Children born to women who were exposed to higher arsenic during pregnancy have a greater risk of infections and respiratory symptoms within their first year of life, a Dartmouth College-led study shows.
Archive for 2015
The Type of TV Ads That Drive Family Visits to Fast Food Restaurants
Yahoo News via Reuters – Continued coverage of research conducted by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, which found that children who watch TV shows with ads for kids’ fast food meals that include toys are more likely to influence the entire family to eat more frequently at fast food restaurants. “We have to be realistic that children will watch TV,” says Emond. “But parents have many options for commercial-free programming, which are great options for parents to have more control over how marketers reach their children.”
Japan’s GHIT Fund Supports Dartmouth Researchers’ Second Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial
A collaborative of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania, and Tokyo Medical and Dental University received $1.4 million from Japan’s Global Health Innovative Technology Fund to conduct a joint randomized clinical trial in Tanzania aimed at reducing the transmission of tuberculosis.
An Eye on Microgravity
Nearly half of the astronauts on long-duration space flights return to Earth with changes in their vision and Geisel professor Jay Buckey, a former astronaut himself, is on a mission to find out why.
Charts that Show Startling Rise in Death-Rate of Large Section of Middle-Aged White Americans
The Independent – The article quotes Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, and professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, who reviewed and co-authored a commentary (with Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics) that appears with a recent study that found a large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999.
Slime Cities
Society for Science – Article quotes George O’Toole, professor of microbiology and immunology, about bacteria living in tiny “cities,” called biofilms, that can rot teeth or rust metal. “You’re actually more bacteria than person,” says O’Toole.
Prestigious Medical Journals Rejected Stunning Study on Deaths Among Middle-Aged Whites
The Washington Post – Article quotes Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, and professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, in an article about how two prestigious medical journals rejected publishing a startling new study that shows a big spike in the death rate for a large group of middle-aged whites in the United States.
Kids Meals, Toys, and TV Ads Can Lead to More Frequent Fast Food Visits
In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, Dartmouth researchers found that the more children watched television channels that aired ads for children’s fast food meals, the more frequently their families visited those fast food restaurants.
Obesity in the U.S.: Leveling Off, But at too High a Rate
NHPR – As a guest on NHPR’s “The Exchange,” Diane Gilbert Diamond, assistant professor of epidemiology and community and family medicine, discusses the U.S. obesity epidemic and how although the number of Americans dealing with the condition is leveling off, it remains a stubborn problem with research showing connections to less-recognized issues like poverty, race, and stigma.
Mannitol Shown to Not Enhance Anti-Bacterial Effect of Tobramycin in Treating Pseudomonas Aeruginos
Lung Disease News – Cites a new study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine, in collaboration with Novartis Pharmaceutical, which found that mannitol co-treatment with the antibiotic tobramycin did not enhance the antibiotic’s bacterial killing effect in a cystic fibrosis model.