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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 21-Sep-2025 00:11 ET (21-Sep-2025 04:11 GMT/UTC)

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 Health Sciences
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

Inhaling cannabis may greatly increase your risk of getting asthma

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If you’re looking to reduce your chances of developing lung disease, say experts at UC San Francisco, then it may be smart to avoid inhaling cannabis.

Journal

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Funder

NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute on Aging, VA VISN21, Simon Memorial Fund, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

19-Sep-2025

Not all heart attack patients receive the same type of care, researchers find

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While heart attack deaths have decreased in the past two decades, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black patients continue to experience the highest mortality rate, according to a new study from researchers at Penn State. 

Journal

JAMA Network Open

Funder

NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH/National Institutes of Health