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Backed by a new $4.6 million award from the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers researchers are joining Michigan State University to launch a novel project to transform how medications are developed and prescribed for women. This is the first installment of an award worth up to $12.8 million over three years. Researchers from Emory, Tulane, University of Colorado, University of Michigan and the University of Utah are also collaborating with the MSU team to accomplish this goal.

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A study involving Rutgers researchers suggests violence prevention programs should give adolescents and younger adults safer strategies and more support. Nearly three-quarters of young people who witnessed or became aware of a firearm-related danger tried to help in some way, but many felt their efforts had little impact, according to researchers at Rutgers University, nonpartisan research institute NORC at the University of Chicago and the University of New Hampshire.