by Jessica Palacios  , Odin Ramírez-Fernández  and Esmeralda Zuñiga-Aguilar

Received: 22 August 2024;  Published: 07 March 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2501240

Tissue engineering offers alternatives when it comes to health problems such as trauma or pathologies. One of them is the scaffolds, which provide a favorable architecture, mechanics, and biocompatibility for the fixation of cells. Therefore, the following research aims to design and simulate scaffolds with mixed geometric structures to create a hybrid architecture for osseointegration while maintaining structural properties similar to subchondral bone and hyaline cartilage. Three scaffolds were designed for this p [...]

by Annie J. Keeney  , Anabel Rodriguez  , Jaime Murillo  and Savannah S. Ingold

Received: 20 August 2024;  Published: 06 January 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2501002

Farmworkers are the backbone of the agricultural economy in the US yet are disproportionately burdened with economic-related stress and adverse behavioral health outcomes. How these stressors translate to children and family well-being is poorly understood. Grounded in Transactional Stress and Coping Theory, we aimed to understand how children and families adapt and respond to the stressors associated with farm labor occupations in a rural, underserved, bi-national community. We utilized focus groups with adult chi [...]

by Gerhard Litscher

Received: 07 July 2025;  Published: 10 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2503030

With the passing of Prof. Dr. Frank Bahr, the field of complementary medicine has lost one of its most influential personalities. As a pioneer of auricular medicine in the German-speaking world, he helped shape the field of integrative medicine over many decades. This tribute by Prof. DDr. Gerhard Litscher honors Bahr's work, his convictions, and the legacy of a visionary whose impact on energy and spiritual medicine endures.

by Maria Kosma

Received: 06 April 2025;  Published: 17 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2503032

Contrary to the dominant ultra-cognitive approach in public health whereby only thought processes are supposed to link to action (e.g., physical activity) and health, in this research an embodied (body-mind unison) philosophy was examined by showcasing the importance of holistic and performative movement experiences to health and well-being. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to comprehensively examine the interrelated, multiple, and embodied benefits of a community-based aerial sling class (“Flow”) on bod [...]

by Sara Evans  , Ariba Moin  and Ashwini Arjuna

Received: 13 June 2024;  Published: 09 April 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2502246

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) significantly impacts the central and peripheral nervous systems, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. This case report details a rare presentation of VZV meningoencephalitis in a 42-year-old woman with interstitial lung disease and connective tissue disease undergoing lung transplant evaluation who presented with a thunderclap headache and a new-onset seizure. Despite normal initial MRI findings, further investigation with PCR of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) revealed the pre [...]

by Lyubov Starodub  , Nataliia Mokhnachova  and Ostap Zhukorskyi

Received: 18 June 2024;  Published: 31 October 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.genet.2404269

The preservation of the fund of local breeds of agricultural animals, which are breeding materials for the creation of new ones and the improvement of existing ones, meets the FAO requirements, which are the protection of biological diversity. The study of the genetic structure of cows of the local Lebedyn breed, which was bred in Ukraine, using cytogenetic and molecular genetic methods, is aimed at establishing information about the structure of the gene pool of these animals and the uniqueness of their genotype. [...]

by Walter Calderón-Gerstein  , Gabriela Torres-Samaniego  , Kevin Pazos-Sovero  and Mirella Calderón-Anyosa

Received: 07 December 2022;  Published: 20 November 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.genet.2404271

This study aims to validate two predictive mortality scores for patients with COVID-19 to support clinical decision-making in those who require hospitalization. The tomographic patterns found can be added to the original scores to increase their predictive power. Retrospective, analytical, observational, and cross-sectional studies were carried out in two phases. 489 medical records of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized at “Daniel A. Carrión” Hospital in Huancayo (located at 3,250 meters above sea level) were revi [...]

by Manish Suryapalam  , Jay Kanaparthi  , Shineui Kim  , Pedram Shafiei-Jahani  , Armeen Barghi  and Mohammed Kashem

Received: 10 November 2024;  Published: 11 June 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2502252

While heart transplantation is increasingly performed in the United States for elderly patients, survival outcomes have primarily been analyzed in single-center studies. The few existing long-term studies have indicated no difference in HTx outcomes between patients ≥70 years and 60-69 years age, but these studies only assessed to 5-years post-transplant and included data from the 1980-90s, introducing significant variance due to poorer outcomes in that era. We analyzed the UNOS database from 1987-2020, stratified [...]

by Jodi Coon-Robeson  , Jaicee Williamson  , Anna Kate Edgemon  and John T. Rapp

Received: 20 May 2024;  Published: 04 September 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2403049

Previous studies have shown that the use of a three-color (red, yellow, and green) rating system of child behaviors by caregivers can help facilitate deprescribing of psychotropic medications in foster youth. Using a similar three-color rating system within a state-funded project, we assessed whether there was a day of the week when 48 foster youth consistently displayed challenging behavior. For each foster child, we used conditional probability analyses to determine if there was a day of the week with an increase [...]

by OBM Geriatrics Editorial Office

Received: 03 January 2024;  Published: 04 January 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2401265

The editors of OBM Geriatrics would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2023. We greatly appreciate the contribution of expert reviewers, which is crucial to the journal’s editorial process. We aim to recognize reviewer contributions through several mechanisms, of which the annual publication of reviewer names is one. Reviewers can download a certificate of recognition directly from our submission system. Additionally, reviewers can sign up to the We [...]