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By Sara Heath On March 29, 2023 Patients facing higher cost-sharing and out-of-pocket costs for follow-up breast cancer screening do not access those procedures, research has found. March 29, 2023 – Patients who face cost-sharing and high out-of-pocket healthcare costs for breast cancer screening might not access any applicable follow-up tests they need, according to research published in JAMA Network…

By Kalie VanDewater On March 27, 2023 Compared with other people with breast cancer, those with a preexisting severe mental illness were less likely to receive appropriate treatment and more likely to experience delays in receiving treatment, findings in Psycho-Oncology showed. Steve Kisely, PhD, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine…

By Sheila Callaham On March 26, 2023 Ageism is discrimination against individuals or groups based on their age. When the late Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term more than 50 years ago, he intended to raise awareness of the blatant denigration of the aging population. Butler, the first to publicize age-related stereotyping, focused his…

By University of Sheffield (U.K.) On March 22, 2023 Anti-age discrimination policies are failing in the workplace, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The case study of U.K. policy revealed current anti-age discrimination policies are not being implemented as intended and therefore neglecting those they are supposed to help. The study recommends change is…

By Roger Valdez On February 3, 2023 While the world was a different place in 2014 when Congressman and recent Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan emerged with his analysis and critique of the War on Poverty and the vast array of programs that emerged from it. What hasn’t seemed to change in the intervening decade is…

By Elizabeth Chuck and Safia Samee Ali On February 1, 2023 Eighteen states have already ended the emergency allotment of at least $95 extra a month, and the rest of the country will soon follow, even as grocery prices remain high. A pandemic-era boost to the funds low-income households receive to buy groceries is ending,…

By Richard Murphy On February 28, 2023 Farming uses many of the same skills essential to the ethos of the U.S. military: hard work, attention to detail and service before self, to name a few. In 2013, Veterans to Farmers launched to allow Veterans to re-utilize those skills while taking on the challenge of continuing to feed…

By Julie Carr-Smith On February 21, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two groups advocating for abortion rights submitted fall ballot language Tuesday for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Ohioans’ access to abortion, an effort that opponents have vowed to fight. The measure delivered to Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s office calls for establishing “a fundamental right…

By Laura Hancock On March 27, 2023 OLUMBUS, Ohio – The proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution advanced smoothly through the initial stages of the winding process to get on the ballot, but as advocates began to gather signatures to put the amendment on the November ballot, opponents began setting up roadblocks.…

By Sam Levine On February 8, 2023 Florida man Nathan Hart, 49, acquitted of illegal voting but found guilty of false registration in closely watched case A Florida man on Tuesday was acquitted on charges of illegally voting but convicted of lying on his voter registration application in a closely watched voter fraud case. The split verdict…