Read article – Quotes Saeed Hassanpour, assistant professor of biomedical data science and epidemiology, about how he and colleagues from Dartmouth have developed a deep learning model to accurately identify cancerous esophagus tissue on microscopy images instead of the high-cost, time-consuming manual annotation process used by pathologists. “Our new approach outperformed the current state-of-the-art approach that requires these detailed annotations for its training,” says Hassanpour. “The result is significant because our method is based solely on tissue-level annotations, unlike existing methods that are based on manually annotated regions.”

Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she shares five reasons that many students choose to take a fifth year to complete in medical school.  (Picked up by Yahoo! Finance.)

Read article – A feature story about a study led by Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and of orthopaedics, that found that new immigrants to the U.S. are less likely to use prescription opioids than native-born Americans.

Read article – Ellen Meara, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Meara’s appointment was announced in late October at the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. “I am incredibly honored to be recognized by the profession in this way and am eager to support (the National Academy of Medicine)’s mission of offering independent advice to improve health for all,” Meara said.

Read article – Quotes Joseph Anderson, associate professor of medicine, and Lynn Butterly, associate professor of medicine, in an article about a new study that found that colonic polyps detected in younger patients did not increase the likelihood of finding advanced adenomas, including colorectal cancer, at follow-up colonoscopy.

Read article – Quotes Karen Fortuna, assistant professor of psychiatry, in an article about how employees trust their coworkers more than their leaders with their mental health issues. “Peer support has consistently been found to reduce mental health distress and promote quality of life,” says Fortuna.

Read article – Continued coverage of research co-authored by Benjamin Ross, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, that found that efforts to improve microbiome health–including next-generation probiotics–may need to be individualized.

Read article – Brian O’Sullivan, professor of pediatrics, is quoted about a new cystic fibrosis therapy that dramatically improved patients’ lung function and showed clear signs of targeting the genetic root of the disease, instead of just alleviating symptoms—a breakthrough so long-sought that many doctors and patients are moved to tears when talking about it. “I’m in my 60s now, and I never thought I would see this day. It’s pretty amazing,” says O’Sullivan, who was not involved in the study.

Read article – An article featuring research co-authored by Benjamin Ross, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, that found that efforts to improve microbiome health–including next-generation probiotics–may need to be individualized.

Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, in an article about the impact of long space voyages on an astronaut’s mental health. Buckey, a former astronaut who flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle flight STS-90 in 1998, is running an experiment using virtual reality at the U.S. South Pole and Australian Antarctic stations this winter to see if it can help with the psychological demands of being isolated. “You do feel when you’re in the VR headset like you’ve been removed from your day-to-day environment,” says Buckey. (Picked up by Sky Statement.)