Listen to story – Features Stewart Tepper, MD, a clinical professor of neurology, in an interview about the approval of STS101, a nasal powder agent, as a new treatment for patients with acute migraine.

Read article – Matthew Davis, MED ’10, an adjunct associate professor of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about his research into the health effects of eating an apple a day. “The main finding, that there isn’t much of an association between people who regularly consume an apple a day and the likelihood of visiting a physician, is because it’s complex,” Davis said.

Read article – Ira Byock, MD, a professor emeritus of medicine, is quoted in an article about experiencing death as a medical student. “Every physician has a first patient who dies, and it’s often sad and wrenching. And it’s an initiation into real doctoring,” Byock said.

Read article – Steven Woloshin, MED ’96, a professor of medicine and community and family medicine at Geisel, co-authors an opinion piece about errors in a recent Make America Healthy Again report that miscited his research. “This is sloppy work which undermines faith in the whole report. A government report meant to influence the lives of millions of Americans should be thoroughly vetted and based on the most reliable sources,” Woloshin writes.

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, PhD, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in an article about the proposed use of AI in mental health care, particularly at a time when human therapists aren’t available. “The FDA wasn’t built for these types of tools,” Jacobson said of chatbots.

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, PhD, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in an article about integrating digital biomarkers into clinical trials. “It’s possible that digital biomarkers could detect treatment responses or subtle changes more quickly or sensitively than conventional methods, potentially leading to more efficient trial designs,” Jacobson said. “They also provide valuable information on how a treatment impacts everyday life outside the clinic setting.”

Read article – Erika L. Moen, PhD, an associate professor of biomedical data science, is featured in an article about her research into strategies that may be used to help mitigate oncologist shortages. “One of the things that has been getting a lot of traction has been virtual tumor boards,” Moen said.

Read article – Research by Megan Romano, PhD, an associate professor of epidemiology, is featured in an article about the risk of PFAS exposure during pregnancy. “Some toxins sneak through because they’re similar in shape and size to things that the fetus might need to grow,” Romano said.

Read article – Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics, has been named by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as one of the eight new members on a government panel of vaccine advisers. (Similar coverage in Yahoo! News.)