Read article – Margaret Karagas, chair and professor of epidemiology, is quoted about how soaking rice and cooking it with extra water is a smart strategy for consumers to reduce the amount of arsenic, but says that finding ways to keep arsenic out of rice and other food products in the first place is still an important concern.

Read article – An opinion piece co-authored by Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, professor of community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; about how innovations in health care diffuse unevenly across geographic regions — not unlike the spread of a contagious disease. And even when studies show a new technology is overused, retrenchment is very slow and seemingly haphazard.

Read article – Article highlights the growing MD-MBA programs across the US. Michael Zubkoff, PhD, director of Geisel’s MD-MBA program is quoted about the Medical Care and the Corporation elective course. “It’s become a very popular course because it mixes together students from medical school and business school in an environment where they work together and learn from each other,” said Zubkoff.

Read article – A feature story about TDI student Kyla Donnelly Pearce who started a program to study how practicing gentle yoga regularly might help patients with brain injuries cope. Pearce found that patients who took the yoga classes reported feeling “less bothered by negative emotions, including feeling lonely, bored, anxious, sad or depressed and/or angry or aggressive.”

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how Rep. Tom Price, President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has criticized a task force of medical experts whose recommendations guide health screening and disease prevention. Price pushed HHS to quash the task force’s recommendations to limit widely used cancer screenings. “The dirty underbelly of screening is that it’s a great way to get more patients,” says Welch, a close observer of the task force’s work. “The financial underpinnings are huge.”

Read article – Photo of Geisel students at vigil in support of the Affordable Care Act along with quotes from Amer Al-Nimr, assistant professor of pediatrics and of medicine; Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies; and President Phil Hanlon in an article that examines reactions to President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order in the Upper Valley.

Read article – The Dartmouth covered the “Dartmouth Protect Our Patients Vigil” event focused on patient-centered advocacy efforts against the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, engaging medical students, clinicians and staff in tandem with larger hospital organizations.