Read article – Cites research by Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, in an article about how Vermont still doesn’t have recreational or drinking water standards for cyanotoxins.

Read article – A pick-up of a 2017 opinion piece by Ruth Craig, emeritus professor of pharmacology and toxicology, about the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed roughly 40 million people and was unusual in that it killed many healthy 20- to 40-year-olds, including millions of World War I soldiers.

Read article – An interview with Alison Kapadia, assistant professor of medicine, who recently started working as site director for the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Emergency Department.

Read article – An opinion piece by Carrie Colla, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, professor of community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which they reflect on what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has accomplished so far—and what it hasn’t. “The ACA laid the foundation for fundamental health-care reform and expanded coverage to many previously uninsured. Now it is time to continue reform in a way that makes health care more sustainable not just for a few brief years, but for the long-term,” said Colla and Skinner.

Read article – Quotes Saeed Hassanpour, assistant professor of biomedical data science and epidemiology, about how he and colleagues from Dartmouth have developed a deep learning model to accurately identify cancerous esophagus tissue on microscopy images instead of the high-cost, time-consuming manual annotation process used by pathologists. “Our new approach outperformed the current state-of-the-art approach that requires these detailed annotations for its training,” says Hassanpour. “The result is significant because our method is based solely on tissue-level annotations, unlike existing methods that are based on manually annotated regions.”

Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she shares five reasons that many students choose to take a fifth year to complete in medical school.  (Picked up by Yahoo! Finance.)

Read article – A feature story about a study led by Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and of orthopaedics, that found that new immigrants to the U.S. are less likely to use prescription opioids than native-born Americans.

Read article – Ellen Meara, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Meara’s appointment was announced in late October at the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. “I am incredibly honored to be recognized by the profession in this way and am eager to support (the National Academy of Medicine)’s mission of offering independent advice to improve health for all,” Meara said.

Read article – Quotes Joseph Anderson, associate professor of medicine, and Lynn Butterly, associate professor of medicine, in an article about a new study that found that colonic polyps detected in younger patients did not increase the likelihood of finding advanced adenomas, including colorectal cancer, at follow-up colonoscopy.

Read article – Quotes Karen Fortuna, assistant professor of psychiatry, in an article about how employees trust their coworkers more than their leaders with their mental health issues. “Peer support has consistently been found to reduce mental health distress and promote quality of life,” says Fortuna.