Read article – Features a conversation with Katy Milligan ’90, Tuck ’07, adjunct professor, and program director of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, about her positive experience with a HyFlex model of learning. “Because our students have demanding jobs and important personal commitments, they need predictability and flexibility in their educational requirements and a high service level from faculty and staff,” Milligan said.

Read article – Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted in an article about his co-authored study that found that people who use at-home COVID-19 self-test kits after experiencing symptoms may not quarantine after a negative result. “The results of this study show how important it is to ensure that people know how to interpret and act on home test kit results,” Woloshin said.

Read article – Quotes Anne Hoen, associate professor of epidemiology, and Anne Sosin ’02, a policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, in an article warning about the outlook for COVID-19 as new Omicron cases begin to fall. “It is possible that the end of the Omicron wave will be followed by a period of low case numbers and low risk,” Hoen said. “But we know that this virus can evolve to evade immunity conferred by currently available vaccines or by previous infection, and when that happens, we will probably experience another epidemic wave.” (Picked up by Valley News.)

Read article – Steven Leach, the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer and director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is quoted in an article about a donation to Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health to launch a new research institute at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. “Thanks to the vision of Dorothy Byrne and her late husband, Jack, this transformative gift is the beginning of a major mobilization of investment in our research and discovery enterprise,” Leach said.

Read article – George O’Toole, professor of microbiology and immunology, is mentioned as a co-author of the study that describes how, when biofilms form, bacteria communicate with their descendants using a chemical signal analogous to radio transmissions.

Read article – Ashley Yang, Geisel ’24, and Maggie Sherin ’18, Geisel ’24, co-author an opinion piece about their support for the passing of SB 399 and SB 436 that would repeal the Fetal Health Protection Act and ensure access to safe, legal abortion care in New Hampshire. “We need to protect people’s access to all safe medical procedures, including abortions, to ensure that they have every option available to them,” the authors said.

Read article – Quotes Madeline Dalton, professor emerita of pediatrics and biomedical data science, in an article about the scrutiny over McDonald’s social media strategy. A lot of parents think a 3-year-old is too young to be influenced by advertising, but apparently they are,” Dalton said. (Dalton’s comments first appeared in Food & Wine.)

Read article – Yinong Young-Xu, assistant professor of psychiatry, writes an article about a study on the effectiveness of the flu vaccine for veterans age 65 and older with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Watch video – Lisa Adams, associate dean for global health and professor of medicine, is interviewed about the updated mask mandate in Brattleboro, Vt. “Getting a supply of KN-95 makes good sense,” Adams said. “And again, thinking about are there situations in which you might want to use that KN-95?”