Read article – Quotes Daisy Goodman, clinical assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how the Geisel School of Medicine is launching new research looking at the effectiveness of treatment programs for pregnant women struggling with opioid abuse. The study is supported by a $5.3 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a DC-based nonprofit funded through the Affordable Care Act. It will take about four years to complete. “We’re in the middle of a maternal-child public health crisis around opiate use in our region,” says Goodman. “We need answers.”

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how disease-awareness campaigns may seem caring or educational but are often just marketing in disguise.

Read article – Highlights 2016 research led by H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that looked at the relationship between colorectal cancer trends and screening and reported “unambiguous ‘good news'”—the overall incidence of colorectal cancer had dropped by more than 45 percent since its peak in the mid-1980s, and deaths have dropped, too.

Read article – Quotes Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how disease-awareness campaigns may seem caring or educational but are often just marketing in disguise.

Read article – As guests on “The Exchange,” Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, and Jonathan Winter, assistant professor of geography and adjunct assistant professor of earth science, discuss new research that shows that illnesses carried by ticks and mosquitos are on the rise. They discuss why these creatures are carrying more disease, and what you need to know about illnesses such as Lyme, babesiosis, and Zika.

testosterone” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Read article – Quotes Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about advertisements for low testosterone treatments. “Whether the campaign is motivated by a sincere desire to help men or simply by greed, we should recognize it for what it is: a mass, uncontrolled experiment that invites men to expose themselves to the harms of a treatment unlikely to fix problems that may be wholly unrelated to testosterone levels,” say Schwartz and Woloshin.

Read article – A news brief about how Matthew Haag has been appointed vice president for development and alumni relations for the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock, effective September 10.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how a heated debate is redrawing alliances in the tobacco control movement as federal officials wrestle with how to regulate the growing e-cigarette market. (Picked up by The Register-Guard.)

Read article – Cites a study conducted by researchers at Dartmouth that studied patients undergoing five common outpatient procedures and found that opioid prescriptions for post-operative pain varied widely and 70 percent of prescribed pills were never used.

Read article – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, and Jonathan Winter, assistant professor of geography and adjunct assistant professor of earth science, about new research that shows that illnesses carried by ticks and mosquitos are on the rise.