Read article – Highlights the Geisel School of Medicine as one of the U.S. medical schools with the highest MCAT scores for applicants. (Picked up by Yahoo! News.)

Read article – Quotes Jenn Alford-Teaster, a geospatial research project director in the department of biomedical science, in an article that shares the steps that Dartmouth-Hitchcock is asking patients and providers to take before a patient comes to the emergency department for COVID-19 screening and testing.

Read article – Cites the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare in an article about ProPublica‘s launch of a tool that allows you to look up how the number of patients with COVID-19 could affect hospitals in your area under various scenarios.

Read article – Achilles Therapeutics has announced the appointment of Sergio Quezada, MED ’04, Guarini ’04, as the company’s new chief scientific officer.

Read article – An opinion piece by Laura Ronan, associate professor of neurology and of medicine, in which she discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on graduate medical education.

Read article – Quotes Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, in an article about a new study that found that parents may allow kids to eat too much sugary breakfast cereal because the suggested serving size is smaller than they realize. “When you compute the amount of sugar by weight of the cereal, the sugar content is quite high and higher than federal recommendations,” says Emond, who wasn’t involved in the study.

Read article – Quotes family medicine doctor, John Richards ’72, Geisel ’73, of Longview, Wash., on what precautions people can take regarding COVID-19 and the coronavirus. He states that “big pharma infrastructure” in the U.S. will help researchers gain a “rapid understanding of the disease.”

Read article – The article quotes former NASA astronaut, Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, from his 2006 book Space Physiology, about the risks associated with a spacewalk. Buckey explains that “in any system, there is always the possibility of equipment failure leading to injury or death,” which is one reason why spacewalks are often “done with two spacewalkers.”

Read article – Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health will receive over $700,000 in funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to support research that tests new ways to treat and control type-1 diabetes. The five-year study, led by Catherine Stanger, associate professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will use digital tools focused on creating behavioral changes to help young people with diabetes follow a complicated medical regimen and achieve better health outcomes. “We will reach out directly to young adults with type-1 diabetes to support them in learning to better manage this complex and challenging condition,” said Stanger.