Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she shares three things applicants should know if they’ve been placed on a medical school waitlist.

Read article – An article about how minimal use of sedatives such as opiates minimizes risks during endoscopy in patients who are pregnant, making it relatively safe, mentions that Joseph Anderson, associate professor of medicine, provided an outline of safe versus unsafe sedative options and recent data on increased risk from overexposure at the recent American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Read article – A feature story on a culinary medicine program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Weight and Wellness Center mentions that the leader of the program, Auden McClure, MED ’99, previously attended what was then known as Dartmouth Medical School and trained as a chef in Paris.

Read article – An article mentions that Design Mentor CEO Doug Vincent in part credits Ryan Halter, adjunct assistant professor of surgery and an assistant professor of engineering at Thayer, and Joseph DeSimone, assistant professor of surgery, in helping his company gain credibility for VentriFlo True Pulse Pump, an innovative pump that pulsates blood through the human body.

Read article – Quotes James Sargent, the Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology and professor of pediatrics, biomedical data science, and community and family medicine; and Anna Prescott, Guarini ’16, a senior evaluation and research analyst in career and education outreach at the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation; about research they coauthored (with Jay Hull, the Dartmouth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and associate dean of faculty for the social sciences) that found that violent video game play was linked to increases in physical aggression over time among teenagers.

Read article – An article about a new report that concludes that thousands of children in foster care who are taking psychotropic medications are not receiving adequate treatment safeguards, quotes Erin Barnett, an assistant professor of psychiatry and of The Dartmouth Institute. “A good proportion of kids in foster care who take medication are getting two, or three, or more,” says Barnett, who wasn’t involved in the report. “There are very few studies that have looked at the effects and side effects of prescribing two or more psychiatric medications in kids. But we’re doing it all the time—and with every new med, we’re adding more risk.”

Read article – Quotes Douglas Robertson, professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about a new study that found that academic gastroenterologists detected significantly more sessile serrated adenomas and serrated polyps in the proximal colon than other clinicians. Robertson, who was not involved in the study, said the research “raises some interesting ideas related to the frequency of proximal polyp detection across different centers.”

Read article – Quotes Surachai Supattapone, professor of biochemistry and of medicine, in a segment about Chronic Wasting Disease—a prion disease that affects deer, elk, moose, and reindeer, and produces lesions in the brain, triggering disorientation, emaciation, and certain death. “We only know a fraction of what there is to know about prions. We’re always catching up,” says Supattapone.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Alison Volpe Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics, medical education, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about a new study that found that one of the benefits of direct breastfeeding included slower weight gain and lower BMI for babies. Researchers say the study reinforces benefits of breast milk, and they’re sending a message to policymakers about parental leave and support for breastfeeding.

Read article – Highlights Jenn Alford-Teaster, geospatial research project director in the department of biomedical data science, who is challenging state Sen. Ruth Ward, R-Stoddard, for the Sunapee-area senate seat. Alford-Teaster says she’s running to protect the state’s public schools and expand access to healthcare.