Listen to story – As a guest on “The Exchange,” William Torrey, professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses how state leaders recently joined the medical and mental health community to launch “Change Direction NH,” part of a national initiative to raise awareness of mental health disorders and eliminate the stigma around these issues.

Read article – An opinion piece by Leslie Henderson, senior associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for diversity and inclusion, and professor of physiology and neurobiology and of biochemistry, about how the countersuits being brought by the federal government and states such as North Carolina over the use of bathrooms by transgender individuals highlight a critical, common and incredibly damaging misperception: that gender and biology are two separate things.

Read article – Quotes Allison Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about her recent research on babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a result of their mother’s opiate use.

Read article – Diane Gilbert-Diamond, assistant professor of epidemiology and community and family medicine, is quoted about a recent study she led with other Dartmouth researchers about how prenatal exposure to arsenic harms the health of infants.

Read article – Cites Geisel research that found that individuals with a serious mental illness, who maintained work with an average of 13.8 hours per week (5,060 hours per year), had lower mental health care costs than those who were unemployed or not steadily employed. Over the study’s 10 years, individuals who maintained steady employment had mental health medical costs that were $166,350 less per person than the group that was unable to maintain consistent employment.

Read article – Cites research from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which found that someone living in Orlando, Fla., is more than twice as likely to receive aggressive end-of-life treatment than someone in Grand Junction, Colo.

Read article – Quotes Allison Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about her recent research on babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a result of their mother’s opiate use. Her study showed that a different method for neo-natal care can address infants’ symptoms more effectively. “Even using the same medication in different settings, the babies had very different lengths of stay,” says Holmes. “So looking that as a whole you think, ‘Maybe it’s not the medication that matters but more the environment of care.'”