Read article – Quotes Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a recent Health Action Network alert that confirmed that infected needles are causing an increase in diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C. “New Hampshire tracks new HIV diagnoses and we are seeing a huge uptick this year in cases that are directly related to drug use,” says Lahey. “It should be a call to action.”

Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, about a new study he led that found that that reduced gravity levels (microgravity) in space can lead to spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS) in some astronauts. (Picked up by Siasat Daily and The Health Site.)

Read article – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Elizabeth Sergison, a PhD candidate at Dartmouth, discusses how she is using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPER) to research breast cancer. CRISPR allows scientists to precisely target and cut any kind of genetic material, including in humans, and has given hope for treating diseases like cancer, muscular dystrophy, and ALS.

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. Haag previously served as the associate vice president of clinical, research, and academic development at the University of Rochester and the University of Rochester Medical Center. (Similar coverage in Seacoast Online, Fosters.com, and the Valley News.)

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about new research that enables scientists to use a blood test to screen for different types of cancers at early stages.”There are a lot of steps in a liquid biopsy and much potential for things to go awry,” says Welch.

Read article – Quotes Brendan Reilly, honorary professor and instructor of medicine, in an article about how Americans with depression, bipolar disorder or other serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years younger than those without mental illness—a disparity larger than for race, ethnicity, geography or socioeconomic status. Reilly comments on the treatment of his brother, where countless physicians, hospitals, and rehab facilities missed the spinal cord damage that left him quadriplegic—instead variously ascribing his inability to move to his mental illness, his medications or his will.

Read article – Quotes Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, about the FDA’s announcement of approval of Aimovig for the preventive treatment of migraine in adults.

Read article – Quotes Douglas Robertson, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about new guidelines released by the American Cancer Society that state that people should begin screening for colorectal cancer at age 45. “Screening is always a trade-off with benefit and harm,” says Robertson. “The trade-off is that as you go to younger and younger age groups, the absolute risk for getting or dying from cancer is lower, so more and more people would need to be screened to find the one case of colorectal cancer hiding in these younger age groups.”

Read article – Quotes Juliette Madan, MD, MS, an associate professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at Geisel and clinical director of the Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth. Madan gave the keynote address at this year’s symposium, held May 23rd at Dartmouth’s Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, covering both her own research, which focuses on microbe-human interactions beginning in infancy, and her path in science, medicine, and research. More than160 undergraduates showcased over 120 projects from 12 different disciplines at the event, which is named for the late chemistry professor and Women in Science Project co-founder Karen E. Wetterhahn.

Read article – A conversation with Lee Witters, MD, the Eugene W. Leonard 1921 Professor of Medicine, and professor of medical education and of biochemistry and cell biology at Geisel, about how his distinguished career as a physician, researcher, and educator has evolved. Witters currently teaches three popular courses to Dartmouth undergraduate students in the Biology Department, as well as endocrine physiology classes to Geisel medical students. He also serves as faculty advisor for the Nathan Smith Society, and oversees the Teaching Science Fellows Program at the college.