Read article – Quotes Michael N. Young, assistant professor of medicine, from an editorial he co-authored to accompany a study on the impact of the pandemic on the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. The study examined population-level data to determine how deaths due to cardiovascular causes changed in the United States in the early months of the pandemic relative to the same periods in 2019.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Anne Sosin, program director for the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth, in an article about Gov. Phil Scott’s announcement that Vermont would allow indoor high school sports to begin. The governor’s announcement, Sosin notes, was the first time since the pandemic began that she found herself disagreeing with the administration’s approach. “I think that the decision to allow indoor sports represents a notable exception to what have otherwise been the country’s most coherent and effective public health measures,” said Sosin.

Read article – Quotes Anne Sosin, program director for the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth, in an article about COVID-19 vaccination delays in the Upper Valley.

Read article – Quotes Janet Peacock, professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science, in an article about how the modern use of “P-values” to measure statistical significance has morphed from its intended purpose in interpreting clinical literature.

Read article – Quotes Steven Fiering, professor of microbiology and immunology, in an article about the efficacy of certain COVID-19 vaccines developed in China, India, Russia, and the U.K. The article notes that some data for the vaccines are confusing, unpublished, or nonexistent and that scientists’ reactions to their authorization are mixed. “This is an emergency situation,” said Fiering. “So you can make the argument about the damage of waiting, or you could make the argument that it could be a disaster because you are putting this into a lot of people’s arms without having adequate data. But we don’t even have long-term data on the vaccines we’ve authorized either, so we’re cutting that corner. Different countries make different decisions based on their resources.”

Read article – Quotes Steven Leach, the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, in an article about the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer—a new accelerator that aims to provide entrepreneurial guidance to cancer researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. “The best, most efficient way for us to bring Dartmouth’s biomedical discoveries to cancer patients around the world is through entrepreneurship,” says Leach.

Read article – An article about a study led by Lesley Jarvis, associate professor of medicine, and Brian Pogue, the MacLean Professor of Engineering, that examined the practical utility of Cherenkov imaging—a novel technique that captures light emissions during radiotherapy.

Read article – As a guest on Bloomberg Markets: The Close, Elliott Fisher, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses the disbanding of the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan healthcare venture Haven, and how to manage healthcare costs. (Fisher’s comments appear at approximately 22:15.)

Listen now – As a guest on The Mind Body Connection, Bill Hudenko, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, discusses the intersection of technology and mental health, neurodiversity, mental health stigma, decision making, and more.

Read article – An opinion piece co-authored by Anne Sosin, program director for the Center for Global Health Equity at Dartmouth; Maryellen Griffin, a housing attorney and manager of the housing task force at Vermont Legal Aid; and Mairead O’Reilly, a medical legal partnership attorney at Vermont Legal Aid. The authors discuss how a key component of Vermont’s successful COVID-19 response has been its focus on housing for the state’s most vulnerable residents.