Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Elliot Fisher, professor of the Dartmouth Institute, medicine, and community and family medicine, in an article about the great cost variation between New Hampshire’s health care organizations. Fisher states that higher costs of care are almost always passed on to patients. “All of it is either passed on in terms of the price they pay through their high-deductible health plan because they have to pay the first perhaps five or ten thousand dollars,” Fisher said. “Otherwise, it’s built into their premiums.”

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Heiko Pohl, a professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute, about a study on the removal of colonic polyps.

Read article – Features Kay Jankowski, an associate professor of psychiatry, in an article about trauma-informed care for children—an approach that focuses less on punishment, and more on understanding why a child might act a certain way in stressful situations and preventing them from repeating behavior that could harm themselves or others.

Read article – Quotes Elliot Fisher, professor of the Dartmouth Institute, medicine, and community and family medicine, in an article about the great cost variation between New Hampshire’s health care organizations. Fisher states that higher costs of care are almost always passed on to patients. “All of it is either passed on in terms of the price they pay through their high-deductible health plan because they have to pay the first perhaps $5- or $10,000 dollars,” Fisher said. “Otherwise, it’s built into their premiums.” (Picked up by Valley News, and others.)

Read article – Features comments by William C. Torrey, the Raymond Sobel Professor of Psychiatry, interim chair of psychiatry, and professor of the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about the treatment of mental illness in the U.S. “The core issue with children, adolescents, and adults is that psychiatric illnesses are extremely common, they’re very painful and they sometimes can be disabling and even deadly,” Torrey said.

Read article – Eugene E. Nattie, professor emeritus of molecular and systems biology, is quoted in an article about the challenges of communicating nuanced research in the era of social media. Nattie expressed reservations about a study that found a potential link between a biomarker and a greater risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). Nattie’s reservations echoed a newsletter by economist Emily Oster that argues that the study has been vastly exaggerated to the point of being misleading.

Read article – Features comments by Daniel R. Lucey MED ’81, a clinical professor of medicine, in an article about an outbreak of hepatitis among children in the U.S. “A fundamental question is whether there is a characteristic pattern in the pathology of the liver in these patients,” Lucey said. (Picked up by Yahoo! News, Healthy Duck, and others.)

Read article – Bonny L. Whalen, assistant professor of pediatrics, is featured in a Dartmouth Health video speaking about the benefits of breastfeeding. “Any amount of breast milk and any amount of breastfeeding is very healthy for the mom and the baby,” Whalen said.

Read article – Quotes Heiko Pohl, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute, about a study on the removal of colonic polyps. “The question the study raises is relevant—we really have no good idea whether this subset of patients that are anticoagulated should always be clipped,” Pohl said.

Read article – Features an interview with Keith Paulsen, the Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor of radiology, about his research into improving breast cancer detection. “Working with a number of faculty colleagues at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and Geisel School of Medicine, we have developed a very productive and well-funded research program in biomedical engineering and imaging,” Paulsen said.