WMUR – Associate Professor of Medicine Elizabeth Talbot speaks out about anxieties concerning her return to New London from West Africa, where she worked to control the Ebola outbreak.
Archive for 2014
Tim Lahey: Top 10 Trends in HIV This Year
This year we have seen palpable progress in the fight against AIDS, and also some astonishing hucksterism. In celebration of World AIDS Day 2014, here are 10 of the most influential trends in HIV this year.
At the Intersection of Science, Health Care, and Technology: The Center for Surgical Innovation
A unique facility for both patient care and translational research, the new Center for Surgical Innovation at Dartmouth-Hitchcock combines interoperative imaging capabilities that give surgeons unprecedented ability to see, in real time, the tissue and organs involved in procedures.
FDA Regs Highlight Harms of Indoor Tanning
Reuters UK – Quotes Professor of Community and Family Medicine Margaret Karagas on the dangers of indoor tanning.
Should Drug Makers Be Required to Take FDA Advice on Pivotal Trials?
The Wall Street Journal – Quotes Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, professors of medicine, who argue that clinical trial designs could be enhanced and, therefore, study results may be bolstered if drug makers were mandated to submit all study protocols to the Food and Drug Administration for review.
The Williamson Translational Research Building Takes Shape
Scheduled to be completed in the late summer of 2015, the Geisel School of Medicine’s Williamson Translational Research Building will accelerate the movement of discoveries from research labs into patient care. Check out this photo gallery to see how the building is taking shape.
How Smartphone Apps Can Treat Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
Wired – Discusses technological efforts to address mental health, including CrossCheck, an application created by researchers from the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, which is not yet publicly available.
Why Children Need Authoritative Communities
Springfield News-Leader – Cites a joint study conducted by Geisel, the YMCA, and the Institute for American Values, which suggests that “authoritative communities” are essential in helping children develop meaningful relationships and connections to moral and spiritual meaning.
Dartmouth Awarded NIH Grant to Accelerate Clinical Research
Dartmouth SYNERGY has received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant that will help speed research and clinical trials of promising treatments at academic medical centers across the nation.
Geisel PostDoc Lilian Kabeche Wins Award for Cancer Research
Lilian Kabeche, a postdoctoral researcher in genetics at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center and a recent Geisel PhD graduate, received the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Beckman Coulter Distinguished Graduate Student Achievement Prize.