Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, in an article about how the interior design of a spacecraft can potentially affect the behavior of the passengers. Buckey, a former NASA astronaut, comments on the Russian cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev, who wrote about his strained experience spending 211 days on board a tiny space station called Salyut-7 in 1982, with just one other crew member. “It’s a really compelling story because there were periods of time they weren’t even talking to each other,” says Buckey. “They had a really high rate of psychosocial problems, part of which might have been due to the environment they were in.”
Articles by: Geisel Communications
There’s Arsenic and Lead in Many Brands of Fruit Juice. Should You Be Concerned? – WABE via NPR
Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Margaret Karagas, the James W. Squires Professor and chair of epidemiology, and professor of community and family medicine; and Carolyn Murray, assistant professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; in an article about a new report conducted by the consumer-advocacy organization Consumer Reports that tested 45 fruit juices, including apple, grape and juice blends, and found that 21 of them had “concerning levels” of cadmium, arsenic, and/or lead.
Winter Bugs: The Viruses, Infections & Illnesses (Audio) – NHPR
Read article – As guests on The Exchange, Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, and Douglas Phelan, Geisel ’17, discuss why we tend to get sick in the winter, why some people are more affected than others, and how to protect yourself and those around you. (This show aired live at 9 a.m. and will rebroadcast at 7 p.m.)
There’s Arsenic and Lead in Many Brands of Fruit Juice. Should You Be Concerned? – NPR
Read article – Quotes Margaret Karagas, the James W. Squires Professor and chair of epidemiology, and professor of community and family medicine; and Carolyn Murray, assistant professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; in an article about a new report conducted by the consumer-advocacy organization Consumer Reports that tested 45 fruit juices, including apple, grape and juice blends, and found that 21 of them had “concerning levels” of cadmium, arsenic, and/or lead.
Update – Susan Dentzer DC ’77 to Speak at Geisel Senior Capstone Course
Susan Dentzer DC ’77 will give a talk for the Geisel senior capstone course on Thursday, February 7, 9:00 – 11:00 AM, in DHMC Auditoriums E/F. The talk is open to the Geisel and D-H communities and is entitled “Health Care Without Walls: What It Could Mean For Practice, Education, and the System.” Dentzer is one of the nation’s most respected health and health policy thought leaders and a frequent speaker and commentator on television and radio, including PBS and NPR, and an author of commentaries and analyses in print publications such as Modern Healthcare. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, the Washington, DC-based arm of Duke University that focuses on health system transformation, biopharmaceutical policy, and other key health policy issues. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Geisel School of Medicine.
Can AI Help Improve Medical Communications? – Market Business News
Read article – Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of community and family medicine, in an article about the potential of AI to improve communications in healthcare settings. “Many clinicians’ communications skills aren’t formerly assessed—either during school or in early practice. At the same time, there is a lot of evidence that clinicians often struggle when communicating with their patients,” says Elwyn. “It’s hard to improve on something when you’re not being given any feedback and don’t know how you’re doing.”
FDA Discusses Using Drug Therapy to Help Teens Quit Vaping – The Fix
Read article – Quotes Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how the FDA recently held a public hearing to discuss the vaping epidemic among teens. “Clinicians urgently require new solutions to safely and effectively help stop [adolescents] using these and all tobacco products for good,” says Tanski. “There is unfortunately virtually no data on how to treat an adolescent with e-cigarette dependence.”
The FDA Is Considering Drugs to Help Kids Quit Vaping – The Philadelphia Tribune via CNN
Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how the Food and Drug Administration is considering the role of drug therapies to get kids to quit vapes and other nicotine products, with medical organizations and vaping groups weighing in during a public hearing Friday on how to address rising levels of e-cigarette use among youth. (Picked up by WKTV.)
The FDA Is Considering Drugs to Help Kids Quit Vaping – CNN
Read article – Quotes Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how the Food and Drug Administration is considering the role of drug therapies to get kids to quit vapes and other nicotine products, with medical organizations and vaping groups weighing in during a public hearing Friday on how to address rising levels of e-cigarette use among youth. “These products deliver very high levels of nicotine, meaning that even brief experimentation is likely to put adolescents at risk for long-term dependence,” Tanski, former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, told the FDA. (Picked up by WHNT, WSLS, WREG, KTLA, and many more.)
WHO Names Anti-Vax Top Health Threat: Hysteresis May Describe Movement – Clinical Advisor
Read article – An article about how the World Health Organization (WHO) named vaccine hesitancy one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019 and quotes Feng Fu, assistant professor of mathematics and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical data science. “Once people question the safety or effectiveness of a vaccine, it can be very difficult to get them to move beyond those negative associations,” says Fu, about research he led that explained that hysteresis may describe persistent vaccine skepticism. “Hysteresis is a powerful force that is difficult to break at a societal level.”