Read article – An article about a new study suggesting three in four food advertisements and half of drink promotions during major U.S. sports programs peddle high-calorie, sugary products quotes Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and assistant professor of pediatrics, who was not involved in the study. “Children who view advertisements for highly palatable foods such as chips or candy as part of TV shows or within video games will eat more snack foods, even if they already had a meal,” said Emond.

Read article – An opinion piece by Roshini Pinto-Powell, associate professor of medicine and associate professor of medical education, on the gender pay gap in the medical field. (Pinto-Powell is participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project).

Read article – An article about the opioid epidemic quotes Lisa Marsch, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. “It touches all sorts of people and socio-economic strata, but it has continued to be predominantly a white, non-hispanic phenomenon,” said Marsch. Picked up by SAMAA and Inquirer.net.

Read article – An article on how New Hampshire is fighting the opioid crisis quotes Peter A. Mason, assistant professor of community and family medicine. “We are working at Geisel really to develop a curriculum that goes through four years at the medical school and even into graduate training after that and residency, where they understand addiction is a brain disease. Where they understand people have to be treated with respect and dignity,” said Mason.

Read article – An article about the state’s response to the opioid epidemic mentions the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine is seeking to incorporate medication-assisted treatment into the four-year curriculum for all students, according to Matthew Houde, vice president of government relations at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Read article – An article about a new study that finds bacteria have so-called “memories” that are inherited by their progeny quotes study collaborator George O’Toole, professor of microbiology and immunology. These concepts were initially described in the 1930s, but it took nearly 90 years for scientists to “understand how they work hand-in-hand to help drive early biofilm formation,” said O’Toole. Similar coverage in ScienceBlog.com and Laboratory Equipment.

Read article – An article about the Manchester Fire Department’s “Safe Station,” program, which allows anyone with a drug or alcohol problem to stop by anytime and be welcomed with kindness and without judgment, quotes Lisa Marsch, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Safe Station is “a beautiful example of a community response to a crisis,” says Marsch. Picked up by Borneo Bulletin.

Read article – An interview with Charles Brenner, chief scientific advisor at ChromaDex, mentions that in 2004, while on faculty at Dartmouth College, Brenner made the foundational discovery that nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a milk-derived natural product and vitamin precursor of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).

Read article – Quotes Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University that found that Facebook’s ban on tobacco advertising hasn’t stopped tobacco and e-cigarette companies from using the platform to promote their products. “Lots of these social networking sites have this duality where they publicly proclaim to not have tobacco advertising and marketing, and have very easily searchable content that has plenty of branded tobacco advertising,” says Soneji, who wasn’t involved in the study.

Read article – An opinion piece by Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which he discusses how laws make it harder for patients with intellectual disabilities to avoid unwanted care. “In hospitals across the country, people with disabilities have been subject to all manner of substandard care, including inappropriately premature discontinuation of end-of-life care. This has improved over the past few decades, but a new systematic review shows people with intellectual disabilities still have difficulty accessing high quality end-of-life care, including palliative care specialists,” says Lahey.