EurekAlert! National Institutes of Health

Latest news releases from NIH-funded organizations

Funded Research News

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-May-2025 23:10 ET (15-May-2025 03:10 GMT/UTC)

8-Apr-2025

Public housing smoking ban reduced heart attacks and strokes

Oxford University Press USA
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new paper in Nicotine & Tobacco Research finds that a 2018 U.S. ban on smoking in public housing led to a reduction in hospitalizations for cardiovascular problems.

Journal: Nicotine & Tobacco Research
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

7-Apr-2025

Fees can help the FDA ensure food safety

New York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collects user fees from drug and medical device companies to fund its work ensuring the safety of these products. Creating a similar program that collects fees from food companies could generate much-needed resources to strengthen the FDA’s oversight of foods, according to a new legal and policy analysis published in the journal Health Affairs.

Journal: Health Affairs
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

7-Apr-2025

Medically tailored meal programs could yield significant health care savings across 49 US states

Tufts University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Simulation model estimates that Food is Medicine programs, if implemented nationwide, could save approximately $32.1 billion in health care costs in the first year alone and prevent more than 3.5 million hospitalizations annually related to complications from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Journal: Health Affairs
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

7-Apr-2025

Childhood experiences shape the brain’s white matter with cognitive effects seen years later

Mass General Brigham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mass General Brigham investigators have linked difficult early life experiences with reduced quality and quantity of the white matter communication highways throughout the adolescent brain. This reduced connectivity is also associated with lower performance on cognitive tasks.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

7-Apr-2025

Tulane researchers use AI to improve diagnosis of drug-resistant infections

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tulane University scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The breakthrough could lead to faster and more effective treatments and help mitigate the rise of drug-resistant infections, a growing global health crisis.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Defense, Lavin-Bernick Award of Tulane University