Valley News – James Bell, a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at Geisel, has retired after a 41-year career at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt. He was the course director for the scientific basis of medicine cardiology class for second-year medical students at Geisel from 1983-2014, and served as advising dean and head of the Lucile Smith Society. Graduating medical students selected Bell as basic science teacher of the year and he was named clinical teacher of the year three times.

WCAX-TV – A feature story on the new Williamson Translational Research Building located on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center campus. The story quotes Alan Green, chair and professor of psychiatry and professor pharmacology and toxicology; Gregory Tsongalis, professor of pathology; and Sarah Pletcher, assistant professor of surgery and of medicine; on the benefits of the new building. The video also features comments from Ryan Halter, adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Geisel and assistant professor of engineering at Thayer, about how the new building will enable the development of medical devices of the future.

MedCityNews – Quotes Stephen Bartels, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging’s collaboration with Wellframe, a digital health startup that works with health plans to extend care management.

BuzzFeed – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how the American Medical Association called for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices. “Drugs aren’t like everything else, people don’t need to be sold on the newest and brightest drug,” says Schwartz. “People need to be educated on the benefits and harms, but that’s not what drug ads do.”

WCAX-TV – As a guest on WCAX, H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses the American Cancer Society’s recently changed recommendations for breast cancer screening.

New Hampshire Union Leader – Article mentions that Seddon Savage, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction Recovery and Education, recently participated in the Catholic Medical Center’s Summit on Management of the Opiate-dependent Patient and Optimal Pain Treatment where she addressed starting or continuing opioid therapy safely and assessing and managing aberrant medication-taking behavior.

I4U News – Quotes Margaret Karagas, chair and professor of epidemiology and professor of community and family medicine, who is the senior author on a study examining the effects on arsenic exposure on children before birth. The study found that children of pregnant women who were exposed to arsenic are more prone to infections. The article also notes that the study was led by Shohreh Farzan, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of epidemiology.

U.S. News & World Report – Article quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, who has been working with other PTSD experts to advocate for a treatment that proactively stops the development of PTSD after a person has experienced trauma.

CNN – Additional coverage of comments by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, about her recent research findings that fast food ads featuring toys may influence the entire family to eat more frequently at fast food restaurants. “It is a dual-pronged approach where food manufacturers are targeting kids to pester (their parents) for these products, and then manufacturers are marketing to parents to get them to think these products are healthy and not to feel guilty about buying them,” says Emond.