Read article – Features comments by Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in the intro to a recent The BMJ Podcast. Includes a discussion about the Drug Facts Box that he and Lisa Schwartz created to improve communication of prescription drug information.

Read article – Features research conducted by scientists at Dartmouth that found that accountable care organizations, designed to reduce overhead and improve health outcomes by coordinating care, may not be achieving either goal when it comes to patients with complex needs. (Similar coverage in an additional article published in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.)

Read article – A feature story about Malinda Scherpa, MED ’05, and her husband Tom, who for the past four years have participated in the Fresh Air Fund Friendly Towns Program, which matches kids in the city with families in the country.

Read article – Quotes PhD student Julianna “Lita” Bozler in a feature story about a study she co-authored that examined how environmental stressors put on fruit flies can influence the phenotypes of their offspring.

Read article – Quotes Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, in an article that examines the treatment of cluster headaches.

Read article – Cites a study on accountable care organizations (ACOs) conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine, which found that although the number of ACOs had grown fivefold from 2012-2018, the proportion of ACOs taking on downside risk remained relatively stable, increasing from 28 percent in 2012 to 33 percent in 2018.

Read article – Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, is featured in a segment about how the summer is an even more difficult time of year for those who suffer from frequent migraines. “While the underlying causes of migraine are not yet known, they are believed to be related to a combination of genetic and environmental factors,” says Tepper. “There are a variety of symptoms–typically including unilateral pulsating headaches, nausea, and sensitivity to light and sound. Some people may experience only a few migraine days per month, while others may be affected by many more migraine days.”

Read article – Quotes Adrienne Faerber, lecturer in The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how a federal court judge ruled in favor of blocking the Trump administration’s regulation to require drug prices to appear in televised advertisements.

Read article – Quotes Adrienne Faerber, lecturer in The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how a federal court judge ruled in favor of blocking the Trump administration’s regulation to require drug prices to appear in televised advertisements. “I hope that this regulation moves quickly through the legal challenges process and can get implemented because we need more transparency in drug prices in our system,” says Faerber.

Read article – A feature story on new research co-authored by PhD students Julianna “Lita” Bozler and Balint Kacsoh that suggests the genetic effects of environmental stressors experienced by parents can be inherited across generations quotes Bozler and Giovanni Bosco, the Oscar M. Cohn ’34 Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology and professor of molecular and systems biology. “While neuronally encoded behavior isn’t thought to be inherited across generations, we wanted to test the possibility that environmentally triggered modifications could allow ‘memory’ of parental experiences to be inherited,” says Bozler.