Read article – Quotes Joy Gabrielli, postdoctoral research fellow, about a study she led that found that the TECH parenting style, an acronym for Talk, Educate, Co-view, and House Rules, could help families manage screen time at home. “We believe that better home media management will lead to lower youth risk for engagement in health risk behaviors such as substance abuse or risky sexual behaviors later in development,” says Gabrielli. (Picked up by KFGO.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Steven Fiering, professor of microbiology and immunology and of genetics, about a new study that found that flight attendants get certain cancers more than the general population. Fiering, who was not involved in the study but conducts research on flight attendants, said he found the higher rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer among women in the study “striking”—”especially to see a close to four-fold increase in non-melanoma skin cancer; that is substantial,” says Fiering. (Picked up by Muscat Daily.)

Read article – Quotes Louise Davies, associate professor of surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who coauthored an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine advocated for a standard definition of “overdiagnosis” regarding cancer screenings, arguing poor understanding of the term is a threat that exposes patients to unnecessary treatments. Davies and her colleagues define overdiagnosis as “the detection of a (histologically confirmed) cancer through screening that would not otherwise have been diagnosed in a person’s lifetime had screening not been done.”

Read article – A blog post by Julie Bynum, adjunct professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses the landscape around care delivery and care management for patients with complex needs. “It’s a promising time for people with high needs, whose struggle with complex care is increasingly being addressed using evidence-based models that have incentives in place for their wide-scale dissemination,” says Bynum. “Strategies for assessing quality that incorporates social care services and providers, attend to goal-aligned care plans, and consider innovative approaches to measure coordination or the lack thereof, will be important for marking the path toward better care.” (Similar coverage in Healthcare Informatics.)

Read article – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses how loneliness can have a powerful impact on our mental, physical, and social wellbeing. (The segment aired live at 9 a.m. and will rebroadcast at 7 p.m.)

Read article – MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), recently named trauma and general surgeon James Feeney, Geisel ’00, as director of trauma services.

Read article – Quotes Steven Fiering, professor of microbiology and immunology and of genetics, about a new study that found that flight attendants get certain cancers more than the general population. Fiering, who was not involved in the study but conducts research on flight attendants, said he found the higher rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer among women in the study “striking”—”especially to see a close to four-fold increase in non-melanoma skin cancer; that is substantial,” says Fiering.

Read article – Cites data compiled by researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice that recently analyzed the benefits of digital recordings of healthcare visits.

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fisher, director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the recent announcement that Atul Gawande, the renowned Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon, author, and New Yorker writer, as the CEO of the yet-to-be-named healthcare company being created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

Read article – A news brief about how the Geisel School of Medicine is getting $5.3 million to study medication-assisted treatment for pregnant women with opioid use disorders. The team will compare whether integrated care models, where women receive both maternity care and addiction treatment in the same practice, are more effective than providing such treatment in different locations. (Picked up by The New York Times, ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, Tampa Bay Times, NBC Boston, NECN, and many more.)