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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Dec-2025 06:11 ET (23-Dec-2025 11:11 GMT/UTC)

19-Sep-2025

Peace talks between Türkiye and the PKK offer a historic opportunity for environmental restoration

United Nations University
Reports and Proceedings

Peace Talks Between Türkiye and the PKK Offer a Historic Opportunity for Environmental Restoration

The ongoing conflict between Türkiye and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has caused significant ecological damage in the region. The recent call by the PKK leader for disarmament presents a unique chance for peace and environmental recovery. A new publication by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) emphasizes the importance of including environmental restoration in peace negotiations to ensure lasting peace and justice. The policy recommendations highlight the need to address ecological harm, involve local communities, and promote sustainable recovery models.

19-Sep-2025

U of A and UNM win joint $43.6M NIH award to help turn clinical research into practical medicine

University of Arizona, Office of Research and Partnerships
Grant and Award Announcement

The CTSA grant, the largest infrastructure and training award from the NIH, supports the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care.

Funder: NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

19-Sep-2025

$3.6M NIH grant to study brain patterns in children with ADHD, behavior problems

Penn State
Grant and Award Announcement

A team, led by researchers at Penn State, received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study brain patterns in children with ADHD and serious behavior problems in order to identify better and more precise ways to predict which children with ADHD will benefit from medication treatment.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

19-Sep-2025

Alpha cells moonlight as secret GLP-1 factories

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Current diabetes drugs often rely on GLP-1 receptor agonists, mimicking the hormone’s effect to stimulate insulin. The discovery by Duke University School of Medicine that pancreatic alpha cells produce bioactive GLP-1 suggests that harnessing or boosting this local hormone production might be a powerful and more natural approach to improving blood sugar control.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

19-Sep-2025

Study reveals why some medical cannabis patients use illegal products

University of Utah Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Access to unbiased medical information is linked to legal use, but high cost of legal products is a barrier for some patients. The new results will help keep patients safe by guiding interventions to promote access to safer, licensed products.

Journal: Journal of Cannabis Research
Funder: Utah Department of Health

19-Sep-2025

Experts explore AI’s future in health care at UTA

University of Texas at Arlington
Meeting Announcement

The University of Texas at Arlington will bring together experts and innovators at the fifth annual Texas Health Informatics Alliance Conference, exploring how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of health care.

19-Sep-2025

Federal grants support research on AI-driven protein design

University of California - Davis
Grant and Award Announcement

Two projects at the University of California, Davis, that use artificial intelligence to design and engineer proteins for industrial and health applications have been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation