New Jersey Medical School In The News
Highlights from 2017
“This Year’s Flu Season” – Star Ledger
The dreaded H3N2 is in full force in New Jersey, with one person already killed from a flu-related illness.
The Christmas Call
The Star-Ledger - On Christmas day, a group of students receive an unexpected gift from Dr. George F. Heinrich.
How to Treat New Year's Eve Hangovers
Asbury Park Press - Here are 8 tips on how to avoid and treat them recommended by Dr. Petros Levounis.
CDC Designates GTBI as "National Center of Excellence"
Inside NJMS - Dr. Alfred Lardizabal quotes “...funding will help us achieve our mission to advance tuberculosis care through excellence in research, practice and teaching.”
2017 HIV/AIDS Statistics
WalletHub - Read Dr. Lee B. Reichman's interview on HIV/AIDS.
WalletHub: 2017 HIV/AIDS Statistics – Facts on Rates, Cost & More
Lee B. Reichman, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Executive Director Emeritus of the Rutgers Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers NJMS, quoted
Tap Into: Trinitas and Rutgers Announce Medical School Sponsorship
The Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) is the new sponsor of the Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Programs of Trinitas Regional Medical, announced officials. The alliance will enhance medical education and patient care at Trinitas.
News Medical: People who use indoor firing ranges at risk of lead poisoning
Diane Calello, New Jersey Poison Control Center Executive and Medical Director at Rutgers NJMS, quoted
Rutgers Today: Four Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of AAAS
Vivian M. Bellofatto, interim chair, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, at RBHS, featured.
Helping clinicians curb opioid crisis
Rutgers Today spoke to conference organizer Erin Zerbo, an assistant professor in the medical school’s department of psychiatry who also has a large outpatient buprenorphine practice, about the important role that clinicians have in addressing the rising death rate attributed to opioid use.
Rutgers Today: Helping Clinicians Curb the Opioid Crisis
Part of the solution to curbing this rate, say experts at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, is to train and give clinicians - who are often on the front line of detecting opioid use disorders - the tools to act immediately when they encounter a patient in their office who needs treatment.
Newswise: Lead Poisoning a Risk at Indoor Firing Ranges
Diane Calello, New Jersey Poison Control Center Executive and Medical Director at Rutgers NJMS, quoted
Healthline News: Should Everyone Be Trained to Be Emergency First Responders?
Adam Fox, D.O., Assistant Professor of surgery at New Jersey Medical School, quoted.
NJSpotlight: Indoor Shooting Ranges Targeted as Sources of Lead Poisoning in Adults
This trend prompted the poison center, a division of Rutgers NJ Medical School, to remind the public of the dangers associated with lead poisoning in general and indoor shooting in particular.
Rutgers Today: Rutgers Investigates Deadly Emerging Fungal Infection
The Rutgers team - led by David Perlin, executive director and professor of the Public Health Research Institute at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and postdoctoral fellow Milena Kordalewska - will identify a new way to rapidly and accurately detect C. auris in swabs from patients and hospital environments.
Scientists from NJMS helped find DNA damage caused by Gulf War Syndrome.
Laboratoryequipment.com: Gulf War Syndrome DNA Damage Found by Rutgers, VA Scientists
Salon.com: Trump guts critical health care for the poor - and nobody noticed
Glenn Fennelly, MD, Chair of Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at NJMS, quoted.
NJ.com: How fentanyl went from obscurity to N.J.'s most dangerous drug
Last year, fentanyl killed nearly 900 people in New Jersey alone. This is how a prescription drug used to treat end state cancer patients has emerged as New Jersey's deadliest drug.
EMS1: Trauma surgeon takes lead on campaign to train police, bystanders on bleeding control
The team, led by Rutgers New Jersey Medical School trauma surgeon Adam Fox, is partnering with EMS providers from University Hospital to conduct the largest "Stop the Bleed" campaign in the state.
New Brunswick Patch: Rutgers Teaches Public How To Stop Blood Loss In Mass Shootings
Adam Fox, D.O., Assistant Professor of surgery at New Jersey Medical School and his "Stop the Bleed" team has taught emergency bleeding response techniques to about 500 law enforcement officials and members of the public over the past two years.
Evaluating a Drug-Susceptibility Test for TB
David Alland, MD Associate Dean, Clinical Research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Roommates, Then and Now
NJMS students Angelica Lopez and Elizabeth Batista have so much in common, they were destined to follow similar paths
Empowering Bystanders to Act as First Responders
Adam Fox, D.O., Assistant Professor of surgery at New Jersey Medical School and his "Stop the Bleed" team has taught emergency bleeding response techniques to about 500 law enforcement officials and members of the public over the past two years.
MyCentralJersey.com (Home News Tribune/Courier-News): Rutgers trauma physicians empower bystanders to act as first responders
The team, led by trauma surgeon Adam Fox from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and EMS from University Hospital, are directing the largest “Stop the Bleed” campaign in the state, teaching laypeople basic skills of hemorrhage control for immediate, on-the-scene care.
Evaluating a Drug-Susceptibility Test for TB
David Alland, MD
Associate Dean, Clinical Research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
North Jersey: Bergen Regional Medical Center Gets New Name, New Management As Care Plus Takes Charge
Daily operations at New Bridge Medical Center have officially been taken over by Care Plus Bergen, a partnership formed by New Jersey Medical School, Integrity House, and Care Plus NJ Inc.
Rutgers Community Comes to Aid of Hurricane Victims
Adam Fox, D.O., Assistant Professor of surgery at New Jersey Medical School, traveled to Houston immediately after the storm to provide critical relief.
Nature: How The Internet Of Cells Has Biologists Buzzing
Eliseo Eugenin, PhD, studies HIV at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, quoted
Rutgers Today: Memory Decline After Head Injury May be Preventing by Slowing Brain Cell Growth
Viji Santhakumar, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, quoted
Cancers connected to HPV - Are 9/11 first responders more at risk?
Mark Einstein, MD, Chair of OB/GYN and Assistant Dean of Clinical Research Unit at NJMS, quoted
CNN.com: 9/11 Dust Tied To Heart Risk In Children, Study Says
Pauline Thomas, MD, Professor, and Director of Preventive Medicine Residency at NJMS, quoted
WVU.Edu: Festival of Ideas presents 'Opioid Crisis in America' with Dr. Petros Levounis
Petros Levounis, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at NJMS, featured
DaileyMail.com: Forget Cosmetic Surgery, It's 'bone lift' that are the key to holding back the hands of time! Surgeons reveal preventing bones from drooping is the key to preventing wrinkles
Boris Paskhover, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at NJMS, featured
Daily Record: Police Dogs Face New Dangers From Fentanyl
Diane P. Calello, MD, Executive Director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, quoted
NJ.Com: 15 Sickened in 3 Weeks in N.J. From Eating Wild Mushrooms
Bruce Ruck, PharmD, DABT, Managing Director of NJ Poison Center, quoted
Rutgers Today: Worms May Hold Answers to Curbing Disease in Developing World
George Yap, PhD, Associate Professor of the NJMS Center for Immunity and Inflammation, and William Gause, PhD, Professor of Medicine at NJMS, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Director of Center for Immunity and Inflammation, mentioned
Adirondack Daily Enterprise: As Concussion Worries Rise, Scientists at Can-Am Are On The Front Lines
Jorge Serrador, PhD, associate professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience at NJMS, quoted
NorthJersey.com: Bergen County's Public Hospital To Extend Addiction Treatment
Robert Johnson, MD, FAAP, The Sharon and Joseph L. Muscarelle Endowed Dean of NJMS, mentioned
The Courier-Post: Fentanyl Danger has SJ First Responders on Edge
Diane Calello, MD, Executive and Medical Director of NJ Poison Center, quoted
Warren Patch: Warren Local Awarded $57K To Develop App For Medical Students, Physicians
Dan Nguyen of Warren Township, fourth-year NJMS student
Gerard D'Onofrio, fourth-year NJMS student
U.S. News: Does MS Affect Thinking Skills?
John DeLuca, PhD, Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, quoted
The New York Times: Gay and Transgender Patients to Doctors: We'll Tell. Just Ask.
John Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, quoted
WABC-TV: "Here and Now" on Infant Mortality
Onajovwe O. Fofah, MD, University Neonatologist and Vice Chair of Clinical Enterprise, Department of Pediatrics at NJMS, featured
NBC 10 News: Lyme Disease on Rise Amid Diagnosis, Treatment Controversy
Nikhat Parveen, PhD, Associate Professor at NJMS, quoted
NPR. Org: Focus On Infants During Childbirth Leaves U.S. Moms In Danger
Joseph Apuzzio, MD, Professor of OB-GYN at NJMS, quoted
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Alzheimer's, autism, anxiety could be treated with marijuana in NJ by 2018
Alex Bekker, MD, PhD, Chair of Anesthesiology at NJMS
Science Magazine: Rutgers researchers determine structure of Tuberculosis target drug
David Perlin, PhD, executive director Public Health Research Institute at NJMS, quoted
USA Today: Why 2017 may be a bad year for Lyme Disease
Jim Occi, researcher at NJMS, quoted
Rutgers Today: A Revolutionary Approach to Preventing Transmission of a Cancer-Causing Virus
Mark Einstein, MD, Chair of OB/GYN and Assistant Dean of Clinical Research Unit at NJMS, quoted
World Health Organization announces new TB testing
David Alland, MD, Associate Dean of Clinical Research at NJMS, featured
North Jersey.com: 2017 may be a very bad year for Lyme Disease
Jim Occi, researcher at NJMS, quoted
Consumer Reports: How to Protect Kids from Household Poisons
Bruce Ruck, PharmD, DABT, Managing Director of NJ Poison Center, quoted
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Crohn's disease scientist knows the disease as a patient, too
Karen Edelblum, Ph.D., Chancellor Scholar, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, quoted
myCentralJersey.com: Promising new treatment delivery methods for opioid addiction
Petros Levounis, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at NJMS, quoted
Rutgers Today: Rutgers' Open and Affordable Textbooks Project Saves Students Nearly $1.6 Million
Petros Levounis, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at NJMS, quoted
NJ.com: How Rutgers wants to lower the price of textbooks for students
Petros Levounis, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at NJMS, quoted
PR Web: Revolutionary Study on Preventing Transmission of Cancer-causing HPV Using CarraShield Labs' Divine 9 Lubricant Launches at Rutgers and Albert Einstein Medical Schools
Mark Einstein, MD, Chair of OB/GYN and Assistant Dean of Clinical Research Unit at NJMS, mentioned
The New York Times: Long-Term Opioid Use Could Depend on the Doctor Who First Prescribed It
Lewis Nelson, MD, Chair of Emergency Medicine at NJMS, mentioned
Boston Globe: He Says He Invented E-mail. Dispute Him at Your Own Risk.
Leslie Michelson, PhD, director of computer services at NJMS, quoted
Rutgers Student Leads the Way at Association of American Medical Colleges
Jose Medina, the son of Cuban émigrés, is also an activist, raising funds for cancer and volunteering to improve communities