Read article – Article highlights a list of MBA and MD/MBA programs for physicians seeking out additional management and business education.

Read article – In an opinion piece published at the Health Affairs Blog, Geisel’s Dr. Tim Lahey reminds us that while there have been many advances in HIV prevention and treatment, we still have not stopped this deadly disease.

Read article – An article featuring research led by an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and UC Davis that links a newly discovered class of bacterial enzymes to battling cystic fibrosis, a progressive, genetic disease characterized by persistent lung infections and inability to breathe normally.

Read article – Cites comments by William Weeks, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a recent study that found if male doctors were able to do as well as their female counterparts when treating elderly patients in the hospital, they could save 32,000 lives a year.

Read article – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; and H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; about a recent study of older patients hospitalized for common illnesses that found patients who got most of their care from women doctors were more likely to leave the hospital alive than those treated by men. Schwartz and Welch were not involved in the study. (Additional coverage: The Washington Post, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and more)

Read article – Quotes Richard Barth, professor of surgery, who recently led a study that recommended cutting down the number of opioids prescribed after surgery. “I suspect we are going to see a major change in the number of opioids prescribed. There are lots of things we can do, with local anaesthetics in wounds that can be used as well as taking even some medications prior to surgery and using nonopioid alternatives like acetaminophen to help,” says Barth.

Read article – Stephen Bartels, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about how Americans with severe mental illness die on average 25 years younger than their peers, not from suicide or drug abuse, but from preventable physical ailments like smoking and obesity. “This really is the largest recognized health disparity in the United States,” says Bartels. “A tragic part of the stigmatization of mental illness is the marginalization of these individuals.”