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UTA expands efforts to tackle nursing shortage

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Texas at Arlington, the state’s largest producer of baccalaureate-educated nurses, has received a grant to expand its efforts to address the critical nursing shortage in Texas and across the nation.

University of Birmingham joins national rollout of ground-breaking exercise program for older adults at risk of mobility loss

University of Birmingham
Grant and Award Announcement

Three-year funding of over £1million to make the successful REACT programme available to older people at higher risk of mobility-related disability

New core competency framework enhances support for SNAP-ED policy and environmental change implementers

Elsevier
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, outlines a set of core competencies designed to support professionals implementing policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change initiatives in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed). Developed through a participatory process with experienced practitioners, the framework addresses the unique demands of systems-level public health work.

Journal: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
Funder: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education Program Development Team, South Dakota State University

New survey: Majority of U.S. women say their health care providers have not informed them of diet’s role in prevention of breast cancer

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Up slightly from 16% last year, only 19% of women say a health care provider has discussed with them nutrition’s role in breast cancer risk in a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey. However, fewer of those same women specifically mention diet this year when asked what steps they’re aware of that women can take to lower their chances of developing breast cancer.

How bad are micro- and nanoplastics for our health? It depends on their concentrations and how you measure them

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Collecting and analyzing the amount of toxic micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in water is comparatively easy: fill a bucket from your source, evaporate the water and count and characterize the plastics that are left behind. But what if you want to know how many MNPs are in that apple you’re about to eat, the tree in your backyard, or even in your brain?

Journal: Nature Reviews Bioengineering

Exercise may slow epigenetic aging

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — August 12, 2025 — A new research perspective was published in Aging (Aging-US) on July 8, 2025, titled “Exercise as a geroprotector: focusing on epigenetic aging.”

Journal: Aging-US

Autoimmune diseases linked to cancers of the digestive tract

University of Augsburg
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a comprehensive study, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg have provided reliable evidence for a link between chronic inflammatory diseases and the development of tumours in the digestive tract. The results were recently published in eClinicalMedicine, which is part of the Lancet Group.

Journal: EClinicalMedicine