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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 31-Oct-2025 16:11 ET (31-Oct-2025 20:11 GMT/UTC)

28-Oct-2025

Distinct brain features in football players may tell who is at risk of long-term traumatic disease

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Brain scans from American football players reveal subtle differences in the brain’s outer grooves when compared to scans from otherwise healthy men who never played contact or collision sports, a new study shows. Its authors say the findings could potentially predict which people are more at risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Journal: Brain Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

27-Oct-2025

Outdoor air pollution linked to higher incidence of breast cancer

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women living in parts of the United States with lower air quality, especially neighborhoods with heavy emissions from motor vehicles, are more likely to develop breast cancer.

Journal: American Journal of Public Health
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Kresge Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency

27-Oct-2025

Pitt engineer and surgeons unveil wireless metamaterial spinal implants that feel, heal, and communicate

University of Pittsburgh
Grant and Award Announcement

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have received a $352,213 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant to develop the first self-powered spinal implant capable of transmitting real-time data from inside the body.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

27-Oct-2025

NIH grants totaling $17.9 million will advance UMass Amherst research tackling opioid overdose and HIV prevention and treatment

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Grant and Award Announcement

A University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher has received four grants totaling $17.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue groundbreaking research that implemented and assessed medical treatment programs for incarcerated people with opioid use disorder, as well as develop a new program for HIV prevention and treatment.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

27-Oct-2025

Exploring a mechanism of psychedelics

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers identified a pathway in the male rat brain that psychedelics target. This pathway may explain how these drugs strengthen memories and alleviate psychiatric disease symptoms.

Journal: eNeuro
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse