KOTA News – Cites a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine in collaboration with Consumer Reports, where they analyzed the sleep medicine Belsomra’s effectiveness and safety. The research found that people taking 15 or 20 milligrams of Belsomra got an average of about 16 minutes more sleep per night and fell asleep about 6 minutes faster compared with those who took a placebo.

Valley News – Todd Miller, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology and scientific director of the Comprehensive Breast Program at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center, has received a $450,000 grant from Susan G. Komen to study therapy resistance in breast cancer. “Understanding the biology behind tumor response to estrogens will legitimize this therapy, enable identification of patients with tumors most likely to respond, and provide strategies to enhance the therapeutic effects of estrogens,” says Miller.

Valley News – Richard J. Barth Jr., professor of surgery and chief of the section of general surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, is the first recipient of the Dartmouth SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s synergy clinician-entrepreneur fellowship. The one-year fellowship will provide Barth with resources and dedicated time to develop and study the commercial potential of a new system to improve certain types of breast cancer surgery.

Valley News – A statewide collaboration of colleges led by Geisel School of Medicine and the University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of Biomedical Research Excellence has received a five-year, $18.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand biomedical research capacity and training in New Hampshire.

East African Business Week – Agnes Binagwaho, adjunct professor of pediatrics and Minister of Health of the Republic of Rwanda, won the $100,000 Roux Prize last week for using data to improve Rwandan health. Binagwaho has been using Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data and evidence from the ministry’s own data-gathering efforts to ensure the country’s limited resources are saving the most lives and reducing suffering.

The Milton Independent – Cites a 2012 Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care study, which found Vermont has the fifth lowest hospice utilization rate in the nation at 32 percent. The national average is 49 percent; at 65 percent, Arizona’s rate is the highest.

Times-Enterprise – 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, in an article about recent research which found that people with knees worn out by arthritis will get more pain relief from joint replacement surgery, but it has more risks and there’s a good chance that less drastic approaches would also help. Goodman notes that the results of the study give “convincing” evidence that surgery helps, but that there are trade-offs on risks, and offers advice to patients weighing their options.

The Caledonian Record – A feature story on Samuel Kesseli, Geisel ’17, who is completing his six-week rotation in family medicine at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital’s Corner Medical Practice in Lyndon, Vt. Kesseli notes that attending school at Dartmouth was a great fit for him due to the rural setting and approachability of the faculty, and that he has enjoyed his rotation at Corner Medical Practice.

MSNBC – Catherine Milliken, program director of the Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program (jointly run by the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center), is a guest on MSNBC to discuss the importance of prescription monitoring and access to substance treatment resources in fighting drug overdoses, following recent remarks made by President Barack Obama on dealing with the country’s heroin epidemic.