The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…**Background:** Few studies have attempted to assess the effectiveness of formulary management in reducing the antipsychotic costs and utilization across U.S. state Medicaid programs, despite concerns about the potential impact of such formulary management on Medicaid patient health outcomes. …”
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Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy by Donna Kesselman

“…Re-energizing voters in the 38 U. S. states where they raise grassroots and often controversial “wedge issues”, they also have spill-over effects in other areas of politics and civil engagement. …”
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THE ROLE OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT" IN RUSSIA by D. L. Sivovolov

“…., Russian and the EU. U.S. states the principle of state non-intervention in Internet. …”
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Food recalls: An unnecessary and preventable factor in food waste by Rubén Morawicki

“…In this recall, more than 3,900 different types of products were retrieved from the market from 46 U.S. states (Flynn, 2009). Once the recalled product is in the processor’s hands, the next step is determining what to do with it. …”
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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

“…In this study, we applied two mathematical models to previously collected wastewater and clinical data from four U.S. states during the 2022/2023 influenza season, dominated by the H3N2 subtype. …”
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Impact of driver licensing renewal policies on older driver crash involvement and injury rates in 13 states, 2000–2019 by Cara J. Hamann, Jonathan A. Davis, Gilsu Pae, Motao Zhu, Gregory H. Shill, Brian Tefft, Joseph E. Cavanaugh

“…Methods Historical crash data, license renewal policy data, and other relevant policy and demographic data were gathered from 13 U.S. states (CO, IL, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, UT, WI, WY) for years 2000 through 2019, inclusive. …”
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Meta-analyses of mouse and human prostate single-cell transcriptomes reveal widespread epithelial plasticity in tissue regression, regeneration, and cancer by Luis Aparicio, Laura Crowley, John R. Christin, Caroline J. Laplaca, Hanina Hibshoosh, Raul Rabadan, Michael M. Shen

“…Finally, we observe that luminal acinar tumor cells in treatment-naïve prostate cancer display heterogeneous androgen receptor (AR) signaling activity, including a split between AR-positive and AR-low profiles with similarity to PrU-like states. Conclusions Taken together, our analyses of cellular heterogeneity and plasticity provide important translational insights into the origin and treatment response of prostate cancer. …”
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homeRNA self-blood collection enables high-frequency temporal profiling of presymptomatic host immune kinetics to respiratory viral infection: a prospective cohort studyResearch in... by Fang Yun Lim, Hannah G. Lea, Ashley M. Dostie, Soo-Young Kim, Tammi L. van Neel, Grant W. Hassan, Meg G. Takezawa, Lea M. Starita, Karen N. Adams, Michael Boeckh, Joshua T. Schiffer, Ollivier Hyrien, Alpana Waghmare, Erwin Berthier, Ashleigh B. Theberge

“…Findings: Between June 2021 and April 2022, 68 participants across 26 U.S. states completed the study and self-collected a total of 691 and 466 longitudinal blood and nasal swab samples along with 688 symptom surveys. …”
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