Articles by: Geisel Communications

PATH Study Will Improve Understanding of Tobacco Use, Associations with Health Outcomes – Healio HemOnc Today

Read article – The Geisel School of Medicine collaborated on a study that found that more than one in four adults and nearly one in 10 young adults in the United States report some form of tobacco use. The study was conducted as a joint effort through the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH), meant to assess tobacco trends in the United States.

Dr. Mariétou Ouayogodé on Predictors of ACO Performance on Preventive Care – The American Journal of Managed Care

Read article – A video interview with Mariétou Ouayogodé, PhD, post-doctoral fellow at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, regarding Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), revealed that those with more primary care physicians performed better on preventive care quality measures, and infrastructure and financing were also predictive of better performance.

Costs Up with Specialist as Predominant Provider of Care – Medical Xpress

Read article – An article about a study conducted by Julie P.W. Bynum, associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute, associate professor of medicine, and co-director of data analytic core, found that using propensity score matching involving beneficiaries aged 65 years and older with multimorbidity found that, compared to those with a primary care PPC, individuals with a specialty PPC had more hospitalizations and higher spending, although little difference was seen in mortality or preventable hospitalizations.

Researchers Find Strong Link Between Fast-food Ads and Consumption Among Preschoolers – Medical Xpress

Read article – According to a new Dartmouth-led study, preschool age children who are exposed to child-targeted fast-food advertising on television are considerably more likely to consume fast-food products. “I think what’s significant about this study is we’re using scientific methods we’ve developed over the past two decades to measure media and advertising exposure in an objective way, so that the findings are generalizable to real life and we’re able to control for influences that we know are important—like parents’ fast-food consumption and the overall amount of TV that children watch,” said Madeline Dalton, PhD, lead author on the study, professor of pediatrics and professor of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine, and professor of The Dartmouth Institute.

When Doctors Should Ignore End-of-Life Directives – Next Avenue

Read article – In an op-ed, Kathryn B. Kirkland, professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, professor of The Dartmouth Institute, interim section chief of palliative care, and director of the humanities in the medicine program in the department of medicine, argues that there are times when doctors should ignore end-of-life directives. “…Making sure your surrogates know what is important to you is critical. They will be the ones to tell your doctors whether to use life support in situations of uncertainty,” said Kirkland. (Kirkland is also participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project.)

Immunity Against Melanoma Is Only Skin Deep – Medical XPress

Read article – An article about a newly published study by researchers at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that unique immune cells, called resident memory T cells, do an outstanding job of preventing melanoma. “While we have shown that these T cells can kill melanoma in skin, we still need to determine whether they exist in other organs such as [the] lung, where metastatic melanoma grows,” said lead author Mary Jo Turk, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology. “Since our study identifies that resident memory T cells are critical for protection against tumors, and that T cells in skin provide long-term immunity to melanoma, the generation of such cells should be the goal of future cancer therapies.”

Doctors Question Whether Brain Tumor Caused JCC Hoaxer to Make Bomb Threats – Forward

Read article – Quotes Jeffrey Cohen, chair and professor of neurology, in an article about how the family of the 18-year-old Israeli-American suspected of making hundreds of fake bomb threats at American Jewish institutions claim a brain tumor was the cause of his behavior. Cohen says that such a tumor usually causes sensory issues and not behavioral problems. “I’m not saying it is impossible,” says Cohen. “It would just be in the realm of something so rare we would write a medical article about it.”