The New York Times – Cites research by Professor of Medicine H. Gilbert Welch and Honor Passow, curriculum designer and learning specialist at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that if a 50-year-old woman is screened annually for a decade, she has a 50 percent chance of receiving a false-positive diagnosis somewhere along the way.
In the News
Dartmouth Doctor Aids in Ebola Crisis
Valley News – Features Associate Professor of Medicine Elizabeth Talbot, who is stationed in Liberia with a humanitarian agency at the newly established “Ebola University,” working to help control the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Lung Cancer Screening Can Be Cost Effective, Study Reports
U.S. News and World Report via HealthDay News – Discusses a study by Professor of Radiology William Black, which concluded that lung cancer screenings performed by skilled professionals on a very specific set of long-time smokers, could cost less for each year of quality life gained than the generally accepted $100,000-per-year threshold for cost effectiveness.
An Epidemic of Thyroid Cancer?
The New York Times – An opinion piece by Professor of Medicine Gilbert Welch, which discusses the rising number of diagnoses for thyroid cancer in South Korea, and the dangers of what he calls an “epidemic of diagnosis.”
Study Points to Overdiagnosis of Thyroid Cancer
The New York Times – Cites research conducted by Professor of Medicine Gilbert Welch, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which looked at the soaring cases of thyroid cancers in South Korea as screening became more popular.
Should Terminally Ill Patients Have a Right to Die?
U.S. News and World Report – Emeritus Professor of Medicine Ira Byock is quoted on the danger that physician-assisted suicide poses for people with mental illnesses.
Emotion Is Not the Best Medicine, Ebola Case Further Shows
The New York Times – Points to research by Professor of Medicine H. Gilbert Welch published last year in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, which looked at the benefits and risks of screening tests, and suggested that emotions strongly influence people’s desire to be screened for various cancers.
Spinal Surgery Varies by Region in U.S. Study
HealthDay via U.S. News and World Report – Quotes Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute and of Orthopaedic Surgery Brook Martin on the percentage of Americans who experience back pain, and cites research conducted by the Dartmouth Atlas Project on the varying rates of spinal fusion throughout the United States.
Bringing Legal Suboxone to Rural Corners of a Region in Crisis
NewsWorks – Features Jeffrey Deflavio Geisel ’14, who is trying to bring affordable addiction treatment to clients in hard-to-reach rural areas of New England.
Legally High
The New York Times – This article discusses marijuana usage among young adults, and quotes Alan Budney on the ways that smoking may affect students’ academic performance.