Read article – Research by Robert Klein, a former postdoctoral research fellow, is featured in an article about psychological flexibility. The study supported the psychological flexibility theory and found that people with greater variability in emotional highs and lows were happier and more satisfied across the daily assessments.
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Health Watch: New Center Focuses on AI’s Impact on Future of Health Care (Video) – WCAX
Watch video – Features Saeed Hassanpour, an associate professor of biomedical data science, in a segment about how the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Cancer Center are launching a new Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence. “AI is a tool that if used correctly can improve and augment the care and improve the care for patients,” Hassanpour said. “Makes it more accurate and also more affordable.”
Placebo Responses Have Increased Over 30 Years of Migraine Prevention Trials – Neurology Advisor
Read article – Features a study by Geisel School of Medicine researchers into the response to placebos in migraine prevention trials. “We found a statistically significant increase in the placebo response in preventive migraine trials from 1990 to 2021. The increase was not constant over the years or detectable when the outcome was reported as a dichotomous variable,” the study reports.
Testosterone Is Probably Safe for Your Heart. But It Can’t Stop ‘Manopause’ – NPR
Read article – Features Steven Woloshin, MED ’96, a professor of the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about testosterone safety. “It’s not the fountain of youth,” Woloshin says. “You’re going to feel the effects of aging.” (Picked up by NHPR.)
PFAS Study Links Exposure to Obesity – Concord Monitor via New Hampshire Bulletin
Read article – The New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study–operated out of the Geisel School of Medicine–was one of eight groups that provided data for a national study led by the National Institutes of Health that found prenatal exposure to PFAS is linked to slightly higher body mass index and obesity risk in children. (Picked up by Merrimack, NH Patch.)
DHMC Campus to Host AI Initiative – Valley News
Read article – Quotes Saeed Hassanpour, an associate professor of biomedical data science, and Steven Leach, director of the Dartmouth Cancer Center, in a feature story about how the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Cancer Center are launching a new Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence. “It is a very active domain of research,” said Hassanpour, who is the center’s inaugural director. “There’s a lot of promise.”
Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee (Video) – GeriPal
Watch video – Nadine Carter, an instructor in medicine, is featured in a podcast about diabetes in later life. “According to ADA, 29% of people over 65 have diabetes. Most of that’s Type 2, but more and more are also living longer with Type 1, so these people are aging into their seventies and eighties with Type 1 diabetes, which is wonderful,” Carter said.
NH Moms, Children Among Participants in Study Linking PFAS Exposure to Obesity Risk – New Hampshire Bulletin
Read article – The New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study operated out of the Geisel School of Medicine is featured in an article about a larger study into the effects on BMI when exposed to PFAS prenatally.
Hooray! A Clearer Estimate of Your Risk for Death Is Around the Corner – MedPage Today
Read article – Quotes Steven Woloshin, MED ’96, a professor of the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about a study he co-authored that found that the National Cancer Institute’s Know Your Chances website, which can calculate an individual’s risk for death over the coming years, is about to get more accurate by including smoking history. Woloshin and co-authors, who were involved with the creation of the site, note that the National Cancer Institute is in the process of updating the website using a new model to create charts for current, former, and never smokers.
Dartmouth Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence, Precision Medicine – Health IT Analytics
Read article – Quotes President Philip J. Hanlon ’77; Saeed Hassanpour, CPHAI’s inaugural director and an associate professor of biomedical data science, epidemiology, and computer science; and Jocelyn Chertoff, chair and professor of radiology, in a feature on Dartmouth’s new Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence. “What makes CPHAI unique is its interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to precision health and artificial intelligence, focusing not only on technological advancements but also on ethical and societal implications,” Hassanpour said.