Prevention – Article cites research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine, which suggests that milk contains testosterone-like hormones, which may stimulate oil glands in the skin and contribute to breakouts.
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Pregnancy and Opioids: How Hospitals Handle Substance Abuse and Prenatal Care
NHPR – Sarah Akerman, assistant professor of psychiatry, is a guest on NHPR’s “Weekend Edition” for an ongoing series on the opioid crisis in New Hampshire called “Dangerous Ends” to discuss the Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School Gets $5M Grant for Study of Human Motivation
NHPR – Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has received a $5 million Common Fund grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project they hope will lead to better health outcomes and decreased medical costs. The grant will fund an investigation into the psychological and biological factors that motivate individuals to improve their health. (Similar coverage in the Valley News.)
Doctors to FDA: Don’t Call Them ‘Breakthrough’ Drugs
Livescience – Cites a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University, which found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should avoid using words like “breakthrough” and “promising” to describe new drugs when making announcements aimed at the public because it does not necessarily mean that a drug is effective or that it will help patients live longer.
Patient-Reported Data Can Help People Make Better Health Care Choices
Harvard Business Review – An opinion piece co-authored by William Weeks, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; and James Weinstein, professor of orthopaedics, community and family medicine, and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the value of the development of tools that will allow patients to self-report outcomes data in real time to help other patients anticipate their own course of treatment.
Facebook’s Restrictions on User Data Cast a Long Shadow
The Wall Street Journal – Cites research by Benjamin Crosier, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychiatry, in an article about how Facebook’s restrictions on its user data are rippling through academia, business and presidential politics. Crosier was building an app to look for links between social-media activity and drug addiction, and Facebook’s restrictions on data halted his research. Crosier is petitioning the company to get some of that data back and hopes to salvage his project by asking Facebook for access to eight types of data, including photos in which a user is tagged. He hopes to reconstruct a person’s friend network by seeing who they socialize with through their photos. Dr. Crosier says he won’t be able to see the images themselves, just that a user was tagged and by whom.
Joseph Smith Miracle Scholarship
Deseret News – Quotes Interim Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Duane Compton in continued coverage of the creation of a $25,000 scholarship by the Descendants of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, to honor the pioneering surgery that Dartmouth’s Dr. Nathan Smith performed on Joseph Smith two centuries ago.
Can Surfing Reprogram the Veteran’s Brain?
Outside – Quotes Paula Schnurr, professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine and executive director of the Veterans Affairs National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in an article discussing how the physicality and flow of surfing can give victims of PTSD some relief, and how PTSD has been linked to changes in the neurocircuitry and neurotransmitters that balance the retrieval of memories. “People have profound changes in how they think of themselves in the world,” says Schnurr.
Diet Detective: How Much Do You Need to Drink and All Your Other ‘Water’ Questions Answered
Ames Tribune – Continued coverage of research by Heinz Valtin, professor of physiology and neurobiology emeritus, which looked at sources of daily hydration and the theory of drinking eight glasses of water a day.
Expert Discusses How to Screen, Diagnose and Treat ADHD in Preschool-Aged Children (Video)
Healio – Features video footage of Craig Donnelly, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, who discusses current evidence concerning attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in young children, as well as the different psycho-social and pharmacological approaches for treatment.