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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Oct-2025 06:10 ET (5-Oct-2025 10:10 GMT/UTC)

18-Sep-2025

At least one more governmental seat for Africa: stronger voice, better health

University of the Witwatersrand
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Health funders would likely have a better return on investment and a stronger position in the global funding crisis if Africans had greater decision-making influence and voting power in global health institutions.

This is an assertion in an article published on 15 September 2025 in the prestigious BMJ Global Health journal.

Journal: BMJ Global Health

18-Sep-2025

First EU HTAs with IQWiG involvement launched

Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
Business Announcement

First EU HTAs with IQWiG involvement launched. The Institute is involved in four oncology drug assessments as an assessor or co-assessor.

18-Sep-2025

NSF grant supports University of Virginia-Johns Hopkins collaboration to improve pharmaceutical catalysts

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
Grant and Award Announcement

Chemical engineering researchers team up to make medicine production faster, cleaner and more reliable with smarter catalyst design.

18-Sep-2025

Inspired by bacteria’s defense strategies

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new way to fine-tune genetic material. Their study, published in Nature Biotechnology, describes an innovative technique in which chemical tags are attached directly to DNA, opening the door to new approaches in medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology.

Journal: Nature Biotechnology

18-Sep-2025

US faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wildfire smoke increasingly threatens lives across the country. A new study shows smoke exposure in the coming decades will cause tens of thousands of excess deaths and predicts where exposure will occur so communities and policymakers can prepare for the health burden.

Journal: Nature
Funder: W. M. Keck Foundation, Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stony Brook University, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Stanford Research Computing Center

18-Sep-2025

Three deadliest risk factors of a common liver disease identified in new study

University of Southern California - Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from Keck Medicine of USC reveals that three of the cardiometabolic risk factors carry the greatest risk of death for those with MASLD: high blood pressure, pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes, and low HDL.

Journal: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

18-Sep-2025

Oral microbes linked to increased risk of pancreatic cancer

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

Twenty-seven species of bacteria and fungi among the hundreds that live in people’s mouths have been collectively tied to a 3.5 times greater risk of developing pancreatic cancer, a study led by NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center shows.

Journal: JAMA Oncology
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