Valley News via St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Continued coverage of comments by David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how Dartmouth researchers recently found that NICU admissions increased by 23 percent in just five years; and by 2012, over half of all admissions were for normal birth weight infants or those born after 37 weeks gestation.

Valley News – Jeff Cohen, chair and professor of neurology, and Brian Spence ’96, Thayer ’95, associate professor of anesthesiology, and Timothy Scherer, instructor in medicine, were recently elected as new members of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s board of trustees.

Healio – Quotes Richard Rothstein, the Joseph M. Huber Professor and Chair of Medicine, about the safety and efficacy of the TransPyloric Shuttle—a removable weight-loss device that is inserted endoscopically through the mouth.

The Epoch Times – Quotes Lisa Marsch, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, about how major research institutions that develop carefully tested apps for mental health often don’t have the resources to market the final product or build platforms that can handle millions of users if they do become popular.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Cites research conducted by Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the effects of the drug Afinitor. Despite serious side effects, the drug has been OK’d five times in the last six years, including for a common type of advanced breast cancer.

Chronicle Daily – Cites data provided by the Dartmouth Atlas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Medical Association, FBI, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Census Bureau, which revealed the healthiest and unhealthiest U.S. states in 2015.

Valley News – Quotes C. Fordham von Reyn, professor of medicine, about how a collaborative that includes Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has received $1.4 million from the Tokyo-based Global Health Innovative Technology Fund to conduct a joint randomized clinical trial in Tanzania aimed at reducing the transmission of tuberculosis.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – An opinion piece co-authored by Brian O’Sullivan, professor of pediatrics, which uses the story of cystic fibrosis to illustrate the phenomenon of unprecedented benefits at huge costs in the era of personalized medicine.

Everyday Health – Quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, about how exposure therapy works for many conditions.

Los Angeles Times – Quotes David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how Dartmouth researchers recently found that NICU admissions increased by 23 percent in just five years; and by 2012, over half of all admissions were for normal birth weight infants or those born after 37 weeks gestation.