Read article – Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, is quoted about research presented at the American Headache Society virtual meeting on the use of Intranasal INP104, dihydroergotamine mesylate (DHE) as a treatment for migraines. “One of the most useful features of DHE is that it tends to give a complete acute migraine treatment, that is, a pain-free response without return of headache and without need for retreatment or rescue medication — a one-and-done outcome,” said Tepper.

Read article – A study by researchers from multiple institutions, including Dartmouth, finds that patients with atrial fibrillation who used mHealth wearable devices, such as smartwatches, were more likely to access healthcare services

Read article – Tricia Groff, assistant professor of medicine, is quoted on advice for how parents can start preparing their children for a return to pre-pandemic routines. “It would be great to go to your school’s playground,” said Groff. “Get together with other kids, especially if your child has been pretty isolated over this past year.”

Read article – Research by Joseph Anderson, associate professor of medicine, is featured in an article on testing for colon cancer. “The implication of this is that you could use these tests to potentially make colonoscopy more efficient, this is something for future investigation,” Anderson said.

Read article – Steven D. Leach, the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Professor and director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is quoted in an article about his research team’s work developing the first epigenetic precision medicine approach to pancreatic cancer. Epigenetic therapy reactivates regulatory genes to make the tumors responsive to chemotherapy. “We currently appear to be at the start of a new era in which epigenetic reprogramming will become increasingly relied upon to optimize therapeutic effectiveness in multiple tumor types,” said Leach.

Read article – Anne Hoen, associate professor of epidemiology, is featured in an article reporting on the post-pandemic needs of families with high-risk children who are grappling with the loss of the flexibility, support, and remote-access options that workplaces and schools provided at the height of the pandemic. “Covid kind of forced all of these accommodations in our society to be implemented because they were needed by everybody,” said Hoen. “What people are saying is — and what I’m feeling, to some extent — is that’s all going to go away now.”

Read article – Michael Calderwood, associate professor of medicine, joined Morning Edition to discuss the status of the COVID-19 pandemic and the outlook for the summer. “The vaccines work. And so when people are vaccinated, they are protected, they are not falling ill, they’re not transmitting to others. They’re not being hospitalized and they’re not dying,” Calderwood said.

Read article – A commentary co-authored by Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine, calls on expanding COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity to end the pandemic. The co-authors state that, “Expanding capacity is essential to achieve sufficient vaccine coverage to stop global transmission and mutation of SARS-CoV-2.” In their conclusion, they add that, “Manufacturing networks for emergency-use vaccines need to be as responsive and scalable as the diseases they seek to contain.”