Publications by authors named "J Leichter"

An increased need to support behavioral health concerns such as anxiety and depression was identified in both healthcare employees and patients. To address this gap, a multistate Midwestern healthcare system developed a course to provide education and training on behavioral health for employees in clinical and nonclinical roles. Over 650 participants have attended the course.

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As on land, oceans exhibit high temporal and spatial temperature variation. This "ocean weather" contributes to the physiological and ecological processes that ultimately determine the patterns of species distribution and abundance, yet is often unrecognized, especially in tropical oceans. Here, we tested the paradigm of temperature stability in shallow waters (<12.

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The severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) that are increasingly impacting ocean ecosystems, including vulnerable coral reefs, has primarily been assessed using remotely sensed sea-surface temperatures (SSTs), without information relevant to heating across ecosystem depths. Here, using a rare combination of SST, high-resolution in-situ temperatures, and sea level anomalies observed over 15 years near Moorea, French Polynesia, we document subsurface MHWs that have been paradoxical in comparison to SST metrics and associated with unexpected coral bleaching across depths. Variations in the depth range and severity of MHWs was driven by mesoscale (10s to 100s of km) eddies that altered sea levels and thermocline depths and decreased (2007, 2017 and 2019) or increased (2012, 2015, 2016) internal-wave cooling.

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  • * A study focused on 14 patients who underwent SAE, analyzing changes in splenic volume and platelet count over time; while splenic volume showed a slight decrease, platelet counts noticeably increased.
  • * Results indicated that SAE does not significantly impact long-term splenic volume but does lead to a significant rise in platelet count, showing SAE's effectiveness in managing splenic injury.
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Background: Many believe women's oral health deteriorates as a result of having children. If so, such associations should exist among women but not among men. The aims of this study were to investigate whether number of children is associated with experience of dental disease and tooth loss among both men and women and to examine whether this association is affected by other variables of interest.

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