Read article – Dean Madden, vice provost for research, and Jana Barnello, director of media relations and communications strategy, are featured in an article about how Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health responded to the Trump administration moves to cut billions of dollars in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health by capping indirect costs. “The result is going to be less science, fewer breakthrough therapies and less innovations,” Madden said.

Read article – A study by Benjamin Ross, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, is featured in an article about his research into the gut bacterial growth in young children with cystic fibrosis. “Our major conclusion was that in CF the microbiome really doesn’t change very much, so it’s essentially stunted or delayed in its maturation compared to healthy kids, and this failure to mature may contribute to poor health,” Ross said.

Read article – John Modlin, a professor emeritus of pediatrics, is featured in an article about how the ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Health and Human Services secretary could reshape vaccine policies. “Unfortunately, the way ACIP and other federal advisory committees are structured, there’s an opportunity for political interference from above,” Modlin said. (Picked up by New Hampshire Public Radio.)

Read article – Dean Madden, vice provost for research, is featured in a segment about President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to medical research.

Read article – Dean Madden, vice provost for research, is quoted in an article about the slowdown in awards from the National Institutes of Health to tackle areas like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. “If the federal government cuts its investment, we will have to scale back on research, and cutting-edge science will be cut short,” Madden said.

Read article – Katrina Hacker, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is featured in an article about training support staff to recognize mental health symptoms in patients with inflammatory bowel disease to prevent further traumatization. “Anxiety, depression, insomnia, PTSD—patients with IBD experience these conditions at a much higher rate than people in the general population,” Hacker said.

Read article – Daniel Lucey ’77, MED ’82, a clinical professor of medicine, is quoted in an article about the negative consequences of President Trump’s order that the U.S. will exit the World Health Organization. Lucey states that Trump’s W.H.O. exit could imperil “smallpox virus storage, experiments, reporting and inspections.”

Read article – Features an interview with Gabriel A. Brooks, an associate professor of medicine, about updated product labeling for Xeloda and fluorouracil in cancer care.

Read article – Daisy Goodman, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and  community and family medicine, is featured in an article about improving maternal health in New Hampshire and addressing racial disparities in pregnancy related deaths across the U.S. “From the perspective of racial disparity, the access to care and who gets prescribed medications and who has a follow-up visit heavily shows that Black women get about half as much care for postpartum depression as white women,” Goodman said. “Which is terrible because mental health conditions are now a leading cause of maternal mortality in this country.”

Read article – Diane Roston, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, writes an opinion piece about the limitations of modeling in health care. “Some scientific models reduce a problem to its simplest form, even if the model isn’t compatible with reality, in order to allow for workable calculation,” Roston writes.