Talking to Tebow: Monticello Woman’s Dying Wish Granted

A Monticello woman in her final days battling brain cancer has a special wish come true: a conversation with her role model Tim Tebow, a professional athlete, motivational speaker and philanthropist who gained fame while playing football at the University of Florida. Vickers has been battling brain cancer for two years: three months of rehab in the hospital, several rounds of chemotherapy, and now resting in a hospital bed at home — but a phone call from Tebow, her “favorite person in the world,” eclipsed all of that.

Discrimination interacts with certain genetic variants to negatively impact health

It’s no secret that discrimination is stressful for those who experience it, but turns out the issue is more than skin deep – these stressors can interact with our genetics to negatively impact our health, a new University of Florida study shows. Study researchers developed a novel measure of unfair treatment to study the effects of discrimination on health, particularly with respect to racial disparities in complex diseases, which are illnesses resulting from both genetic and environmental factors.