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Rutgers University behavioral health experts help educators spot warning signs for suicide in training program

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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.

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A successful sales executive turns to Rutgers program to help others reclaim their lives

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Rutgers’ School of Public Health program shows families with developmentally disabled adults the opportunities for more independent living.

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A new book by a Rutgers pediatric neurologist and geneticist uses plain language to help parents of children on the autism spectrum maximize their office visits

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Teenager starts fundraising campaign at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey by shaving his head.

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What the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act really means for veterans seeking mental health care

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A liver transplant and the right follow-up care have Mati Muñoz, a patient at the liver transplant center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, feeling younger and stronger at 65 than she has felt in a decade.

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Care2Caregivers provides a peer-support lifeline to people caring for loved ones with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

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A Rutgers University infectious diseases expert discusses the myths and facts of the measles outbreak and the “vaccine gap” that has put certain adults at risk.

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A Rutgers respiratory therapist spends her vacations in Mexico and along the U.S. border as a health educator

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Nükhet Varlik, a Rutgers historian, has studied the Black Death – the medieval plague that may have wiped out more than half of the population in vast parts of the world – and found echoes from centuries past in issues such as the spread of deadly diseases including Ebola, human interactions with the environment, climate change and other dilemmas that affect human health today as much as they did in the Middle Ages. There is much we may be able to learn about modern times from what Professor Varlik has found.

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Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, a nationally recognized researcher in the fields of health disparities and nicotine addiction in minority populations, has been chosen as dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, effective April, 2015. Currently, he is professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, where he was recruited in 2005 to become the founding executive director of the Office of Clinical Research.

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It's a simple premise -- now backed up by more evidence than ever: "Why give more blood to anyone if you can’t show it benefits them?" Jeffrey Carson of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has found that for many patients, smaller blood transfusions after surgery are at least as beneficial as larger ones, both in the short term and the long term. His study is published in The Lancet.

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Rutgers researcher David Alland, working with the California biotechnology company Cepheid, has received a grant of nearly $640,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid test to diagnose Ebola as well as other viruses that can cause symptoms similar to Ebola. Alland and Cepheid previously used technology similar to the planned Ebola test to develop a rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) that is now widely used in impoverished areas of the world.

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Inspired by her grandmother’s battle with breast cancer, a high school student raises money for Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey with her classical Indian dance graduation event

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During the warm months of the year, ladybugs are delightful to have around. Then fall arrives and the ladybugs need to find warmth, which is most available inside people’s homes – where they often descend in large numbers. Suddenly they’re not as cute to many people as they seemed outdoors. But Jessica Ware, an insect expert and assistant professor of biology at Rutgers University-Newark, says having ladybugs indoors serves a very useful purpose, and humans should welcome their temporary houseguests.

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In the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was a new, mysterious and inevitably fatal illness, Dr. James Oleske of what is new Rutgers New Jersey Medical School earned renown for caring for children who would inevitably die from AIDS, and for uncovering some of its important secrets. With HIV under much better control, Oleske has now turned his attention to being a champion of palliative care for children who are terribly ill with other fatal conditions.

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According to a Rutgers art historian, Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne’s “secret” wife, changed the course of modern portraiture.

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A new method of developing vaccines could point the way forward in the fight against infectious diseases for which traditional vaccination has failed, according to a new Rutgers study. The method involves training white blood cells that have not previously been the primary focus of vaccine development. William Gause, senior associate dean for research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, led the study, which recently was published in the journal Nature Immunology.