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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Apr-2025 04:08 ET (29-Apr-2025 08:08 GMT/UTC)

NIH announces prize winners in year-long challenge to develop fetal diagnostic and monitoring technologies

NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
Grant and Award Announcement

NIH has announced winners of the RADx^® Tech Fetal Monitoring Challenge, a $2 million prize competition to speed development of innovative medical technologies for fetal health diagnosis, detection and monitoring.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Researchers identify key mechanism in human lung development

University of Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers of the University of Barcelona and the August Pi y Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The results of the study, which used organoids derived from embryonic lungs, open up new perspectives on how this organ develops and lay the foundations for future strategies for both prevention and treatment of lung diseases, especially in neonatal respiratory pathologies. The study, published in the journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy, is led by Alfons Navarro, professor at the UB’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and researcher of the IDIBAPS research group on Inflammation and Repair in Respiratory Diseases.

Journal: Stem Cell Research & Therapy

Weill Cornell Medicine receives grant to fund pain control research for critically ill children

Weill Cornell Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Chani Traube, the Gerald M. Loughlin, MD Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a $3.4 million grant, with the possibility of extending to a total of $17 million over five years, from the National Institutes of Health, for a large-scale clinical trial called Optimizing Pain Treatment in Children on Mechanical ventilation (OPTICOM).

Study finds traditional open surgery for lymph node removal remains gold standard for testicular cancer

Regenstrief Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With the goals of informing surgical management, improving long-term outcomes and lowering death rates of patients with testicular cancer, a study led by urologist and health services researcher Clint Cary, M.D., MPH, MBA, of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, has found that the conventional, versatile open surgery approach to removal of the lymph nodes behind the intestines for patients whose testicular cancer has not advanced beyond the abdomen is the gold standard of care for men in this condition.

Journal: BJU International

Two topical treatments show similar improvement in age spots on hands

Wolters Kluwer Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Topically applied products containing human platelet extract or vitamin C provide similar improvements in age spots (photoaging) of the hands, as reported in a clinical trial within the November issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Journal: Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

$75 million donation from AbbVie Foundation to support UChicago Medicine’s new cancer pavilion

University of Chicago Medical Center
Business Announcement

The AbbVie Foundation, a nonprofit working to advance health equity, is donating $75 million to UChicago Medicine to support the $815 million cost to construct a state-of-the-art cancer care pavilion, the first and only freestanding facility of its kind in Illinois.

BfR Consumer Monitor: The majority of Germans are aware of the "sleep hormone" melatonin, but many are skeptical

BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Reports and Proceedings

The BfR Consumer Monitor is a central instrument of consumer health protection. As a representative population survey, it provides answers every six months to the question of what the public thinks about consumer health protection issues. The substance melatonin was a topic in the BfR Consumer Monitor for the first time. The body's own "sleep hormone" is available as a prescription-only medicine and in over-the-counter food supplements. Melatonin is said to promote sleep. But how well known are melatonin supplements to the general public? The survey revealed that 56 per cent have heard of them. "Among those who are familiar with melatonin-containing food supplements, opinion is divided," explains BfR President Professor Andreas Hensel. "Half have reservations, the other half don't. In principle, the use of melatonin-containing food supplements as a sleep aid should be viewed with caution."

Link to the Consumer Monitor: https://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/364/bfr_consumer_monitor_08-2024.pdf