Not-So-Long-Distance Relationship Is Bridged by a Proposal
Dr. Marianne Jacob and Andrew Shenoy kept up a “distance relationship” for three years until she moved across the Hudson River to a New York hospital.
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April 30, 2021
New Brunswick, N.J., is fewer than 50 miles from New York City, but for Dr. Marianne Jacob and Andrew Shenoy, who were married April 17 at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Lower Manhattan, even that relatively small geographical gap was sometimes difficult to bear. From 2016 to 2019, the couple dated while separated by the Hudson River and three New Jersey counties.
Researchers address the importance of increasing efforts to limit indoor tanning among minors
There is substantial evidence that indoor tanning is associated with increased risk of skin cancer – the most common type of cancer nationwide according to the American Cancer Society. Public health officials and researchers have become increasingly concerned about the health risks posed by indoor tanning.
Researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey recently addressed the importance of increasing efforts to limit indoor tanning among minors in a viewpoint paper published in the April 28 2021 online edition of
JAMA Dermatology.
Carolyn J. Heckman, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is corresponding author and shares some insight.
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IMAGE: Martin J. Blaser, Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and professor of medicine and microbiology at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and director of the Center for. view more
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Martin J. Blaser, MD, has been awarded the 2020 Prize Medal by the Microbiology Society of Great Britain in recognition of his study of the microbiome and its interactions within the human body that provide protection against and lead to disease. Dr. Blaser, the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and professor of medicine and microbiology at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, joins a storied list of scientists, including Nobel Prize recipients, who also have been recognized with the Prize Medal due to the impact their work has had on medicine and the care of patients worldwide.
Dr. Eric Singer, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey associate chief of urology and urologic oncology and director of the Kidney Cancer Program, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
This distinction honors members for their extraordinary volunteer service and dedication to the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Singer, an expert in the management of kidney cancer, has been a member of ASCO since 2003 and has served on the ethics committee, clinical practice guidelines committee, annual meeting education committee and twice as a guideline chair. Singer works closely with his medical oncology and radiation oncology colleagues to offer patients an individualized and comprehensive cancer treatment plan that minimizes side effects and maximizes quality of life.
NEW YORK – Bariatric surgery can significantly reduce the risk of cancer in individuals with severe obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, say researchers, including an Indian American.