Read article – An article about the state’s response to the opioid epidemic mentions the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine is seeking to incorporate medication-assisted treatment into the four-year curriculum for all students, according to Matthew Houde, vice president of government relations at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Read article – An article about a new study that finds bacteria have so-called “memories” that are inherited by their progeny quotes study collaborator George O’Toole, professor of microbiology and immunology. These concepts were initially described in the 1930s, but it took nearly 90 years for scientists to “understand how they work hand-in-hand to help drive early biofilm formation,” said O’Toole. Similar coverage in ScienceBlog.com and Laboratory Equipment.

Read article – An article about the Manchester Fire Department’s “Safe Station,” program, which allows anyone with a drug or alcohol problem to stop by anytime and be welcomed with kindness and without judgment, quotes Lisa Marsch, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Safe Station is “a beautiful example of a community response to a crisis,” says Marsch. Picked up by Borneo Bulletin.

Read article – An interview with Charles Brenner, chief scientific advisor at ChromaDex, mentions that in 2004, while on faculty at Dartmouth College, Brenner made the foundational discovery that nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a milk-derived natural product and vitamin precursor of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).

Read article – Quotes Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University that found that Facebook’s ban on tobacco advertising hasn’t stopped tobacco and e-cigarette companies from using the platform to promote their products. “Lots of these social networking sites have this duality where they publicly proclaim to not have tobacco advertising and marketing, and have very easily searchable content that has plenty of branded tobacco advertising,” says Soneji, who wasn’t involved in the study.

Read article – An opinion piece by Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which he discusses how laws make it harder for patients with intellectual disabilities to avoid unwanted care. “In hospitals across the country, people with disabilities have been subject to all manner of substandard care, including inappropriately premature discontinuation of end-of-life care. This has improved over the past few decades, but a new systematic review shows people with intellectual disabilities still have difficulty accessing high quality end-of-life care, including palliative care specialists,” says Lahey.

Read article – A feature story about pediatrician and medical researcher Mai Khanh Tran, Geisel ’92, who announced her candidacy for California’s 39th Congressional District, joining a wave of scientists running for Congress in 2018. Tran moved to the U.S. with her family after escaping the fall of Saigon in 1975, and went on to study at Harvard—where she cleaned bathrooms as a janitor to make ends meet—before completing her medical degree.

Read article – Features comments by H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how medicine is detecting problems too early and convincing healthy people that they’re sick. Welch recently published research in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that in U.S. hospital regions with high rates of CT scans, many more kidneys are removed. When doctors look at the images, they can see the kidneys too, and often stumble on innocuous cancers. “It’s leading some people to be treated for disease that was never going to bother them,” says Welch.

Read article – An opinion piece by Julie Kim, assistant professor of pediatrics, in which she discusses how she supports medical marijuana because it removes her from the liability of prescribing opioids. “My expertise is in treating pediatric cancers. I am untrained and unsupported in managing the chronic pain or addiction issues surrounding my patients,” says Kim. “I am pro-marijuana, because I want out of the opioid business.”

Read article – Quotes Yashi Ahmed, associate professor of molecular and systems biology, about new research she led that found that a protein known as APC can “put the brakes” on a number of pathways that drive the development of colon cancer.