Read article – Features research led by Balint Kacsoh, a student at Geisel’s Bosco Lab, that found that fruit flies can learn the dialects of other fly species after a period of living together. “We find flies can communicate with one another about an anticipated danger, which is suggestive of a fly ‘language’,” says Kacsoh. “Living together enables the flies to learn new dialects composed of different visual and scent cues.”

Read article – Features an interview with Louise Davies, associate professor of surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses overdiagnosis and overtreatment of subclinical thyroid cancers.

Read article – Quotes Robert Brady, assistant professor of psychiatry, in an article about how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and how it has become one of the most popular mental health therapies. “CBT is a success story in psychotherapy—I would say more so than any other type of intervention both in terms of the practical application of it and in terms of its research,” says Brady.

Read article – Alfredo Tirado-Ramos has joined the Dartmouth community to lead biomedical and translational informatics programs for the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system. Tirado-Ramos will serve as director of biomedical informatics at Synergy Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and of the Biomedical Data Science Research Software Laboratory. In addition, he will be an associate professor in the department of biomedical data science at Geisel and scientific director of biomedical informatics for Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

Read article – Continued coverage of a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine that found that mothers who vape or wear nicotine patches during pregnancy increase their baby’s risk of crib death, or sudden infant death syndrome—the unexpected death of an apparently healthy child under the age of 12 months, typically during sleep. (Similar coverage in TheJournal.ie.)

Read article – Features a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine that found that mothers who vape or wear nicotine patches during pregnancy increase their baby’s risk of crib death, or sudden infant death syndrome—the unexpected death of an apparently healthy child under the age of 12 months, typically during sleep. (Similar coverage in HealthDay News, U.S. News & World Report, The Sun, and Independent.ie.)

Read article – Features a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine that found that mothers who vape or wear nicotine patches during pregnancy increase their baby’s risk of cot death, or sudden infant death syndrome—the unexpected death of an apparently healthy child under the age of 12 months, typically during sleep. (Similar coverage in PerthNow, Montreal Gazette, and The Irish Times.)

Read article – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Kevin Curtis, associate professor of medicine, discusses the state of telemedicine in New Hampshire. (The segment aired live at 9 a.m., and will rebroadcast again at 7 p.m.)

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about Geisinger Health System’s new DNA screening program for patients. The article quotes comments by Welch previously published by NPR, where he acknowledges that some mutations may have actionable treatments, but others may not. “What are we really going to do differently for these patients?” asks Welch. “We should all be concerned about heart disease. We should all exercise; we should eat real food.”

Read article – Quotes Timothy Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how some patients are using smartphones to record their office visits and other interactions with their doctors. Lahey weighs in on what doctors think of being taped. “It’s not yet part of most doctors’ routine practice,” says Lahey. “So it’s new and it makes some doctors go, ‘Hmm.'”