The Huffington Post – Features a study conducted by the Geisel School of Medicine, Basset Medical Center, and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, which found that having a pet dog at home is associated with a decreased likelihood of developing childhood anxiety.

Financial Review – An opinion piece by H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how watching small cancers avoids the harms of unnecessary treatment, but likely causes patients to worry about their future. Welch recommends that we look less hard for cancer, or what he calls low-impact screening. 

The Wall Street Journal – Quotes Rowland Hazard, professor of orthopaedic surgery and of medicine, who is the director of the Functional Restoration program which offers a three-week boot camp for chronic back pain sufferers who have had disabling pain that lasts more than three months.

U.S. News & World Report – Article Quotes Margaret Karagas, chair and professor of epidemiology and professor of community and family medicine, who is the senior author on a study examining the effects on arsenic exposure on children before birth. The study found that babies exposed to high levels of arsenic in the womb are at increased risk for infections and respiratory symptoms in their first year of life.

Valley News – A feature story about Geneva Jonathan, a research assistant at Geisel’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, who is working with patients in a trial for an app meant to educate and check in multiple times a day about mental health-related issues.

Valley News – James Bell, a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at Geisel, has retired after a 41-year career at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt. He was the course director for the scientific basis of medicine cardiology class for second-year medical students at Geisel from 1983-2014, and served as advising dean and head of the Lucile Smith Society. Graduating medical students selected Bell as basic science teacher of the year and he was named clinical teacher of the year three times.

WCAX-TV – A feature story on the new Williamson Translational Research Building located on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center campus. The story quotes Alan Green, chair and professor of psychiatry and professor pharmacology and toxicology; Gregory Tsongalis, professor of pathology; and Sarah Pletcher, assistant professor of surgery and of medicine; on the benefits of the new building. The video also features comments from Ryan Halter, adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Geisel and assistant professor of engineering at Thayer, about how the new building will enable the development of medical devices of the future.

MedCityNews – Quotes Stephen Bartels, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging’s collaboration with Wellframe, a digital health startup that works with health plans to extend care management.

BuzzFeed – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how the American Medical Association called for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices. “Drugs aren’t like everything else, people don’t need to be sold on the newest and brightest drug,” says Schwartz. “People need to be educated on the benefits and harms, but that’s not what drug ads do.”