Huffington Post – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on Apple’s new open-platform medical research tool ResearchKit.
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Is It Low-T? No It’s Big Pharma Peddling a Nonexistent Disease
Valley News via Washington Post – Continued coverage of an opinion piece by Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on how the Food and Drug Administration is pushing back against the over-prescribing of testosterone.
Doctors Don’t Actually Know How Often You Should See Them
Washington Post – Article references research conducted at Dartmouth, which suggests that the timing of follow-up visits to a doctor varies, and have tended to fall under the art, rather than the science, of medicine. The study found that patients tend to have more visits per year if they are sicker, but also if they live in an area with more doctors or with doctors who tend to ask patients to come in more often, even when adjusting for factors such as health status.
The Heroin Crisis: New Approaches to Addiction Prevention
NHPR – As a guest on “The Exchange,” Seddon Savage ’80, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology, discusses the heroin epidemic in the Granite State with a focus on prevention.
Sometimes Data Can Get You Only So Far
VT Digger – In this opinion piece, Paul Manganiello, emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology and current student at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, discusses his internship experience working with a gun safety advocacy group in Vermont.
Rick Warren & Joni Eareckson Tada Weigh in on California’s Newest Assisted Suicide Bill
Christian Examiner – Quotes Ira Byock, emeritus professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, from an article in the Los Angeles Times on physician-assisted suicide and how writing prescriptions for lethal medications may put already vulnerable people at risk.
MTV generation faces a rude retirement wake-up call
MSN Money (via Main Street) – References the recent study on the state of Social Security by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, and Harvard researchers, which forecasts that Social Security funds will be depleted by 2033. The article states that Generation X, whose ages range from 35 – 50 years old, may not benefit from the program.
At the Hospitals: Geisel Professor Honored
Valley News – Seddon Savage, associate professor of anesthesiology at Geisel and chairwoman of the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission Task Force on Opioids, has received the American Pain Society’s distinguished service award.
Democrats Shouldn’t Endorse Suicide
Politico – An article by Ira Byock, emeritus professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, on the embrace of physician-assisted suicide by progressives as their political response to needless suffering of seriously ill people. Byock comments on the current state of the American hospice industry, and how two-thirds of America’s hospices now belong to for-profit companies, many traded on Wall Street.
Sell a disease to sell a drug
Washington Post – An opinion piece by Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on how the Food and Drug Administration is pushing back against the over-prescribing of testosterone.
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