Read article – Gwenyth Gasper, MED ’26, is featured in an article about her research into neonatal intensive care unit capacity. “Increased numbers of NICU beds and NICU doctors over the past 30 years had no effect on the risk of newborn death,” Gasper said.

Read article – Will King, a research technician at the Geisel School of Medicine, writes an opinion piece in defense of NIH funding. “This is an American investment in American innovation to find American cures,” King writes.

Read article – Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., met with officials from Dartmouth, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Cancer Center, and DHMC to discuss the ways that the Trump administration is disrupting health care and medical research. Dean Madden, vice provost for research; Meagan Stabler, an assistant professor of community and family medicine; Kay Jankowski, an associate professor of psychiatry; and Steven Leach, director of the Dartmouth Cancer Center, discussed their concerns.

Read article – Harold C. Sox Jr, a professor emeritus of medicine, is quoted in an obituary for Dr. Sheldon Greenfield. “We hear a lot about the shortage of primary-care physicians,” Sox said. “Dr. Greenfield’s work showed that good primary care matters a lot.”

Read article – Audrey H. Calderwood, an associate professor of medicine, co-authors a review of currently available bowel purgative agents for colonoscopy and other bowel preparation–related procedures.

Read article – Features a study by Noelle Kosarek, Guarini, and Michael Whitfield, chair and professor of biomedical data science, into the distribution of people diagnosed with systemic sclerosis across the U.S. “Most studies that have tried to answer this question were limited to small regions within counties or individual states,” Kosarek and Whitfield said in a joint statement. “Our study sought to fill this gap in knowledge by analyzing the geographic distribution of SSc in a U.S. Medicare beneficiary population.”

Read article – Steven Leach, director of the Dartmouth Cancer Center, is featured in an article about funding delays and disruptions facing National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers. “We were ranked as outstanding and approved for funding,” Leach said.  “But it seems as if the chaos in Washington has led to significant delays in the delivery of that funding.”

Read article – Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics, is quoted in an article about how Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the FDA, told lawmakers that he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but would reevaluate which scientific issues require their input. “I would in no way consider him to be an anti-vaxxer,” Meissner said. (Picked up by MSN.)