Despite intensified efforts by the international community over the past decade, hundreds of millions of people around the world continue to go hungry.

And the problem remains acute in parts of Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and other areas of the former Soviet Union.

Women with mental disorders are less likely to have screening mammograms than women without mental illness, although the nature of the mental illness does play a role, according to a large study published by Indiana University School of Medicine and Richard Roudebush VA Health Services Center for Excellence researchers in the October issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine. Prior to this study, little was known about whether the type or severity of mental illness influences receipt of preventive services such as mammograms.