Read article – Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, is featured in a fact-checking article about RSV injections. “In any large randomized clinical trial there will be a certain number of deaths,” Meissner said. “Remember, the important thing is to look at why those deaths occurred.”

Read article – Jay Dunlap, a professor of molecular and systems biology and of biochemistry and cell biology, is featured in an article about a rush of bioluminescent mushrooms carpeting the forest floor in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in northeastern Goa, India. “It looks like the mushroom is making its own light, and it’s quite magical,” Dunlap said.

Read article – Features comments by Peter Wright, a professor of pediatrics and an infectious disease physician, in an article about the development of the first nasal COVID-19 vaccine. “Although unique in the COVID field, the vaccine has precedent in the highly successful prevention of adenovirus respiratory disease in the United States military,” Wright said.

Read article – Peter Wright, a professor of pediatrics and an infectious disease physician, is featured in an article about the announcement that Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine researchers are working to develop a new COVID-19 vaccine that would be administered using a nasal spray. “There’s a lot of scientific data to back up the fact that this is a very effective way of giving a vaccine,” Wright said.

Read article – Students from the Geisel School of Medicine are involved in the development of the first nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine on the market.

Read article – A commentary by John Raser, a clinical assistant professor of community and family medicine, on rural life in Vermont without a car. “Any vision of rural Vermont that is just, affordable, healthy, and sustainable simply must allow more Vermonters the freedom to live our lives well without being dependent on motorized vehicles,” Raser said.

Read article – A profile piece on Will Peterson, MED ’26, who set the record on Vermont’s Long Trail. He completed the trek in four days, 11 hours, and 34 minutes—a day and a half faster than the previous official record. “In New England, if you want to compete with people on a national level on the multi-day scene, there’s really no better place to do it than on the Long Trail,” Peterson said. (Picked up by Yahoo!)

Read article – Features Jacob Borodovsky, a senior research scientist and epidemiologist, in an article about the pros and cons of cannabis as it is legalized for recreational use in Minnesota. “Cannabis is not one drug,” Borodovsky said. “The cannabis plant itself, we’ve identified over 150 cannabinoid compounds that are present in the cannabis plant. THC and CBD are just two of those 150 or more identified compounds.”

Read article – The National Alliance on Mental Illness recently recognized Jeffrey Fetter, assistant professor of psychiatry, as a NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist.

Read article – Cites comments by Louise Davies, professor of surgery and of the Dartmouth Institute, who served as one of the researchers that analyzed the National Cancer Institute’s new oral cancer survival calculator for people recently diagnosed with oral cancer.