Read article – Features a study conducted by Ryan McCool, assistant professor of surgery, and Louise Davies, associate professor of surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, with researchers from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the White River Junction Veterans Affair hospital that found that telemedicine programs saved veterans an average of 142 minutes and 145 miles per healthcare visit between 2005 and 2013.

Read article – Cites a 2004 study published in Health Affairs by Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about what information in drug ads is useful to consumers.

Read article – Quotes Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about Vice President Joe Biden’s comments regarding the White House’s $1 billion cancer “moonshot” effort aimed at speeding up science fast enough to make a decade’s progress […]

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Read article – Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about how many energy supplements have yet to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which means they haven’t been tested and/or backed by a reputable source other than the company producing it for its consumers.

Read article – Features research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine which found that the gut microbe composition of infants who are six weeks old depends on their birth delivery method and how they are fed. The researchers observed 102 infants who were approximately 40 weeks to determine the associations of delivery mode and feeding methods with infant intestinal microbiome composition at about six weeks of life.

Read article – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, on the harms of sleeping pills. Article mentions that Schwartz has worked with Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs on sleeping pill effectiveness and safety.

Read article – Quotes Jon Lurie, associate professor of medicine, orthopaedic surgery, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how one reason surgery rates vary from place to place is due to the enthusiasm of providers.

Read article – Features a report by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that seniors across the country are interacting with the health care system in very different ways—and with very different regularity. While seniors living in Manhattan, N.Y., have had contact with the health care system nearly 25 days in a year, Medicare beneficiaries in Lebanon, N.H., made far less contact, at roughly 10 days.

Read article – Julie Bynum, associate professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about a report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project that used Medicare claims data to examine aging Americans’ health care and found that as people get older, their health-care goals may shift away from living as long as possible to maintaining a good quality of life. In key areas, however, the treatment that older people receive often doesn’t reflect this change.

Read article – Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted on the importance of expanding the use of advanced care planning directives and improving end-of-life planning in the Upper Valley. “Most Americans want to die with their loved ones in non-institutional settings, (yet) most Americans die in institutional settings,” Fisher said.