Researchers have discovered a long noncoding RNA whose function was previously unknown that turns out to play an important role in promoting the body s immune response against cancer and holds promise for enhancing the efficacy of anti-cancer immunotherapy.
Why Middle Eastern, North African communities face barriers to health care
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Why Middle Eastern, North African communities face barriers to health care
A new study from the University of Michigan’s Rogel Cancer Center finds that Metro Detroit’s Middle Eastern and North African communities face fear, discrimination and other significant barriers that impact their health.
The study shines a spotlight on the more than 200,000 people from Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other Arab countries.
“Our goal really is to make people feel welcome, to kind of help them lead to the services that they really need to have to have a healthy life and build a healthy community,” said Madiha Tariq, MPH.
HPV Fuels Uptick in Head and Neck Cancers in Taiwan, Study Finds
Vaccines and other policies could help keep in check a disease that’s becoming increasingly common worldwide.
The human papillomavirus
is fueling an epidemic of head and neck cancer globally, with 100,000 new cases worldwide each year.
A new study suggests Taiwan may be in the same spot the United States was a few decades ago when this trend first emerged. But in Taiwan, HPV’s impact is obscured by high rates of tobacco, alcohol and betel quid use. The findings suggest policies and public health interventions in Taiwan could help prevent HPV-driven cancers.
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Ask ten people what meditation is, and you might get ten answers but they could all be right. It’s a practice that dates back thousands of years and has been part of so many cultures that there are now dozens of ways to do it. Still, they share an underlying similarity: “It’s a practice that cultivates inward investigation,” says Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.
What accounts for meditation’s lasting and widespread appeal? The answer may lie in a growing body of research that confirms what many practitioners have claimed for years: Meditation has been shown to be helpful taming stress and anxiety, reducing cardiovascular risk factors, managing chronic pain, and improving sleep