About half of cigarette smokers and young adult non-smokers think that nicotine-based electronic cigarettes have the same amount or even more harmful chemicals than regular tobacco-based cigarettes, according to a Rutgers study.
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No Menthol Sunday on May 21 is an annual observance led by the Center for Black Health & Equity to encourage communities to address the detrimental impact of tobacco on Black communities and ask faith leaders to educate their congregants about smoking and the role of menthol and flavored products.
Black adults – particularly Black women – with higher levels of education and experiences of discrimination and crime are more likely to own a firearm, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers.
Rutgers School of Public Health and Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts have partnered with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) to launch the interdisciplinary Arts in Health Research Lab. This first-of-its-kind collaboration between a performing arts center, a school of the arts and a school of public health will break new ground in the emerging field of arts in health.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved naloxone nasal spray (Narcan)—a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose—for over-the-counter use.
The increased availability of naloxone will help underserved communities, but the price of Narcan could increase and stigma for people who use opioids may remain, according to a new editorial by Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa, associate dean for community engagement and public health practice and an associate professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health. The editorial was published in the The BMJ.
Rutgers study finds that searches in Spanish were more stress-inducing than English equivalents