Read article – Quotes A. James O’Malley, professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical practice and of biomedical data science, about the recent release of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services star ratings for 3,662 American hospitals.

Read article – Alison Volpe Holmes, an assistant professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute, is quoted in this article highlighting new approaches in treating infants experiencing neonatal abstinence syndrome, caused by opioid exposure during pregnancy. The article also highlights a three-year project by faculty, staff and students at CHaD and Geisel to develop better ways to care for infants with NAS.

Read article – Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, is quoted about a recent paper that examined how deep space travel may have affected the cardiovascular health of Apollo astronauts. Buckey notes that unexplored risk factors could also explain why two Apollo astronauts died of cardiovascular disease. “Were they smokers? Did they have a family history of heart disease? Did they have high cholesterol? Those are all factors that could lead to heart disease, without having to bring galactic cosmic radiation into the mix,” says Buckey.

Watch story – WMUR-TV story examines the life and career of Nathan Smith, who founded Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in 1797. Smith was the school’s only professor for 10 years, and during his time at the College he treated the leg injury of six-year-old Joseph Smith, who later became the founder of the Mormon religion.

Read article – An opinion piece by Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a patient he lost to the opioid epidemic and, potentially, to unintended consequences of a measure providers are urged to use in the new legislation regarding opioid contracts just passed by the U.S. Senate, which Obama is expected to sign into law.

Read article – Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, are quoted about how cancer center ads “generally make appeals based on emotion—not fact,” and that “hope can—and often does—morph into hype.”

Read article – Article cites a book co-authored by Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, where they discuss how there are diminishing returns to many technological advances in healthcare.

Read article – Features research by David Bzik, professor of microbiology and immunology, and colleagues at the Geisel School of Medicine that found a safe, non-reproducing vaccine strain of T. gondii could cure mice of several types of solid tumors. (Similar coverage in Irish Mirror, The Star, The Sun.)

Read article – Judy E. Stern, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and professor of pathology, is quoted about the potential health risks of egg donation.