Valley News – Quotes C. Fordham von Reyn, professor of medicine, about how a collaborative that includes Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has received $1.4 million from the Tokyo-based Global Health Innovative Technology Fund to conduct a joint randomized clinical trial in Tanzania aimed at reducing the transmission of tuberculosis.
Archive for 2015
We Must Curtail Runaway Drug Prices
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – An opinion piece co-authored by Brian O’Sullivan, professor of pediatrics, which uses the story of cystic fibrosis to illustrate the phenomenon of unprecedented benefits at huge costs in the era of personalized medicine.
Exposure Therapy Isn’t Just a Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It’s Also Used to Treat Anxiety, Depression, Phobias, and More
Everyday Health – Quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, about how exposure therapy works for many conditions.
Study: More Babies Going to NICU, and More Than Half are Normal Weight
Los Angeles Times – Quotes David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how Dartmouth researchers recently found that NICU admissions increased by 23 percent in just five years; and by 2012, over half of all admissions were for normal birth weight infants or those born after 37 weeks gestation.
How Loneliness Wears on the Body
The Atlantic – An article co-authored by Timothy Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how new research supports the idea that social isolation is detrimental to physical health—and that companionship may improve it.
Underwriting Ethics, the Foundation of Health Care
Dr. Bill Nelson is passionate about teaching ethics to medical students and has made a gift to help ensure that such teaching has enduring support at the Geisel School of Medicine.
How Have Food Ads Switched Targets?
Contemporary Pediatrics – Continued coverage of research conducted by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, which calls for more research on the effects of parent-directed marketing of children’s processed foods has on the nutritional choices parents are making for their children.
Concern Over Drug Industry Involvement at India’s ‘Health Camps’
Medical Express – Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor of community and family medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how pharmaceutical sales representatives are screening people at free “health camps” for poor people in India, in return for prescriptions for their products. “This kind of behavior can actually lead to harm to patients—overdiagnosis, misclassification [of healthy people as sick], iatrogenic harm of drugs,” says Elwyn.
Community Mental Health Cuts Tied to Spike in ER Visits
Fox News via Reuters – Article quotes Ellen Meara, associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics, about how it is possible that rising unemployment rates have contributed to the increase in the number and length of mental health evaluations at ERs. “Cutting community resources to treat patients with severe mental illness is a common response to tight local budgets, but it may increase problems in other parts of the healthcare system, and the broader community,” says Meara.
At the Hospitals: Dartmouth Cardiologist Will Lead Medical Society
Valley News – John Butterly, associate professor of medicine, has been elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. “It is an honor to represent physicians in the state of New Hampshire,” says Butterly. “I think it’s a very big responsibility both as the society’s spokesperson and as an advocate on behalf of the patient population.”