Articles by: Geisel Communications

$25M Donation a Boost to New Research Arm at Norris Cotton Cancer Center – 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. Dorothy Byrne has given $25 million in the $50 million campaign to create the Byrne Family Cancer Research Institute.

What Types of Mental Health Apps Actually Work? A Sweeping New Analysis Takes Stock of the Evidence – STAT

Read article – Cites comments by Lisa Marsch, director of the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, and the Andrew G. Wallace Professor of Psychiatry, in an article about a meta-review of mental health interventions. Marsch noted that meta-analyses tend to group together interventions that can be quite different from one another.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Study Sets Sights on Eradicating Polio Worldwide – Valley News

Read article – Quotes Sirey Zhang ’20, Geisel ’24, and Peter Wright, professor of pediatrics, in an article about how researchers from the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are partnering with the University of Vermont and the University of North Carolina to test a polio vaccine that has high hopes of leading to polio’s complete eradication.

Imaging Among the Costliest, Most Prevalent Low-Value Services Delivered at Children’s Hospitals – Radiology Business

Read article – Quotes Samantha House, assistant professor of pediatrics and of The Dartmouth Institute, in an article about her co-authored study that found that imaging is among the most expensive and most common low-value health care services at children’s hospitals in the U.S. “As efforts increase to alleviate measurement burden in healthcare, data identifying measures that might be deprioritized are also useful,” the authors said.