medical Center Foundation launched the Growing Together Capital Campaign dedicated to rebuilding and expanding the hospital’s busy emergency department. The campaign officially concluded in December 2014, proudly surpassing fundraising goals and bringing in a total of $10.5 million. This marks the largest campaign in the medical center’s history.
As part of an innovative program aimed at reducing unnecessary emergency room visits and hospital stays, teams comprised of a paramedic, critical care nurse and EMT have begun making house calls on heart patients soon after their discharge from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ.
What if a prostate cancer patient could learn which anti-cancer treatments would work best for him without having to swallow a single pill or endure a single intravenous line or injection? Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey involving the development of human organoid prostate models could have implications for how future therapy is guided for some of this population.
Dr. Alfred F. Tallia, professor and chair of family medicine and community health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, will play a new role in influencing how physicians are licensed in the United States.
The Women’s Heart Fund invites you to join them in their mission to educate the community about the importance of heart health by attending their 9th Annual Spring Luncheon. The event is on Friday, May 15, 2015 from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the Riverhouse at Rumson Country Club where Martha Weinman Lear, bestselling author of the widely acclaimed Heartsounds memoir will appear as a guest speaker.
They have been referred to as Open Table for medical appointments. Apps like ZocDoc and InQuicker make it as easy for patients to schedule visits to the doctor and trips to the emergency room via smartphones and laptops as it is to make online reservations at their favorite restaurants.
Professor provides tips for families whose children have just been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Current statistics on U.S. birth rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report a continued trend toward delayed motherhood. As fertility gradually declines in the 30s, particularly after age 35 (1), the risk of experiencing difficulty conceiving may increase.
NASA plans to send advanced material into space on Monday, April 13.
New research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shines a light on identifying ‘hot spots’ in drug-resistant mutations involving a certain protein found to influence cancer growth. The study appears in the current online edition of ‘Cell Reports.’
Dr. Douglas Mann is coordinating the first "psyching team" for the New Jersey Marathon & Half-Marathon and providing tips for runners dealing with race-related anxiety.
Hospital accredited by Joint Commission for hip and knee replacement program.
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