Read article – Quotes Allison Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about her recent research on babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a result of their mother’s opiate use.

Read article – Diane Gilbert-Diamond, assistant professor of epidemiology and community and family medicine, is quoted about a recent study she led with other Dartmouth researchers about how prenatal exposure to arsenic harms the health of infants.

Read article – Cites Geisel research that found that individuals with a serious mental illness, who maintained work with an average of 13.8 hours per week (5,060 hours per year), had lower mental health care costs than those who were unemployed or not steadily employed. Over the study’s 10 years, individuals who maintained steady employment had mental health medical costs that were $166,350 less per person than the group that was unable to maintain consistent employment.

Read article – Cites research from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which found that someone living in Orlando, Fla., is more than twice as likely to receive aggressive end-of-life treatment than someone in Grand Junction, Colo.

Read article – Quotes Allison Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about her recent research on babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a result of their mother’s opiate use. Her study showed that a different method for neo-natal care can address infants’ symptoms more effectively. “Even using the same medication in different settings, the babies had very different lengths of stay,” says Holmes. “So looking that as a whole you think, ‘Maybe it’s not the medication that matters but more the environment of care.'”

Read article – Features a new study conducted by researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which examined whether or not doctors’ actions are influenced by an interest in controlling health care costs. The researchers surveyed clinicians at Atrius Health, Massachusetts’ largest outpatient care provider, to determine what drives physicians to order tests they don’t think are in a patient’s best interest, and whether doctors were interested in controlling costs. The researchers found a big gap between physicians’ desire to limit costly and low-value care, and their ability to do so.

Listen to story – As a guest on “Northland Morning,” Shawn O’Leary, an Urban Health Scholars Advisor and a member of the Boise Forte Band of Ojibwe, discusses his innovative idea to start a spring break service project that brings first-year medical and public health students to work with Native American communities in Minnesota.