Health Imaging – Cites research conducted by Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Frank Drescher, assistant professor of medicine, about how an increasing number of emergency department patients are being given computed tomography (CT) scans—even those patients who are unlikely to benefit and are most likely to experience harm from the scan.

Popular Science – Article quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, who is leading a team deep into the Arctic to test whether exposure to nature through virtual reality can help improve mood and stress levels.

Yahoo News via Every Day Health – Quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, about how exposure therapy works for many conditions.

New Hampshire Union Leader – Quotes Seddon Savage, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and a member of the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Recovery, about how doctors at specialty pain clinics usually concentrate on treatments and procedures, while nurse practitioners and physician assistants handle medications and prescriptions. “Prescribing opioids, particularly prescribing them well, is very time-consuming,” says Savage. “I think everyone needs more training.”

Valley News – Paula Schnurr, research professor of psychiatry and executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, received the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Lifetime Achievement Award last month at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans, La.

Health – Quotes James Stahl, associate professor of medicine, about a recent study showing that mind-body interventions offer a way for patients to engage in their own treatment, thus reducing doctors visits and nipping problems in the bud.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Quotes Scott Wallace, visiting professor of community and family medicine, about how employees who regularly engage in “presenteeism,” or going to work while ill, is more costly than absenteeism and is detrimental to employees and employers alike. “Unhealthy workers are unproductive workers—and they’re expensive,” says Wallace. “The impact on employees is tremendous when they show up at work sick. The stress makes them sicker, and their performance level at work is in the gutter.”

Reuters – Quotes Elisabeth Erekson, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how after menopause more than half of women have vulvovaginal symptoms and most do not get the standard treatments necessary.

Valley News via St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Continued coverage of comments by David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how Dartmouth researchers recently found that NICU admissions increased by 23 percent in just five years; and by 2012, over half of all admissions were for normal birth weight infants or those born after 37 weeks gestation.

Valley News – Jeff Cohen, chair and professor of neurology, and Brian Spence ’96, Thayer ’95, associate professor of anesthesiology, and Timothy Scherer, instructor in medicine, were recently elected as new members of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s board of trustees.