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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Dec-2025 04:11 ET (26-Dec-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)

3-Nov-2025

OHSU researchers identify new tools for early cancer detection, treatment

Oregon Health & Science University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new review by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute and other universities highlights how advances in New Approach Methodologies and tissue engineering are offering powerful new tools to study the earliest stages of cancer development. New Approach Methodologies use human-relevant technologies such as in vitro tests, organoids, organs-on-a-chip and computational modeling to replace, reduce or refine animal testing.

Journal: Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, U.S. National Science Foundation, American Cancer Society

3-Nov-2025

Louisiana Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes, ECHO, Collaboration secures federal funding renewal

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Grant and Award Announcement

Louisiana’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, or ECHO program, has secured a share of $13 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH. The award, which is for the program’s third award cycle, will support its efforts and research for five years.

Founded in 2016, Louisiana’s ECHO program unites researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Ochsner Health System, Tulane University, and LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans with leading pediatric clinicians at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. This collaboration brings together research capabilities and two free-standing children’s hospitals in the state, with a third under construction.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Nov-2025

Study: More states eliminating insurance hurdles for opioid use disorder medications

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Twenty-two states now prohibit prior authorization for opioid use disorder medications such as methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, up from two states in 2015. The upward trend signals a willingness by many state legislatures to address the opioid crisis.

Journal: Health Affairs
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

3-Nov-2025

Brains and stock markets follow the same rules in crisis, study finds

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Brains and stock markets might seem completely different, but they behave in surprisingly similar ways. Both are complex systems that normally operate in a delicate state of balance, a condition scientists call criticality, where they function at their most flexible, efficient, and informative. When that balance is disrupted, the system can suddenly tip into crisis, losing those advantages. A University of Michigan team discovered that both types of transitions occur not only in the brain during anesthesia as patients lose and regain consciousness, but also in financial markets as they collapse and recover during economic crises.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Research Foundation of Korea

3-Nov-2025

A specific human gene can help the heart repair itself from heart attack or heart failure

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

First-ever discovery by Hina Chaudhry, MD of Mount Sinai could lead to new and less invasive treatments

Journal: npj Regenerative Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, New York Stem Cell Foundation