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5-Jun-2025

New study finds Transcendental Meditation may significantly reduce cardiovascular events in high-risk Black adults

Maharishi International University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A newly published randomized controlled trial in Frontiers in Medicine has found that the practice of Transcendental Meditation^® (TM) may significantly reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in Black men and women at high risk for heart disease. The study compared TM with a standard health education (HE) program and found a 65% relative risk reduction in cardiovascular events over a 5-year period among those who practiced TM.

Journal: Frontiers in Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

5-Jun-2025

Inherited genetic trait predicts resistance to immunotherapy for deadly skin cancer

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

Tests in 1,225 patients with the most deadly form of skin cancer reveal for the first time a genetic trait among most of those who did not respond to the latest cancer treatments, known as immune checkpoint inhibitors. Metastatic melanoma, as the disease is formally named, kills nearly 10,000 Americans annually.

Journal: Nature Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Melanoma Research Alliance

4-Jun-2025

NIH grant assists in research observing the effects of fentanyl during pregnancy

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant will aid Wayne State University researchers in measuring the effects of fentanyl during pregnancy on maternal behaviors and offspring at birth through early development.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

4-Jun-2025

Airborne disease detection made easier with new, low-cost device

University of Notre Dame
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Airborne hazardous chemicals can be dilute, mobile, and hard to trap. Yet accurately measuring these chemicals is critical in protecting human health and the environment. Now, a new, small, low-cost device, nicknamed ABLE, could make the collection and detection of airborne hazards much easier and faster.

Journal: Nature Chemical Engineering
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

4-Jun-2025

Study shows loss of Y in blood cells hinders immune response to cancer

University of Arizona Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how loss of the Y chromosome in male immune cells negatively affects immune system function, which may explain why loss of Y is associated with lower cancer survival rates. The paper “Concurrent loss of the Y chromosome in cancer and T cells impacts outcome,” was published today in Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute