For many women, a Pap test is just another part of an annual gynecological visit, with not much thought given to routine results. But if the test results come back with abnormal findings, what happens next? What do you do? That topic and more are part of a special series of seminars aimed at helping women learn more about current issues affecting their health.
Bayshore Community Hospital Foundation's record-breaking Wine & Spirits Tasting fundraising event hosted by Fern and Peter Esposito featured more than 300 guests and raised nearly $70,000 in support of Bayshore’s growing cardiovascular program.
With 100 years of research establishing that most breast cancer may well be virus-based, Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy has made answering that question her life’s work. The first and only breast cancer specialist to compile this encyclopedic research in one volume, remarks, “If there’s a virus that causes breast cancer, and a safe and effective vaccine that can prevent this disease, we need to know about it now, not in another 100 years.”
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researcher Justin Drake PhD, has been awarded $450,000 in grants to support a pair of three-year projects aimed at developing biomarkers to predict disease progression and guide treatment strategies for advanced prostate cancer using a combination of laboratory cancer models, computational and targeted mass spectrometry approaches.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is one of a few East Coast sites to offer a clinical trial investigating an experimental drug in the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). REGN1979 is designed to use the body’s own defenses to fight illness by helping T cells find and destroy B cells, including those cancerous B cells found in NHL and CLL. The goal is to determine how much of the drug can be given safely to patients who have the CD20 protein on their lymphoma or CLL cells.
For people contemplating a hip or knee replacement, the prospect of a long post-surgical recovery can be a daunting one. The grueling rehabilitation sessions, the frustration of re-learning everyday movements, the weeks of waiting to return to “normal”— it’s almost enough to make patients reconsider surgery. Now there is evidence that appropriate pre-surgical physical therapy — or “prehabilitation” — can help patients recover faster.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Riverview Medical Center, both part of Meridian CardioVascular Network, are the first hospitals in New Jersey to receive the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® Heart Attack Receiving Center Accreditation.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center, part of the Meridian Health family, is preparing to break ground this fall on the HOPE Tower Project – a $265 million dollar building development on the hospital’s east campus that will provide a new healing outpatient experience for the community. HOPE Tower’s expected date of completion is early 2018.
Long an innovator in broadening participation in the engineering education of underserved and underrepresented minorities, the Rowan University Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering now is taking a lead in transforming science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields for the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researcher XiangLin Tan, MD, PhD, has been awarded an $852,705 grant from the National Cancer Institute to explore the use of aspirin and a diabetes drug for prostate cancer prevention and control. Dr. Tan will examine the insulin-lowering effects of metformin and the anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin to see if the combination will prevent or delay the progression of prostate cancer, especially in obese men.
Sixty-one physicians affiliated with Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group, the faculty practice of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, were selected for the Best Doctors in America® List for 2015-2016. Only 5 percent of physicians in the United States earn this prestigious honor, determined by impartial peer review.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) has been named winner of the 2015 Equity of Care Award from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
Newly published research from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine explains why up to half of older adults who undergo general anesthesia develop postoperative delirium – the sudden onset of confusion, aggression or agitated behavior that could progress to dementia.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is joining forces with Atlantic Health System in offering patients with rare forms of cancer access to a precision medicine clinical trial. The research will utilize genomic analysis to identify abnormal changes in the genetic make-up of the cancer in order to better personalize treatments.
Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine presented findings at the “2015 Hurricane Sandy Conference: Translating Research into Practice,” showing that strong neighborhood relationships reduced the incidence of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among older adults exposed to Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that devastated the Northeast United States. The findings provide new information about how the neighborhoods where older adults live can be bolstered in the face of natural disasters.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center will host its annual Community Day and 5K run/walk on Sunday, September 13, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the hospital’s campus, located at 1945 Route 33 in Neptune.
Thanks to the generosity of former Warner-Lambert CEO and Chairman Melvin R. Goodes and his family, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) has established the only prize specifically recognizing scientists in Alzheimer’s drug discovery research. Mr. Goodes—who has been open about his own Alzheimer’s diagnosis—is an honorary member of the ADDF’s Board of Governors. He and his wife, Nancy, who is also on the ADDF’s Board of Governors, are outspoken advocates for Alzheimer’s research.
Bayshore Community Hospital Foundation will host the 7th Annual Wine & Spirits Tasting fundraising event on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Addison Park in Aberdeen.
Utilizing a pharmaceutical treatment for systolic heart failure, that is being tested in clinical trials, new research at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School determined the precise interaction between the drug and the cardiac myosin protein or the cardiac “motor,” forming a structure that regulates the contraction of cardiac muscle and allows the heart to efficiently pump oxygen-rich blood throughout the body.
Research coordinated by the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group and just published in the The New England Journal of Medicine, examines the outcomes of giving the chemotherapy drug docetaxel at the start of androgen deprivation therapy for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Results showed an increased survival of 13.6 months for patients treated with ADT plus docetaxel than with ADT alone.
Care2Caregivers marks its one-year anniversary of providing a lifeline to thousands caring for loved ones with dementia & Alzheimer's
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) announced an agreement with CAC (the High Cost Disease Fund of Colombia), an organization within the Colombia Ministry of Health, dedicated to addressing issues surrounding the significant budget impact of high cost diseases in the country.
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station is improving a variety thought to be lost to history.
Despite a significant decline in tobacco use by adults, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking rates in individuals with poor mental health remained the same for a decade, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine by researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Scientist Elena Belova of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and a team of collaborators have proposed an explanation for why the hot plasma within fusion facilities called tokamaks sometimes fails to reach the required temperature, even as researchers pump beams of fast-moving neutral atoms into the plasma in an effort to make it hotter.
Getting ready to send your child off to school for the first time or preparing an older child to go back to school can be a daunting task, especially if your child has diabetes.
Several physicians at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey have been named as a ‘Top Cancer Doctor’ by 'Newsweek' magazine. 'Newsweek' just released the list of the nation’s top physicians for cancer care in conjunction with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which publishes 'America’s Top Doctors.'
Rowan's School of Osteopathic Medicine has received a $2.55 million dollar HRSA grant to establish the New Jersey Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (NJGWEP). An coalition of several area organizations, Rowan’s NJGWEP is the only New Jersey based project to share in the $35.7 million HRSA awards this fiscal year.
At first, 13-year-old Christina Blumstein thought she had an ordinary headache. Was it a bout of carsickness? Too much screen time on her iPad? But a few hours later, Christina was comatose and in an ambulance – and her life was in grave danger. Until that night, nobody knew that Christina had been born with a rare clump of small, abnormal blood vessels in her brain called an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. She had suffered a stroke. A year later, she has almost completely recovered.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is leading a clinical trial examining if a certain dose of radiation given over a short period of time to the part of the breast affected by cancer is beneficial. The trial, known as the TRI-faction Radiotherapy Utilized to Minimize Patient Hospital Trips – or TRIUMPH-T Trial – will explore the effect of treating patients with radiation delivered over a shortened period of two to three days versus longer periods associated with traditional radiation therapy.
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is utilizing a new online evaluation tool to learn more about the personal characteristics of potential medical students. Called CASPer™, the online program is used by the school’s admissions team to screen medical school candidates for personal traits that may indicate the person’s potential for becoming a caring, compassionate and successful physician.
Rowan University and Bamboo Therapeutics, Inc. have entered into an asset transfer agreement to commercialize a novel gene therapy for the treatment of Canavan disease, a rare but devastating neurological disease that tragically takes a child’s life by age 10. Canavan disease is one of the most common and complex degenerative cerebral diseases in infants.
Robert Wood Johnson Health System and Barnabas Health have signed the definitive agreement which outlines the merger between these two leading health systems. Once complete, the transaction will create New Jersey’s largest health care system and one of the largest in the nation -- to be known as RWJ Barnabas Health.
PPPL Engineer Chuck Kessel wins IEEE Fusion Technology Award.
The Auxiliaries at Southern Ocean Medical Center recently announced their pledge to raise $2.5 million that will support the purchase of a TrueBeam™ linear accelerator, the most advanced radiation therapy technology, for the hospital.
While preparing for a colonoscopy, a patient hit “record” on his smartphone to make sure he heard the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. When he played back the recording he was shocked to find that while he lay unconscious, the surgical team had mocked him, told an assistant to lie to him, and then put a false diagnosis on his chart. This incident raises important questions about the authenticity and professionalism of medical professionals.
Connexient and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) announced this week the public launch of MediNavTM Navigator Edition 2.0. This makes RWJUH the first hospital in North America to deliver for its patients, visitors and staff the world's first true turn-by-turn indoor navigation smartphone application, with reliable indoor positioning accuracy of one to two meters.
Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, opened a one-of-a-kind Virtual Reality Center, poised to support R&D and find solutions to real-world problems in New Jersey and around the world.
Martha Lansing, MD, associate professor and vice chair of family medicine and community health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been named the Family Physician of the Year by the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians (NJAFP).
When a family finds itself in tough economic times, parents are likely to be more financially generous to a daughter than to a son. And the reason has to do with something parents often tell their adult children – they really want grandchildren. And researchers led by Kristina Durante of Rutgers Business School have found that evolution have made this urge instinctual - based on the higher statistical probability that a daughter will produce offspring than a son.
Ovarian cancer patients who are overweight or obese are often given less chemotherapy per pound of body weight in order to reduce the toxic side effects associated with higher doses, and this in turn may lower their chances of survival, according to a study by researchers at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) announced the Society’s 2015-2016 Board of Directors. The new officers and directors assume office on July 1, 2015.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a detailed model of the source of a puzzling limitation on fusion reactions. The findings, published this month in Physics of Plasmas, complete and confirm previous PPPL research and could lead to steps to overcome the barrier if the model proves consistent with experimental data.
A chemist who has made important discoveries in both the human brain and sustainable energy, a neurosurgeon who has done pioneering work mapping the “blueprint” of how humans speak and hear, and a computer scientist who has changed our understanding of the capacity of wireless networks are the three winners of the 2015 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, is pleased to announce that two of its oncologists and a research scientist are helping pave the way to an easier, more accurate, less invasive way to screen for the most common form of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the most common cancer in men worldwide and the number one cancer killer in the United States.
Rutgers University's collection of rare books by John Milton is open to the public and contains many surprises – including annotations by famous writers and possibly Milton himself
Rutgers University behavioral health experts help educators spot warning signs for suicide in training program
Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has demonstrated a novel method that scientists can use to manipulate the intrinsic – or self-generated – rotation of hot, charged plasma gas within fusion facilities called tokamaks.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researchers Bing Xia, PhD, and Eileen P. White, PhD, have been awarded a $2.4 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to explore the relationship between the cellular-survival mechanism of autophagy and tumor suppression function in hereditary breast cancers.
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