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January 24, 2013 | Story
Clinical Scholar, Sheldon Retchin, MD, was interested in "a phenomenon that was called 'labeling' - basically the consequences of receiving a diagnosis and the psychological consequences of the diagnosis."
March 10, 2011 | Story
Computers, biomarkers, risk assessments and other new tools are redefining how we measure disease and the ways medical professionals diagnose and treat patients.
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Debbie Chatman Bryant, DNP, RN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
While children with persistent asthma symptoms are treated similarly regardless of insurance status, insured children with intermittent symptoms are more likely than uninsured children to be diagnosed and receive treatment, suggesting insuring more asthmatic children is unlikely to result in treatment cost savings.
June 18, 2012 | Story
Do we really know the best way to test for Alzheimer's disease? A grantee's new research shows that there's more work to be done.
May 2, 2012 | News Release
Current research does not support the use of smell tests for predicting Alzheimer’s dementia, according to a comprehensive review by RWJF Clinical Scholars.
March 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A fundamental task of medicine is stratifying people into clinically meaningful categories. The term “stratifying” describes how physicians divide the sick from the well and then divide the sick into different stages of disease. In other words, the ...
April 20, 2011 | Journal Article
Current tests for chronic kidney disease (CKD) only assess creatinine levels which vary according to muscle mass, age and race. This study evaluated a triple-marker test (creatinine, albumin-to-creatinine ratio, and cystatin C) for CKD.
December 13, 2011 | Story
But it may not reduce acute care and emergency department utilization.
August 29, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The United States is experiencing a longevity revolution. First, Americans are living longer. At the start of the 20th century, 4 percent of the U.S. population was over 65. Now, the proportion is 13 percent and by 2050, it will be 20 percent. Secon ...