Publications by authors named "Molly Peterson"
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- Pregnancy and breastfeeding change how breasts look and feel, which makes it trickier to check for breast cancer.
- It's still really important to do these checks to catch any cancer early, as waiting could make things worse.
- Doctors use different types of scans, like ultrasound or mammography, depending on the woman’s age and situation, but MRI is not usually used during pregnancy.
Breast cancer detection has a significant impact on population health. Although there are many breast imaging modalities, mammography is the predominant tool for breast cancer screening. The introduction of digital breast tomosynthesis to mammography has contributed to increased cancer detection rates and decreased recall rates.
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- Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are significant public health concerns in the Upper Midwest, particularly in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, prompting officials to recommend various prevention measures.
- A survey conducted in 2019 across 48 high-risk counties revealed that while 98% of people had heard of Lyme disease and many recognized its seriousness, only about 25% thought tick-borne diseases were common in their community.
- Despite this, there seems to be a high willingness among the population to adopt preventive behaviors, with 82% willing to perform daily tick checks and over 60% open to using bug repellent and tick control products for pets.*
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- Lyme disease cases are rising, prompting the development of new vaccine candidates, but understanding public acceptance is crucial before market release.
- A survey conducted in June-July 2018 across several states found that 64% of respondents were willing to get vaccinated, while 30% were uncertain, and 7% were unwilling.
- Factors influencing vaccine hesitancy included being non-White, having less education, safety concerns, low confidence in vaccines, and a low perceived risk of Lyme disease.
SARS-CoV-2 Exposure and Infection Among Health Care Personnel - Minnesota, March 6-July 11, 2020.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
October 2020
Health care personnel (HCP) are at increased risk for infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as a result of their exposure to patients or community contacts with COVID-19 (1,2). Since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Minnesota was reported on March 6, 2020, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has required health care facilities* to report HCP exposures to persons with confirmed COVID-19 for exposure risk assessment and to enroll HCP with higher-risk exposures into quarantine and symptom monitoring. During March 6-July 11, MDH and 1,217 partnering health care facilities assessed 21,406 HCP exposures; among these, 5,374 (25%) were classified as higher-risk (3).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of in Minnesota ticks is unknown. Ticks collected at seven sites were tested to determine the infection prevalence of in in Minnesota. Ticks were collected from two properties at an epizootic site and at five long-term tick research sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess trends in malignant melanoma incidence, survival, and mortality in Wisconsin.
Methods: Incidence data for Wisconsin were obtained from the Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System Bureau of Health Information using Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health, while incidence data for the United States were obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results system (SEER). The mortality to incidence ratio [1 - (mortality/incidence)] was used as a proxy to estimate relative 5-year survival in Wisconsin, while observed 5-year survival rates for the United States were obtained from SEER.
Two methods for preparing polycrystalline silver shells on colloidal silica spheres are reported. These do not include the use of organic ligands or metal seeding steps and are based on the Tollen's process for silvering glass. Reaction parameters such as temperature and reactant concentrations are adjusted to slow the reaction kinetics, which we find leads to preferential silver growth on the spheres.
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