Study identifies how changes in risk factors may be contributing to growing number of babies born prematurely Preterm births have increased by more than 10 percent over the past decade, with racial and socioeconomic disparities persisting over time,…
New NYU Meyers faculty member Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, and researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) are getting closer to being able to predict sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. In a study that appears Sept. 3 in JAMA Pediatrics,…
NYU Meyers welcomed seven new faculty members at the beginning of the 2024-25 academic year, who bring wide-ranging experience and expertise. Anthony Carney, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, who was most recently an assistant professor at the University of…
Vice Dean for Research Bei Wu, PhD, has won a $3.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to investigate biological and social links between oral health, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.Nearly seven million Americans live…
Two NYU obesity experts discuss the sharp rise of GLP-1 agonists and the structural issues medicines can’t fix A wildly popular class of drugs called GLP-1 agonists—which includes Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound—are revolutionizing the…
NYU Meyers Prof. Emerita and Senior Research Scientist Mathy Mezey, whose teaching, research and leadership transformed geriatric nursing, has been named a 2024 Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing, one of the highest honors in the…
Adult day centers provide community-based health and social services for older adults living at home, including many living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. While these centers have long been essential community resources, they…
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to train 5,000 health care professionals in providing age-friendly care for older adults in the Bronx.The project is…
Fifteen members of the NYU Meyers community have been named fellows of the National Black Nurses Association’s new Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing, which recognizes nurses who have advanced equity, diversity, inclusion and justice in nursing…
Allison Squires, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, is one of 18 health researchers chosen for a new policy project on climate change and global public health, a joint initiative of the US National Academy of Medicine…
Interviews with researchers involved in the project
