State-level disparities in cervical cancer prevention and outcomes in the U.S.: a modeling study.

Background: Despite HPV vaccines' availability for over a decade, coverage across the US varies. While some states have tried to increase HPV vaccination coverage, most model-based analyses focus on national impacts. We evaluated hypothetical changes in HPV vaccination coverage at the national and state levels for California, New York, and Texas using a mathematical model.

Discovering Novel Proteoforms Using Proteogenomic Workflows Within the Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform.

Proteogenomics is a growing "multi-omics" research area that combines mass spectrometry-based proteomics and high-throughput nucleotide sequencing technologies. Proteogenomics has helped in genomic annotation for organisms whose complete genome sequences became available by using high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies. Apart from genome annotation, this multi-omics approach has also helped researchers confirm expression of variant proteins belonging to unique proteoforms that could have resulted from single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), insertion and deletions (Indels), splice isoforms, or other genome or transcriptome variations.

State-level disparities in cervical cancer prevention and outcomes in the U.S.: A modeling study.

Background: Despite HPV vaccines' availability for over a decade, coverage across the US varies. While some states have tried to increase HPV vaccination coverage, most model-based analyses focus on national impacts. We evaluated hypothetical changes in HPV vaccination coverage at the national and state levels for California, New York, and Texas using a mathematical model.

North Carolina Medicaid System Perspectives on Substance Use Disorder Treatment Policy Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: This study aimed to describe perspectives from stakeholders involved in the Medicaid system in North Carolina regarding substance use disorder (SUD) treatment policy changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews in early 2022 with state agency representatives, Medicaid managed care organizations, and Medicaid providers (n = 22) as well as 3 focus groups of Medicaid beneficiaries with SUD (n = 14). Interviews and focus groups focused on 4 topics: policies, meeting needs during COVID, demand for SUD services, and staffing.

LGBTQ+ inequity in crowdfunding cancer costs: The influence of online reach and LGBTQ+ state policy.

Background: Emerging literature suggests that LGBTQ+ cancer survivors are more likely to experience financial burden than non-LGBTQ+ survivors. However, LGBTQ+ cancer survivors experience with cost-coping behaviors such as crowdfunding is understudied.

Methods: We aimed to assess LGBTQ+ inequity in cancer crowdfunding by combining community-engaged and technology-based methods.