Read article – A feature story about how the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt., with support from the Geisel School of Medicine, will host the ninth international Comics and Medicine Conference from August 16 – 18, called “Comics and Medicine: The Ways We Work.”

Read article – Quotes Xiaofei He, a research associate at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and a graduate student at the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, about a new study she led that found that many women are skeptical about the concept of undergoing risk-based breast cancer screening.

Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she shares tips on how to prepare for the multiple mini interview, which has gained popularity with medical school admissions committees.

Read article – Cites a Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care study, which indicated that the availability of health care services contributes significantly to regional variation in spending in the months before death.

Read article – Features comments by H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Louise Davies, associate professor of surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid cancers.

Read article – Themarge Small, clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has been elected to serve as president of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s medical staff for the next two years.

Read article – As a guest on “Your Own Health and Fitness,” H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses his book, Should I Be Tested For Cancer? Maybe Not and Here’s Why. (Welch’s comments begin at approximately 1:40.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, in an article about how NASA has a plan to help spaceflyers cope with profound isolation during a two-year round trip to Mars.