Background: Pica is the compulsive eating of nonnutritive substances and can have serious
medical implications. Although it has been described since antiquity, there has been no …

Purpose Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) diagnosed with cancer face numerous physical,
psychosocial, and practical challenges. This article describes the health-related quality …

We explored a diverse sample of family medicine patients’ use of the internet for health
information. Primary objectives were to determine the extent of access to the Internet, and among …

Elder abuse is recognized as an underdetected and an underreported social problem.
Difficulties in detecting elder abuse are compounded by lack of a standardized, psychometrically …

Objective In the context of scientific uncertainty, treatment choices for localized prostate
cancer vary, but reasons for this variation are unclear. We explored how black and white …

Objective: To describe prostate cancer treatment decision making, focusing on knowledge
and attitudes toward observation, known as watchful waiting (WW) or active surveillance (AS), …

This study examined differences in 10‐year survival rates from breast cancer among white,
black, and Hispanic women controlling for the effects of age, socioeconomic status (SES), …

This study examined 10-year survival following a breast cancer diagnosis among 910
married and 351 widowed white women after adjusting for the effects of age, socio-economic …

Background: The association between changes in menopausal status and menopause-related
symptom reporting over the course of the menopause transition is not well understood, …

To better understand the dynamics underlying their high turnover rate, emergency medical
technicians (EMTs) were asked to participate in a union-sponsored study. Fifty-two percent of …