Listen to story—Features Timothy Linn, an assistant professor of orthopedics and co-head team orthopedic surgeon of Dartmouth’s sports medicine department, in a Weekend Edition story about alpine skier Lindsey Vonn’s plans to compete in the women’s downhill race, Sunday, February 8. “She’s going to go side to side, but she’s not planting her foot and pivoting on it, hopefully,” Linn said. “You can engage your quads and hamstrings to stabilize the knee in a predictable way.”

Read article—Shelby Sullivan, a professor of medicine, is quoted in an article about the next wave of weight loss medication research. “The treatment difference we saw in this study, with Revita patients continuing to lose weight while sham patients rapidly regained weight, is striking. If these findings continue to hold with more data, duodenal mucosal resurfacing could represent a novel and much-needed solution to the largest gap in obesity care: post-GLP-1 weight maintenance,” Sullivan said.

Read article—Lynn Fiellin, a professor of biomedical data science, is featured in an article about a grant her play2PREVENT Lab received to develop a video game for young people on the autism spectrum. She also talks about the lab’s larger work designing games that teach adolescents and teens skills they can apply in life. “The beauty with [gaming] is that, since it’s interactive, they then, as the player, have the opportunity to do something … How do you learn to help a friend who is struggling and needs counseling? I mean, this is not something a 16-year-old necessarily knows,” Fiellin said.

Listen to story—Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, is quoted in episode four of a series on PFAS contamination in New Hampshire municipal water supplies about how “forever chemicals” behave inside the body. “We think this is part of why PFAS seem to affect so many different aspects of health, because they are able to kind of hang out in the blood. And that allows them to reach many, many target organs and affect many different places in the body, as opposed to really congregating in one section or another,” Romano said.

Read article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is cited in an article about the use of AI in therapy that goes into detail on Jacobson’s Therabot clinical trial.

Read article—Features Steven Fiering, a professor of microbiology and immunology, in an article about his co-authored research that explores how plant viruses can be used for drug delivery.

Read article—Sarah Crockett, an assistant professor of emergency medicine, is featured in an article about eating snow as a winter’s treat. “To stop and just be present and want to catch a snowflake on your tongue, or scoop up some fresh, white, untouched snow that’s collected during something as exciting as a snowstorm, I think that there’s space in our world to enjoy that,” Crockett said. “And while we need to make good choices, I think these are simple things that can bring joy.” (Picked up by The Washington Post, SF Gate, and others).