Read article – Erin Miers, an instructor in psychiatry, is featured in an article about toxic friendships. “Toxic relationships put our bodies into high-stress mode,” Miers said. “The stress of navigating unpredictable or negative situations creates an atmosphere of dread and discomfort.”

Read article – Features comments by Martin Gross, an assistant professor of surgery, from an expert panel discussion on the effects of erectile dysfunction. “There really is a significant lack in sexual medicine research of cost information, care information, outcomes information in that regard,” Gross said.

Read article – Steven Woloshin, the co-director of the Center for Medicine and Media at the Dartmouth Institute, is cited in an article about timing mammogram screenings. Woloshin suggests that increases in breast cancer rates in young women may reflect the increased rates of screenings.

Read article – Kristine Karlson, Dartmouth athletics’ team physician and an associate professor of community and family medicine, is quoted in an article about athletic trainers. “The coach’s motivation is to win the game, and if this is their best player, they’re going to say, ‘You got your bell rung. Get back out there,’” Karlson said. “There’s the role for the athletic trainer, to say, ‘That person’s not behaving correctly. I need to pull them and declare them ineligible for the remainder of the contest.’”

Read article – Michael Calderwood, an associate professor of medicine, is featured in an article about the use of antibiotics after an incision is closed. “Our hope is that hospitals and health care teams will review the updated guidelines for support of current prevention practices and adoption of new standards targeted at our high reliability goal of zero harm,” Calderwood said.

Read article – Lucy Skinner, MED ’21, ’23, is featured in an article about her research that finds female doctors get paid significantly less over the course of their careers if they’re married and have children compared to male doctors who have children. “Having access to day cares at hospital systems, as well as having equal maternity and paternity leave, would normalize both men and women taking time off to take care of children,” Skinner said. (Picked up by WLRN, NPR Illinois, and others.)

Read article – Quotes Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, in an article about automated therapy. “The vast majority of the app marketplace has not tested its product,” Jacobson said.

Read article – Information from the Geisel School of Medicine is noted in an article about skin cancer myths. It notes that Black patients are more than three times as likely to be diagnosed with melanoma at a late stage than white patients.

Read article – Laura Beidler, a research project coordinator at the Dartmouth Institute, is quoted in an article about a potential link between breast density and cancer rates. “When compared to other known and perhaps more well-known breast cancer risks, women did not perceive breast density as significant of a risk,” Beidler said.

Read article – Features comments by Alan Budney, a professor of psychiatry and biomedical data science, in an article about marijuana use. “We ran some studies and it turned out cannabis withdrawal looks like tobacco withdrawal, and a good percentage of these people who use a lot of cannabis end up with the same withdrawal symptoms,” Budney said.