WCAX-TV – Notes that a recent study for the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice’s Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care found that Vermont has the fifth lowest hospice utilization rate in the U.S. Just 32 percent of Vermonters use hospice care.
Archive for 2015
Mary Kay Foundation Grant Fights Breast Cancer Sleeper Cells
Thanks to a $100,000, two-year grant from the Mary Kay Foundation, Geisel researchers are launching a study to identify the biological mechanisms that allow clinically dormant ER+ breast cancer cells to survive anti-estrogen therapy.
NICU Admissions Increasing for Normal Birth Weight and Term Infants
A new Dartmouth study found that admission rates to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are increasing for newborns of all weights. In effect, NICUs are increasingly caring for normal, or near normal, birth weight and term infants. The study, recently published online by JAMA Pediatrics, raises questions about possible overuse of this highly specialized and expensive care for some newborns.
Simple Cooking Method Flushes Arsenic Out of Rice
Scientific American – Continued coverage on comments by Margaret Karagas, chair and professor of epidemiology, and professor of community and family medicine, on recent research conducted by scientists at Queen’s University Belfast, U.K., which found that preparing rice by flushing it through with fresh hot water can remove much of the grain’s naturally stored arsenic.
A Look at the Science of Sleep
NHPR – As a guest on NHPR’s “The Exchange,” Brooke Judd, assistant professor of psychiatry, discusses the latest sleep research on how much sleep you should get and how to get it.
Are Hospitals Overusing Neonatal Intensive Care?
U.S. News & World Report via Health Day News – Cites a recent study conducted by Wade Harrison, Geisel ’16, and David Goodman, MD, PhD, researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that more babies are being treated in neonatal intensive care units at many U.S. hospitals, and the infants are bigger and less premature.
Fred Hutch President Predicts Cancer Cure in 10 Years; Critics Have Heard it All Before
Health News Review – Article quotes Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the recent claim by Gary Gilliland, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, that it is plausible there will be a cure for most human cancers within 10 years. Woloshin notes that it is a “great aspiration – but, unfortunately no reason to think it’s more than a dream right now.”
At the Hospitals: VA Medical Center Surgeons Receive Career Development Awards
Valley News – Continued coverage on the career development awards given by the White River Junction VA Medical Center to Eric Henderson, assistant professor of orthopaedics, and Florian Schroeck, assistant professor of orthopaedics and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, both of whom are members of the White River Junction VA Outcomes Group.
H. Gilbert Welch: Too Many Mammograms Don’t Help
Dallas Morning News – Continued coverage on an opinion piece by H. Glibert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the limited benefits of screening for breast cancer, and how doctors should be conducting fewer screening mammograms.
Best Medical Schools for Nature Lovers
Med School Blog – Lists the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth second in a list of five of the best medical schools for nature lovers.