Read article – A study led by Susan Roberts, senior associate dean of foundational research, is featured in an article about our nutrition needs as we age. “A cohesive body of research finds that a healthy diet and weight management are able to not only reliably delay the onset of most typical diseases and functional losses in aging, but also arrest progression and severity, and even support remission for some conditions,” Roberts said.

Read article – Susan Roberts, senior associate dean of foundational research, is quoted in an article about our nutrition needs as we age. “As you get older, something has to give,” Roberts said. “Now is the time to change your habits and lower your risk of chronic disease.”

Read article – Michael Sarra, the vice president of development & alumni engagement at Geisel, is featured in an article about CHaD HERO Day, which raises money for CHaD through a half marathon, 5K run, 5K walk, and Cam’s Course 1-Mile Fun Run. Dartmouth Health hosted the event on the Green.

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in an opinion piece about the possibility of harnessing the power of AI to treat mental health conditions.

Read article – Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, is featured in an article about blood testing for PFAS—long-lasting chemicals that break down slowly over time. “The stress of living in a community that has had environmental contamination is very real, and the health effects of living with that stress are very real,” Romano said.

Read article – Comments by Steven Woloshin, MED ’96, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute, are featured in an article about a government-appointed panel’s recommendation that women get routine mammography screening for breast cancer starting at age 40. “If there were no downsides, that might be reasonable,” Woloshin said. “The problem is false positives, which are very scary. The other problem is overdiagnosis.”

Read article – Features comments by Susan Roberts, senior associate dean of foundational research, in an article about calorie requirements as you age. Roberts notes that the age-related drop in calorie burn is usually most noticeable in your 60s and beyond.

Read article – A study by Geisel School of Medicine researchers is cited in an article about a home health fraud scam. The study found that home health agencies that share patients across multiple agencies, and those that had high rates of expenditures across hospital referral regions, were more likely to commit fraud than others.

Read article – Nick Perencevich, a clinical associate professor of surgery, writes an opinion piece about mammogram screenings. “USPSTF recommendations have serious consequences. Their recent recommendation to start at 40 is welcome, and hopefully, we will have younger women screened like before,” Perencevich writes.