Grant

Fresenius Kidney Care received a grant greater than $130,000 from the Mississippi Department of Health's Office of Rural Health and Primary Care to further kidney education through virtual reality, according to a press release.

The 2023 KidneyCure grant programs are now open until 2 p.m. EST on Dec. 7, according to an American Society of Nephrology press release.

Several leading health care organizations and foundations are co-sponsoring new grant funding aimed to help promote equity and diversity in health care, according to a press release from ABIM.

BrainCheck Inc. has received a $1.5 million grant award from the Small Business Innovation Research program, which it will use to fund a study of CARE, its digital cognitive care management platform, the company announced in a news release.

Biopharmaceutical company Aptinyx Inc. announced the finalization of a $5.6 million NIH grant for the development of a novel therapeutic for the treatment of opioid use disorder.

The American Psychiatric Association announced it has received a $100,000 grant from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies to promote the early and proper diagnosis of eating disorders.

The DaVita Giving Foundation awarded a $1.4 million grant to The Food Is Medicine Coalition, an association of 25 nonprofit organizations, according to a press release.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded Phoenix PharmaLabs $8.7 million to study PPL-138, a compound to treat cocaine use disorder.

The HHS is investing $27 million to improve mental health care for children, according to a press release.

HHS has awarded more than $1.6 billion in investments for communities across the country to address the addiction and overdose crises.