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Financial Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening
Among low-income, uninsured, or publicly insured women ages 25-64 years who were not up to date on cervical cancer screening, 72% perceived financial barriers to screening. The most commonly reported barriers were screening appointment costs (71%) and follow-up/future treatment costs (44%), according to a study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. Click here to read the article now.
Screening is effective at reducing the incidence of and mortality associated with cervical cancer. However, disparities exist in cervical cancer incidence and mortality and in cervical cancer screening based on poverty level, insurance status, race, and ethnicity. Only about 64% of uninsured women, 78% of publicly insured women, and 75% of low-income women have been screened in accordance with national screening guidelines. Perceived financial barriers to screening likely affect cervical cancer screening adherence.
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Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease Reported in New Issue of Brain Connectivity
-New advances in understanding Alzheimer’s disease based on functional connectivity and neural networks are published in a Special Issue on Alzheimer’s Disease in
Brain Connectivity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. Click here to read the article now.
Beau Ances, Washington University in St. Louis, and coauthors, evaluated global resting-state functional connectivity signature in mutation carriers from the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. They assessed the global resting-state functional connectivity with regards to amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration biomarkers and estimated years to symptom onset. They present their findings in the article entitled “Resting-State Function Connectivity Disruption as a Pathological Biomarker in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease.”
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United States Department of Sustainability: Its Purpose and Moral Underpinnings
-Despite advancing climate change, the U.S. has no official federal response to sustainability. A new Rapid Communication proposes a Cabinet-level U.S. Department of Sustainability and examines its purpose and moral underpinnings, as reported in
Sustainability and Climate Change. Click here to read the article now.
A U.S. Department of Sustainability “could address specific challenges of multiple dimensions of sustainability and coordinate efforts with other agencies whose work involves the interplay of environmental, social, and economic elements,” says author Shane Epting, PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Preventing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
-Improving women’s health before, during, and after pregnancy is the focus of a special issue of the peer-reviewed
Journal of Women’s Health. The issue brings together a broad range of research topics and perspectives on addressing and preventing maternal morbidity and mortality. Click here to read the article now.
“The high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States are alarming and constitute a public health crisis as up to 60% of these deaths are preventable. As the primary government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research, the National Institutes of Health invests a large amount of its budget in maternal health. Together with other federal agencies, scientists from the research and academic institutes, we hope to shed more light on this public health problem and offer some directions for the future”, states Guest Editor Samia Noursi, PhD, Associate Director of Science Poli