Read article – Features research led by Mary Brunette, associate professor of psychiatry, that found that abstinence-contingent incentives improved smoking cessation outcomes among economically disadvantaged smokers with mental illness receiving tobacco treatment at community mental health centers.

Read article – An opinion piece by Cassie Kosarek, Geisel ’20, in which she shares four soft skills for medical students to cultivate in order to take better care of their patients and themselves as they navigate the complexities, frustrations, and rewards of a career in medicine.

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, in an article about how the Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it was starting a Medicare payment model very similar to the ones it canceled and curtailed last year.  Fisher said the new initiative was encouraging. “The current administration would like to reverse everything associated with the Affordable Care Act and the Obama administration,” says Fisher. “But this week’s announcement shows that there is a bipartisan consensus on the need to change the way we deliver and pay for health care.”

Read article – Quotes James Bernat, the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience and active emeritus professor of neurology and medicine, in an article about how a man in Spain who was declared dead by three doctors was actually still alive, and how there are no universal guidelines for exactly when doctors should pronounce someone dead. “You’re dead when a doctor says you’re dead,” said Bernat in a 2014 interview with Live Science.

Read article – Features research coauthored by Brian Sites, professor of anesthesiology and of orthopaedics, that found that prescription opioid use is associated with greater satisfaction with care among people with musculoskeletal conditions. The findings highlight the need to examine whether satisfaction is actually related to greater health benefits.

Read article – Cites comments by Gilbert Fanciullo, active emeritus professor of anesthesiology, in an article about medical marijuana in New Hampshire and Vermont and how a number of obstacles stand in the way of some who wish to use it, including the conflict between state and federal law.

Read more – Quotes Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about research he led that found that teens who engage with online tobacco ads are more likely to start smoking than their peers who aren’t lured by digital marketing campaigns. “One possible influence of engagement with online tobacco marketing is to make teenagers curious about and wanting to try a tobacco product,” says Soneji.

Read article – Cites comments by Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how decades of public awareness campaigns have convinced patients that cancer screenings are essential.

Read article – Features comments by Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about a new policy in France that requires all children born January 1 or later to receive 11 mandatory vaccines. “We don’t see measles, mumps, rubella, polio so much anymore, so we don’t feel like we’re at risk and therefore the inconvenience, the cost, the very small risk of immunizations can feel like the bigger problem,” says Lahey.

Read article – Quotes James Stahl, associate professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a new study that found that menopausal women who practice yoga may experience more relief from symptoms like night sweats and hot flashes than their peers who don’t do this type of exercise. “All of the mind-body tools, yoga, acupuncture, qi gong, and meditation probably work through multiple mechanisms—through remodeling how the mind-body perceives sensations and signals, how the mind-body responds to those stimuli and finally through helping set or reset the mind-body’s steady state,” says Stahl, who wasn’t involved in the study.