Read article – Quotes David Jevsevar, chair and assistant professor of orthopaedics, about how a joint replacement may not eliminate all pain or restore full range of motion in a hip or knee. “We can’t take someone who is doing awful and suddenly make them perfect,” says Jevsevar.

Read article – An opinion piece by Alison Volpe Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics and of The Dartmouth Institute, in which she shares her experience caring for opioid-addicted newborns, and discusses how the public needs more research into the best ways to care for those who are born dependent on drugs. “We can’t stand by as a generation is raised in foster care or orphaned. We must act now,” says Volpe Holmes. (Volpe Holmes is participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project.)

Read article – Cites comments by Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, and Jonathan Winter, assistant professor of geography and adjunct assistant professor of earth science, in a brief article about a recent CDC report that warns that Lyme and West Nile aren’t the only tick-borne diseases New Hampshire hikers should worry about this summer.

Read article – Cites comments by Seddon Savage, Geisel ’80, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology, about how much of what is sold as heroin in New Hampshire is actually partially or wholly fentanyl, a significantly more powerful drug. There are testing strips drug users can use to determine if fentanyl is present, but they don’t indicate how much of the drug is present and so do little to dissuade opioid users from using a substance that tests positive.

Read article – David Amberg ’93, an Upstate Medical University vice president, has been named interim president of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Amberg’s appointment is effective July 1. (Similar coverage in LocalSYR.com.)

Read article – Cites comments by Sarah Pratt, assistant professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, about TeleFriend, a tablet-based program which helps people with serious mental illness to monitor their illness and improve self-management of their symptoms. Pratt has been studying the program, which uses a digital format to ask patients a series of questions and offers them tips for managing their symptoms, and has found that it reduces emergency room admissions and hospitalizations. (Picked up by VTDigger.)

Read article – Quotes Daisy Goodman, clinical assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how the Geisel School of Medicine is launching new research looking at the effectiveness of treatment programs for pregnant women struggling with opioid abuse. The study is supported by a $5.3 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a DC-based nonprofit funded through the Affordable Care Act. It will take about four years to complete. “We’re in the middle of a maternal-child public health crisis around opiate use in our region,” says Goodman. “We need answers.”

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how disease-awareness campaigns may seem caring or educational but are often just marketing in disguise.