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Underground, Upper Valley’s Relics of Nuclear Terror Wait Patiently – Valley News

Read article – Quotes Harold Swartz, professor of radiology, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and of Community and Family Medicine, in an article about how fears of nuclear fallout during the Cold War led some Upper Valley residents to reinforce their homes with fallout shelters. Swartz notes that beyond the impact zones, most survivors of a nuclear attack would be fine in the shelter of their own basements. “Almost any structure will give you more protection than you would have if you were outside,” says Swartz. “Time is very much on your side. The fallout will disperse. It will blow somewhere with the wind. The radioactivity decreases very quickly with time—48, 72 hours. And unless there were an unusual weather pattern if a bomb were to hit New York or Boston, the chances of getting a lot of life-threatening fallout is not real high in the Upper Valley.”

Flight Attendants Get More Uterine, Thyroid and Other Cancers, Study Finds – The Pantagraph via CNN

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Steven Fiering, professor of microbiology and immunology and of genetics, about a new study that found that flight attendants get certain cancers more than the general population. Fiering, who was not involved in the study but conducts research on flight attendants, said he found the higher rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer among women in the study “striking”—”especially to see a close to four-fold increase in non-melanoma skin cancer; that is substantial,” says Fiering.

TECH Parenting Style Could Help Kids Manage Their Media Use – WASU via Reuters Health

Read article – Quotes Joy Gabrielli, postdoctoral research fellow, about a study she led that found that the TECH parenting style, an acronym for Talk, Educate, Co-view, and House Rules, could help families manage screen time at home. “We believe that better home media management will lead to lower youth risk for engagement in health risk behaviors such as substance abuse or risky sexual behaviors later in development,” says Gabrielli. (Picked up by KFGO.)

Flight Attendants Get More Uterine, Thyroid and Other Cancers, Study Finds – Simplemost via CNN

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Steven Fiering, professor of microbiology and immunology and of genetics, about a new study that found that flight attendants get certain cancers more than the general population. Fiering, who was not involved in the study but conducts research on flight attendants, said he found the higher rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer among women in the study “striking”—”especially to see a close to four-fold increase in non-melanoma skin cancer; that is substantial,” says Fiering. (Picked up by Muscat Daily.)

Standard Definition for ‘Overdiagnosis’ Could Better Patient Decisions About Cancer Screening – HealthImaging

Read article – Quotes Louise Davies, associate professor of surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who coauthored an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine advocated for a standard definition of “overdiagnosis” regarding cancer screenings, arguing poor understanding of the term is a threat that exposes patients to unnecessary treatments. Davies and her colleagues define overdiagnosis as “the detection of a (histologically confirmed) cancer through screening that would not otherwise have been diagnosed in a person’s lifetime had screening not been done.”

Measuring What Matters Most to People With Complex Needs – Health Affairs

Read article – A blog post by Julie Bynum, adjunct professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses the landscape around care delivery and care management for patients with complex needs. “It’s a promising time for people with high needs, whose struggle with complex care is increasingly being addressed using evidence-based models that have incentives in place for their wide-scale dissemination,” says Bynum. “Strategies for assessing quality that incorporates social care services and providers, attend to goal-aligned care plans, and consider innovative approaches to measure coordination or the lack thereof, will be important for marking the path toward better care.” (Similar coverage in Healthcare Informatics.)

The Loneliness Epidemic (Audio) – NHPR

Read article – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses how loneliness can have a powerful impact on our mental, physical, and social wellbeing. (The segment aired live at 9 a.m. and will rebroadcast at 7 p.m.)

Flight Attendants Get More Uterine, Thyroid and Other Cancers, Study Finds – CNN

Read article – Quotes Steven Fiering, professor of microbiology and immunology and of genetics, about a new study that found that flight attendants get certain cancers more than the general population. Fiering, who was not involved in the study but conducts research on flight attendants, said he found the higher rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer among women in the study “striking”—”especially to see a close to four-fold increase in non-melanoma skin cancer; that is substantial,” says Fiering.