Read article – Quotes Karen Fortuna, assistant professor of psychiatry, in an article about how employees trust their coworkers more than their leaders with their mental health issues. “Peer support has consistently been found to reduce mental health distress and promote quality of life,” says Fortuna.

Read article – Continued coverage of research co-authored by Benjamin Ross, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, that found that efforts to improve microbiome health–including next-generation probiotics–may need to be individualized.

Read article – Brian O’Sullivan, professor of pediatrics, is quoted about a new cystic fibrosis therapy that dramatically improved patients’ lung function and showed clear signs of targeting the genetic root of the disease, instead of just alleviating symptoms—a breakthrough so long-sought that many doctors and patients are moved to tears when talking about it. “I’m in my 60s now, and I never thought I would see this day. It’s pretty amazing,” says O’Sullivan, who was not involved in the study.

Read article – An article featuring research co-authored by Benjamin Ross, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, that found that efforts to improve microbiome health–including next-generation probiotics–may need to be individualized.

Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, in an article about the impact of long space voyages on an astronaut’s mental health. Buckey, a former astronaut who flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle flight STS-90 in 1998, is running an experiment using virtual reality at the U.S. South Pole and Australian Antarctic stations this winter to see if it can help with the psychological demands of being isolated. “You do feel when you’re in the VR headset like you’ve been removed from your day-to-day environment,” says Buckey. (Picked up by Sky Statement.)

Read article – Features a study co-authored by Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and of orthopaedics, and fellow researchers at the University of Michigan that found that the longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to use prescription opioids—a fact that contradicts popular views linking wealth and health.

Read article – A feature story about how Saeed Hassanpour, assistant professor of biomedical data science and epidemiology, received a $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to build and validate machine learning approaches to develop better, more personalized cancer treatments.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Steve Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how the 3D mammography industry is upselling customers on high-tech breast cancer screenings.

Read article – An opinion piece by Paul Manganiello, active emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology, in which he discusses the role that humans are playing in climate change and the multifaceted nature of global warming.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Steve Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how the 3D mammography industry is upselling customers on high-tech breast cancer screenings. “There’s a lot of money to be made,” says Woloshin, who published a study in January showing that the healthcare industry spends $30 billion a year on marketing. (Similar coverage in Health Imaging, FierceHealthcare, and The Eagle.)