NHPR – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Professor of Psychiatry Alan Budney comments on the challenges of researching marijuana and the implications of its medical use.
Articles by: Geisel Communications
Jim Weinstein: How we can increase price transparency in health care
There has been a great deal of focus in recent months on hospital prices and the need for more public reporting — more transparency. I couldn’t agree more, and that’s why Dartmouth-Hitchcock posts its prices for common procedures on its web site. But knowing price only gives you one part of what one needs to know.
Year 3: From 2D to 3D
Rachel Brickman ponders the changes in her Sunday routines and her outlook as she begins her third year of medical school.
Is a Study of HIV Treatment for Mothers in Africa Unethical?
Health Affairs – In this blog post for Health Affairs, Associate Professor of Medicine Tim Lahey discusses the PROMISE study (for Promoting Maternal and Infant Survival Everywhere), which is enrolling thousands of pregnant women with HIV in hopes of comparing mortality and other clinical outcomes between mothers who receive lifelong HIV therapy to mothers who receive shorter treatment durations if they have less advanced HIV disease. Lahey offers different experts’ views about the controversies surrounding the study.
Ortho-Oncology Team Achieves Successful Hip Articulation By Repurposing a Shoulder Surgical Aid
OncologyNurseAdvisor – An ortho-oncology team successfully adapted a shoulder surgical aid, known as the Spider Limb Positioner, to conduct a left hip disarticulation on a patient with melanoma. Quote from Eric Henderson, MD, an assistant professor of orthopaedics.
Study Provides Support for New Understanding of the Immune System
News Medical – The article discusses research conducted by Robert Cramer, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, that may shift the paradigm on immunological research and have new implications for the prevention and treatment of inflammatory diseases.
Best Birth Control for Teens: Implants, IUDs
LiveScience – Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Ann Davis comments on some of the problems with the more widely used contraceptive methods.
Modeling Shockwaves Through the Brain
MIT News – New scaling law helps estimate humans’ risk of blast-induced traumatic brain injury. Joe Rosen, a professor of surgery at Geisel, is quoted.
Road To Geisel – Greg McDonough
In this Road to Geisel segment, Geisel Interim Dean Duane Compton steps in to interview first-year medical student Greg McDonough.
Peter “Pano” T. Rodis
Peter “Pano” T. Rodis, 55, an instructor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, died on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, at his home in Sharon.