Read article – Elizabeth Talbot, a professor of medicine, is featured in an article about outbreaks of walking pneumonia—mycoplasma pneumoniae infections—in China, Denmark, France, and the U.S. in Ohio. “There are antibiotics that can treat this,” Talbot said.

Read article – Elizabeth Talbot, a professor of medicine, is featured in an article about pneumonia outbreaks in China, Denmark, France, and the U.S. in Ohio. “Clusters and outbreaks of Mycoplasma pneumonia are indeed normal,” Talbot said. “Epidemics of Mycoplasma pneumonia do tend to be cyclical, occurring every 4 to 8 years in the general population but can occur anytime among people living closely together, like those in military barracks and prisons,” Talbot said.

Watch video – Kendall Hoyt, faculty director for the Dickey Global Health Initiative’s Pandemic Security Project and assistant professor of medicine, and Ford von Reyn ’67, MED ’69, are featured in a segment about the vaccine conference hosted at Dartmouth this week. It was at Dartmouth that the technology behind the mRNA vaccine for COVID was invented and research is currently underway for a COVID vaccine nasal spray. “It’s a remarkable legacy,” von Reyn said.

Read article – Ron Adner, a professor of business administration, and James N. Weinstein, a professor emeritus of orthopaedics and former CEO and president of Dartmouth Health, co-author an opinion piece about the potential of generative AI in health care. “Channeled correctly, AI really can be a rising tide that lifts a great many boats. And like a tide, it is already coming in,” Adner and Weinstein write.

Read article – Quotes Elisabeth Wilson, a professor of community and family medicine, in an article about efforts by U.S. lawmakers to overhaul the primary care system. “We’re thrilled to have more nurse practitioners and more physician assistants,” said Wilson. “The onus is on us to help people understand that as a team we actually provide better care and they will have better outcomes.”

Read article – Julia Frew, an assistant professor of psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and medical education, is featured in an article about coming off mental health medications. “My number one most important piece of advice is to talk through the decision with a provider,” Frew said.

Read article – Peter Wright, a professor of pediatrics and an infectious disease physician, is featured in an article about the development of a COVID-19 nasal spray vaccine. “The injected mRNA vaccines have been incredibly valuable in preventing serious illness and death, but they haven’t been able to stop transmission,” Wright said. “The inhaled COVID vaccines in development could finally impact that, because they stop the virus from growing in the nasal cavity.”

Read article – Marcus Shaker, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, is featured in an article about new guidelines for epi-pen users. “Needing to activate EMS created a barrier to epinephrine use for families,” Shaker said.