New Hampshire Union Leader – The Geisel School of Medicine will add a neurology professorship in the name of Murray Bornstein, Class of 1939, a former adjunct professor at Geisel and multiple sclerosis researcher, for his gift to the school.
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Hospice Care: Limited End-of-Life Care Fails to Take into Account Such Care may Prolong Life
New Hampshire Union Leader – Ira Byock—professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center—is quoted extensively on end-of-life care and the downsides to hospice.
Why Hospitals and Families Still Struggle To Define Death
NPR – Quotes James Bernat, the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience, who says that when a person is declared brain dead, “there is zero brain function.”
Monitor Board of Contributors: Overdosing on urgent care
Concord Monitor– Points to a study led by the Dartmouth Atlas that found pediatric care varies widely by region in terms of types of treatment and medication that children receive.
How Laser Cataract Surgery Has Changed Our Phaco Technique
Cataract & Refractive Surgery – Eric Donnenfeld ’77, Geisel ’80, trustee of the Geisel School of Medicine, authors this opinion piece on the initial “learning curve” associated with femtosecond laser cataract surgery which, Donnenfeld writes, “is relatively new.”
The Unvarying Story of Healthcare Variations
Medpage Today – This story opens by citing founder of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice Jack Wennberg’s research on health care variations.
Evidence Warrants Screening Patients with Endometrial Cancer for Lynch Syndrome
Chemotherapy Advisor – Quotes Professor of Pathology Gregory Tsongalis, director of molecular pathology, and Assistant Professor of Pathology Laura Tafe on research they led on endometrial cancer.