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Even modest amounts of physical activity may slow Alzheimer’s disease among at-risk older adults

Mass General Brigham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Increasing your steps by even a little bit may help slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease among people at heightened risk, according to a new study.

Journal: Nature Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

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

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

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

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

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