Read article – A feature story about a study led by Scott Shipman, assistant professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found a decline in numbers of medical students from rural backgrounds as the overall number of medical students has been on the rise.

Read article – Quotes Scott Shipman, assistant professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in a feature story about a study he led that found that the number of medical students coming from rural areas has fallen by almost 30% since 2002.

Read article – Quotes Rebecca Emeny, a postdoctoral fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a study she led that identified drugs that increase fracture risk in the elderly.

Read article – Quotes Ellen Meara, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about a study published Tuesday that looked at the past six decades of mortality data, and found that death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease, and dozens of other causes have been rising over the past decade for young and middle-aged adults, driving down overall life expectancy in the United States for three consecutive years. “There’s something more fundamental about how people are feeling at some level—whether it’s economic, whether it’s stress, whether it’s deterioration of family,” said Meara. “People are feeling worse about themselves and their futures, and that’s leading them to do things that are self-destructive and not promoting health.”

Read article – Quotes Ellen Meara, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a new analysis of more than a half-century of federal mortality data published in JAMA that found that the increased death rates among people in midlife extended to all racial and ethnic groups, and to suburbs and cities. The states with the greatest relative increases in death rates among young and middle-aged adults were New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Ohio. “The fact that it’s so expansive and involves so many causes of death—it’s saying that there’s something broader going on in our country,” says Meara. “This no longer limited to middle-aged whites.”

Read article – As a guest on RTE Radio, Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, discusses migraine causes and treatments. (Stewart’s comments are included in the second clip embedded in the article.)

Read article – An opinion piece by Adam Kassam, Geisel ’14, in which he discusses whether a Medicare for All plan is the best way to achieve universal health coverage.

Read article – The Rockefeller Foundation in New York City announced the appointment of Agnes Binagwaho, adjunct professor of pediatrics and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, as one of two new members to its board of trustees.

Read article – Quotes William Torrey, professor of psychiatry and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about healthcare staffing shortages. “There’s a national shortage of psychiatrists,” says Torrey. “Studies show that most counties in the country don’t have enough psychiatrists.”

Read article – Cites the contributions of James Bernat, emeritus professor of neurology, to the development of the field of neuroethics.