Watch story – The 44th annual Prouty fundraiser for the Dartmouth Cancer Center raised a record $10.1 million. The $1 million of new funds will be allocated to support the expansion of mental health services for families and patients at Dartmouth Cancer Center. (Picked up by Yahoo! News.)

Read article – Steven Leach, director of Dartmouth Cancer Center, is quoted in an article celebrating community support at the Prouty this weekend. More than 4,300 participants and 750 volunteers participated in this year’s event. “Community support is absolutely critical in advancing cancer care,” said Leach.

Read article – Features a Q&A with Marcus Shaker, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, about allergy anxiety. “Patients with food allergy can have generalized anxiety, food-specific anxiety, or both, and each form of anxiety can influence the other,” Shaker said.

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in an article about digital technology as a viable treatment option for schizophrenia. “The effect sizes weren’t just significant; they were huge and clinically meaningful—and mirrored what you’d see in a gold standard dose of evidence-based treatment delivered by humans over a longer period of time,” Jacobson said of Therabot, a generative AI-powered therapy chatbot.

Read artilce – A feature story about new research co-authored by Eric Henderson, an adjunct associate professor of engineering and an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, and Samuel Streeter, an assistant professor of orthopaedics, who discovered a new fluorescent molecule that makes cancer cells “glow” during surgery. “Visually highlighting soft-tissue cancers so that they can be removed more reliably will lead to higher cure rates,” Henderson said. (Picked up by Yahoo! News.)

Read article – Keith Loud, MD, chair and associate professor of pediatrics, writes a letter to the editor providing more context about the threat of firearms to children in the U.S. “The Ad Council’s #AgreeToAgree campaign, of which my children’s hospital is a sponsor, aims to raise awareness that, like motor vehicle accidents, firearms are a leading cause of death and injury in youths. And like motor vehicle accidents, harm from firearms can be prevented with common-sense, nonpartisan solutions,” Loud said.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Margaret Karagas, PhD, chair and professor of epidemiology, in an article about arsenic levels in rice. Karagas states that arsenic levels are most concerning for young children and pregnant women, but there are ways to reduce exposure.