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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 9-Sep-2025 20:11 ET (10-Sep-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

3-Sep-2025

NIH award funds UMD research to improve sharing between electronic health records

University of Maryland
Grant and Award Announcement

It’s a common “medical” complaint: You switch to a new doctor and find that electronic health records from your old clinic or from urgent care or specialist visits have not moved with you – leading to a déjà vu of filling out the same forms you’ve filled out a hundred times before. But beyond the form frustration, what does it mean for your health when your providers aren’t seeing your complete medical history? Now, thanks to a $1.4 million NIH grant, co-led by the University of Maryland School of Public Health (SPH), researchers are working to answer that question.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Sep-2025

Groundbreaking study suggests that mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random

University of Haifa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more frequently where it is needed to prevent disease, fundamentally challenging the notion that evolution is driven by random mutations and tying the results to a new theory that, for the first time, offers a new concept for how mutations arise.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

3-Sep-2025

Updated food reactivity tool explains why we eat what we see

George Mason University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Martin Binks, metabolic disease expert, created a novel food cue image bank that will produce more accurate and consistent food-related brain response research

Journal: International Journal of Obesity

3-Sep-2025

September issues of APA journals feature new research on trends in ADHD medication, telehealth prescribing of controlled substances, psychiatric genetics, and more

American Psychiatric Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The latest issues of two American Psychiatric Association journals (The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services) are now available online.

Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry

3-Sep-2025

Young people want adults to be involved in their digital lives

Karolinska Institutet
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Young people have a nuanced view of how their digital lives affect their mental health and want more support and involvement from the adults around them. This is shown in an international study published in The Journal of Adolescent Health by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with UNICEF.

Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health

3-Sep-2025

Infectious disease modelling teams invited to strengthen global response to highly pathogenic avian influenza

Biofaction (Austria)
Business Announcement

An international modelling challenge is calling on experts across disciplines to help tackle one of Europe’s — and the world’s — most pressing health threats: highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The initiative, which is now open for applications, seeks to improve outbreak modelling readiness and to foster international collaboration among researchers and decision makers from academic, government, and other backgrounds worldwide. Modelling teams from academia, public health, the private sector or other backgrounds are warmly invited to participate and participation is free.

Funder: Horizon Europe

3-Sep-2025

BU researcher awarded NIH grant to address disparities for firearm violence victims

Boston University School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Dane Scantling, DO, MPH, FACS, assistant professor of surgery at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a three-year, $500,256 K08 grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to fund his project, “Improving access to trauma care for victims of firearm violence.”