Read article – Lucy Skinner, MED ’21, MED ’23, is featured in an article about the pay discrepancy between female and male physicians. “On average, female physicians with children earn more than $3 million less than their male counterparts throughout their careers,” Skinner said.

Read article – Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, is quoted in an article about COVID-19 immunity. “It isn’t easy to look at T cells and ask if we have sufficient numbers of them to protect,” he said.

Read article – Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, is featured in an article about the extent of Americans’ immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. “This virus is like the wind—you can’t stop the wind,” Meissner said. “It’s going to continue to mutate and become more infectious. But as long as we can protect against severe disease at this stage of the pandemic, I can live with that.”

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Brad Duchaine, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Marie-luise Kieseler, Guarini ’22, in an article about long COVID symptoms and prosopagnosia, more commonly known as face blindness. (Picked up by U.S. News & World Report and others.)

Read article – A study by Natalie Riblet, an assistant professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute, and Bradley V. Watts, an associate professor of psychiatry, is featured in an article about smoking as a predictor of suicide and overdose. “The results reiterate the critical need to promote smoking cessation as a strategy to reduce morbidity and death in the population,” Riblet and Watts said.

Read article – J. Aaron Barnes, MED ’16 and Guarini ’20, writes a piece reflecting on his vascular surgery training. “I am not sure it is possible to truly appreciate the entirety of training when you are in the midst of it, but I wish I had known as a trainee that I would eventually understand the method to the madness,” Barnes writes.

Read article – Megan Romano, an assistant professor of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about the effects of forever chemicals on the body. “You have the heat and the oil that’s going from the packaging into the popcorn,” Romano said of microwave popcorn in a bag. (Romano’s comments appear in the expandable question blocks.)

Read article – A celebration of the life of Hilda Weyl Sokol, a former professor emeritus of physiology and neurobiology.

Read article – Features Steven Woloshin, MED ’96, a professor of the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about his co-authored research into the effectiveness of advertised drugs compared to others on the market. “You can’t assume that drugs work or are really safe, just because they are advertised,” Woloshin said.

Read article – Marcus Shaker, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, is featured in an article about over-the-counter medication for asthma. “Using as-needed budesonide-formoterol led to outcomes that are almost as good as taking a maintenance budesonide dose every day,” Shaker said.