Leadership in federally qualified health centers: examining recruitment and retention in rural Oklahoma.

Purpose: Healthcare workforce shortages, particularly in rural areas, present a global challenge. The purpose of this study is to explore the leadership dynamics within federally qualified health centers (FQHC) in rural Oklahoma, focusing on recruitment, retention, job satisfaction and development practices.

Design/methodology/approach: Eighteen managers with five or more years of tenure from Oklahoma FQHCs were interviewed.

Mobilization of Endogenous CD34+/CD133+ Endothelial Progenitor Cells by Enhanced External Counter Pulsation for Treatment of Refractory Angina.

Adult stem cell therapy via intramyocardial injection of autologous CD34+ stem cells has been shown to improve exercise capacity and reduce angina frequency and mortality in patients with refractory angina (RA). However, the cost of such therapy is a limitation to its adoption in clinical practice. Our goal was to determine whether the less costly, less invasive, and widely accessible, FDA-approved alternative treatment for RA patients, known as enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), mobilizes endogenous CD34+ stem cells and whether such mobilization is associated with the clinical benefits seen with intramyocardial injection.

Energy expenditure of international female rugby union players during a major international tournament: a doubly labelled water study.

The purpose of this study was to quantify the total energy expenditure (TEE) of international female rugby union players. Fifteen players were assessed over 14 days throughout an international multi-game tournament, which represented two consecutive one-match microcycles. Resting metabolic rate (RMR) and TEE were assessed by indirect calorimetry and doubly labelled water, respectively.

Prognostic Biomarkers in Melanoma: Tailoring Treatments to the Patient.

Background: It is often difficult to accurately predict how a melanoma will progress because melanomas can be so diverse in their genetic and histological makeup.

Objective: We sought to characterize the current state and progression of biomedical markers towards their utilization as prognostic indicators for patients with melanoma.

Methods: A literature search of the research repository databases PubMed and GoogleScholar was conducted using the following inclusion criteria: (1) published within the last 10 years, and (2) use of overall survival, disease progression, or clinical outcome as primary endpoints.

The role of dynamic, dyadic parent-child processes in parental socialization of emotion.

We investigated what a dyadic framework added to Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's (1998) parental emotion socialization model based on the argument that the dynamic organization of emotion in the dyad is more than the sum of its parts and thus makes a unique contribution to emotion socialization. Preschoolers (N = 235) completed challenging problem-solving tasks with mothers and fathers, during which parental emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs), child negative emotional arousal, and dyadic positive emotion data were collected. We examined whether dyadic synchrony of positive emotion at age 3 was a mechanism by which age 3 parental ERSBs impacted children's age 5 aggressive behavior in school, accounting for child gender, child negative emotional arousal, and aggressive behavior in preschool.