Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how getting your own blood tests is part of the larger negative trend—testing people who aren’t really sick. The article also quotes Norman Paradis, professor of medicine, who calls the model of offering a wide assortment of tests a recipe for disaster.
Articles by: Geisel Communications
Stop Hyping Stem Cell Science, Say Stem Cell Scientists – Bloomberg
Read article – Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about how press releases, popular media, and even some journal articles routinely inflate expectations for future therapies based on early findings that probably will never turn into cures. “This is a problem throughout medical research and reporting on medical research,” says Woloshin.
Closing the Gap
With the opening of its Williamson Translational Research Building (WTRB), the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth hopes to move discoveries more rapidly from lab to clinic.
Dartmouth-Stanford Study Finds Health Advertorials Misleading but Persuasive
Health advertorials, or advertisements camouflaged as credible news, succeed in misleading people, in part, by tamping down their skepticism and expectations for truth in advertising, a Dartmouth College-Stanford University study finds.
Study: Health Advertorials Persuasive, Misleading – UPI
Read article – Quotes Sunny Jung Kim, postdoctoral fellow at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, who co-authored a recent study on health advertorials, a form of native advertising made to look like reported content in a publication or on television, and found that they work to deceive their viewers and lower consumer awareness.
Serotonin Reduces Apnea, Could be Clue to SIDS – Sleep Review Magazine
Read article – James Leiter, professor of physiology and neurobiology and of medicine, who was the lead investigator of the study that found serotonin, is quoted about a neurotransmitter in the brain, shortens periods of apnea and promotes inspiration.
What Is Drawing Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and Other AMCs to Florida? – Becker’s Hospital Review
Read article – Cites figures from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which showed average Medicare spending in 2012 for a Rochester, Minn., resident was $7,325, compared to the $11,239 average in Jacksonville, Fla.
Is Contrave Worth Trying If You Want to Lose Weight? – Consumer Reports
Read article – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), about how she and colleague Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of TDI, reviewed the studies that weight loss drug Contrave’s manufacturer, Orexigen Therapetutics, used to gain approval of the drug from the Food and Drug Administration. “The studies show that Contrave caused many people to feel sick,” says Schwartz.
Valley Parents: Group Bridges Gap for LGBT Teens – Valley News
Read article – Feature article about Ana Rodriguez-Villa, a second year Geisel student, and Brendin Beaulieu-Jones, ’13, also a second-year med student at Geisel, who co-founded the group Bridges, a peer support group for LGBT teens, last April as part of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. As Schweitzer fellows, Rodriguez-Villa and Beaulieu-Jones have developed a curriculum for training first- and second-year medical students to work with LGBT individuals in a clinical setting.
Geisel Students Named 2016-2017 NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows
Ten first-year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have been selected as 2016-17 New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.