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With a fresh infusion of federal support, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) will join General Electric, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Medical School of Wisconsin, Japan's Hokkaido University, and Poland's Jagiellonian University in developing readily-deployable devices to measure levels of radiation in survivors of radiological and nuclear catastrophes, including terror attacks.
With a two-year, $1.3-million grant, researchers from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering and the Lebanon-based company Simbex will explore novel approaches to understanding the causes of and clinical outcomes following sports-related concussions.
While most physicians believe they should take a patient's religious and spiritual needs into account in deciding health care issues, nine out of 10 doctors never talk to their patients about such matters. Many physicians either don't feel competent to carry on that kind of conversation or deem it inappropriate.
Anyone hearing more laughter than usual around Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) in the coming months need not worry: Serious research is going on.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) will join the Department of Nursing at Colby-Sawyer College (CSC) in collaborating with one of 11 foundations nationwide to receive funding from Partners Investing in Nursing's Future (PIN). The program is a multi-year, multi-million-dollar national investment in preparing America's nursing workforce for serving an older and more diverse population through interdisciplinary education and coordination to improve outcomes.
After years of organizing and dispatching - and sometimes leading - doctors and nurses to disaster areas around the United States and the world, Dartmouth emergency-medicine expert Rob Gougelet, MD, is riding herd on a relief effort right next door.
Under an $11-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) will lead a network of northern New England institutions in recruiting, training, and supporting young quantitative biologists to teach and conduct research into the ways that genes and the environment work together to trigger and prevent disease.
Stress. Substance abuse and addiction. Obesity and diabetes. Cancer. Sleep disorders and deprivation. Antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The modern world is full of health issues and risks.
Under the guidance of Dartmouth microbiologist Bruce Stanton, PhD, four students from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) spent the first week of August researching triggers of human disease at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL).
Veteran cancer researcher Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC). His appointment follows the three-year term of Joyce A. DeLeo, PhD, who moved to Emmanuel College to serve as vice president for academic affairs on August 1.
With key contributions from two Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) researchers, a multi-institutional team is reporting a major advance in the search for tools to solve a broad array of neurological disorders, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Dartmouth neurologist Elijah Stommel, MD, PhD, will co-lead a workshop at Bowdoin College next week on mounting evidence that environmental factors play a major role in triggering neurodegenerative disorders like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's disease.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will confer a Citation of Honor on the palliative-medicine program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), during the Circle of Life Award ceremonies at the AHA's Leadership Summit in San Diego in mid-July.
Dartmouth vascular surgeons Philip P. Goodney, MD, and David Stone, MD, received grants toward their research projects during the Vascular Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) in Chicago in mid-June.
American adolescents are hitting the hard stuff - and they're naming alcohol brand names, according to a new report from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.