Read article – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and of orthopaedics, discusses recent research he coauthored that found people with mental illness are much more likely to use opioids, despite the risks these drugs pose especially for these patients.

Read article – An opinion piece by Julie Kim, assistant professor of pediatrics, in which she discusses President Donald Trump’s tweet in support of the U.S. helping British child Charlie Gard—who suffers from a rare, congenital mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome—and how it goes against the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that he has proposed. (Kim is participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project.)

Read article – Article features Nayrana Carneiro, a third year student at Geisel, who just completed her Family Medicine rotation at Corner Medical in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom region. “Dr. Joyce Dobbertin, her preceptor, said that the patients loved Nayrana.” This fall, Nayrana will return to Dartmouth to get her MBA at the Tuck School of Business before returning to Geisel to finish her MD degree.

Read article – Additional coverage of research led by Brian Sites, professor ofanesthesiology and orthopaedics, published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, which found that more than half of all opioid prescriptions written annually are given to patients with anxiety and depression.

Read article – Quotes Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about new research he led that suggests adolescents and young adults who try e-cigarettes are more than three times as likely to take up smoking traditional cigarettes as their peers who haven’t tried the devices. “E-cigarette use among teens and young adults could increase the future burden of tobacco by creating a new generation ofadult smokers who might have otherwise not begun smoking,” says Soneji.

Read article – An article about research conducted by Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan found that people with anxiety and depression are consuming a disproportionate share of prescription painkillers. Nearly 19 percent of the estimated 38.6 million people with those two most common mental health disorders received at least two prescriptions for opioids during a year. And more than half the prescriptions for the powerful, highly addictive painkillers went to individuals in that group, the researchers asserted. Pain that “you may report as a two out of 10, someone with mental health disorders — depression, anxiety — may report as a 10 out of10,” said Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and professor oforthopaedics, and leader of the study team. Similar coverage in NHPR, STAT, San Francis Chronicle, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, New Hampshire Union Leader, Huffington Post.

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of economics, in an article about the New York State legislature’s passing of a bill mandating that insurers pay for tomosynthesis, also known as 3-D mammography.

Read article – An article about how hospitals are changing the way they care for premature babies quotes William Edwards, professor of pediatrics. “In the U.S., we are at the beginning of a trend in innovative care for preterm infants that focuses on a shift to models that are already standard in other countries, with the goal of maximizing brain development for babies who have left the womb early,” said Edwards.