NH Magazine – What exactly is menopause? NH Magazine asked Geisel’s Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Karen George to help explain.
Archive for 2014
Parasite Found in Cat Poop to be a New Cure for Cancer?
International Business Times – A Geisel study has found that a single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii (T gondii), which is found inside cats’ intestines, could be a new cure for cancer, International Business Times reports.
How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students
The Atlantic – The Atlantic spotlights the research projects of Bill Hudenko, child psychologist and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Geisel, who uses board games to diagnose and strengthen cognitive and executive function skills among children.
Student Voices: City of Contradictions
Navigating the health-care system in Nigeria isn’t easy for an outsider, says medical student Peace Eneh. So she has found ways to team up with local partners as she spends the summer conducting research.
Dartmouth Researchers Study Technology to Restore Memory Function
Dartmouth researchers are playing a key role in a multi-center $22.5 million, four-year effort to develop next-generation technologies to restore memory function in individuals who suffer from memory loss.
New Hampshire Ranks No. 3 in Prescriptions for Certain Types of Painkillers, CDC Finds
Concord Monitor – Quotes Seddon Savage on a new report that ranks New Hampshire one of the states with the highest prescription drug abuse of certain types of opioid painkillers. Savage, Geisel ’80, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Geisel and director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction Recovery and Education.
Compton Named Interim Dean at Geisel
A distinguished researcher, Duane Compton has been a leader in graduate and medical student education.
Gowri Anandarajah (’88): On Doctoring and Spirituality
Gowri Anandarajah, a member of the Class of 1988 and a professor of family medicine at Brown, has studied the place of spirituality in medicine—for both patients and physicians.
Rehabilitation Therapy Can Cut Down Depression Risk Among People With Age-Related Vision Loss
MedIndia – Quotes Associate Professor of Psychiatry Mark Hegel who says “Occupational therapy helps people regain valued activities in their daily lives, and behavior activation capitalizes on this through formal goal setting and reinforcement of progress.”
Playing for Hope
Over the course of the World Cup, young soccer fans representing Grassroot Soccer, a nonprofit organization founded by Tommy Clark (D’92, Med’01), have had the chance to learn about creating positive change in their community and, of course, to play some soccer.