Read article – Margaret Karagas, chair and professor of epidemiology, and professor of community and family medicine, is quoted about the levels of arsenic found in rice cereal. “It’s just like lead: we don’t think there is a safe level,” says Karagas. “It’s not an essential nutrient like zinc and selenium, which you need but can be toxic if you take too much—there’s no known benefit to arsenic exposure.”

Read article – Dr. Sandra L. Wong, chair of surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Geisel, has been named the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor in Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Read article – Maria Padin, MED ’92, instructor in obstetrics and gynecology and chief medical officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, is one of 18 women from around the country selected for a Carol Emmott Fellowship, given to women in health organizations who have demonstrated potential to ascend to senior executive and board-level roles.

Read article – Cites a recent study conducted by researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that young people who began vaping were between two to six times more likely than their non-vaping peers to have also started to smoke.

Read article – An opinion piece by Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses how every U.S. state allows children younger than 18 to marry, usually with parental consent, and how as a result many minors in the United States were legally subjected to serial sexual exploitation in the form of being permitted, or perhaps coerced, to marry.

Read article – Cites a study conducted by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice that examined nearly 10,000 physicians who performed carotid revascularization—a surgical procedure used to reduce the risk of stroke by correcting narrowing in the carotid artery—and found a declining trend in the rate of carotid revascularization nationally from 2006 to 2013.

Read article – Quotes Timothy Gardner, associate professor of medicine, about a little-known complication of pancreatitis called exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, which can cause digestive problems. If you have pancreatitis, “the reason it’s important to get treated is that we really want to limit any damage that can cause problems like EPI,” says Gardner.