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February 14, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.
January 31, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.
November 26, 2012 | Story
RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research Rachel Kahn Best explores the impact of advocacy on federal funding for medical research.
October 19, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Food allergy impacts 8 percent of the nation’s children, corresponding to two children in every classroom or almost six million children in the country.
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines 53 diseases over 19 years to better understand how disease advocacy has impacted funding distributions, changed the perceived beneficiaries of policies, promoted metrics for commensuration, and made culture categories of worth more relevant to policy-making.
July 1, 2012 | News Release
The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones between 2007 and 2010 nearly doubled since 1994.
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study shows that approximately 1 in 11 Americans are affected by urinary stone disease. Overall prevalence of stone disease has increased since it was last measured in 1994.
June 7, 2012 | Story
RWJF Clinical Scholar says rise of kidney stones is linked to growing obesity epidemic.
April 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This approach was especially successful among African-Americans, who make up a large, and increasing, percentage of those in need of donated organs, but a relatively small portion of registered donors. Seventy-six percent of African-Americans who wa ...
April 2, 2012 | Journal Article
As several studies have shown, an association between periodontal disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD), regular dental care may be an important strategy for reducing the burden of CKD.