Read article – Quotes Margaret Karagas, the James W. Squires Professor and chair of epidemiology, and professor of community and family medicine; and Carolyn Murray, assistant professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; in an article about a new report conducted by the consumer-advocacy organization Consumer Reports that tested 45 fruit juices, including apple, grape and juice blends, and found that 21 of them had “concerning levels” of cadmium, arsenic, and/or lead.

Read article – Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of community and family medicine, in an article about the potential of AI to improve communications in healthcare settings. “Many clinicians’ communications skills aren’t formerly assessed—either during school or in early practice. At the same time, there is a lot of evidence that clinicians often struggle when communicating with their patients,” says Elwyn. “It’s hard to improve on something when you’re not being given any feedback and don’t know how you’re doing.”

Read article – Quotes Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how the FDA recently held a public hearing to discuss the vaping epidemic among teens. “Clinicians urgently require new solutions to safely and effectively help stop [adolescents] using these and all tobacco products for good,” says Tanski. “There is unfortunately virtually no data on how to treat an adolescent with e-cigarette dependence.”

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how the Food and Drug Administration is considering the role of drug therapies to get kids to quit vapes and other nicotine products, with medical organizations and vaping groups weighing in during a public hearing Friday on how to address rising levels of e-cigarette use among youth. (Picked up by WKTV.)

Read article – Quotes Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how the Food and Drug Administration is considering the role of drug therapies to get kids to quit vapes and other nicotine products, with medical organizations and vaping groups weighing in during a public hearing Friday on how to address rising levels of e-cigarette use among youth. “These products deliver very high levels of nicotine, meaning that even brief experimentation is likely to put adolescents at risk for long-term dependence,” Tanski, former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, told the FDA. (Picked up by WHNT, WSLS, WREG, KTLA, and many more.)

Read article – An article about how the World Health Organization (WHO) named vaccine hesitancy one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019 and quotes Feng Fu, assistant professor of mathematics and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical data science. “Once people question the safety or effectiveness of a vaccine, it can be very difficult to get them to move beyond those negative associations,” says Fu, about research he led that explained that hysteresis may describe persistent vaccine skepticism. “Hysteresis is a powerful force that is difficult to break at a societal level.”

Read article – Continued coverage of a new study that found that television advertising in the U.S. for candy, fast food, sugary drinks, and other unhealthy treats continues to target mostly black and Hispanic youth; quotes Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics.

Read article – An opinion piece by Ford von Reyn, professor of medicine, in which he discusses his experience living in the Finnish capital, Helinski, and shares an itinerary with travelers who plan on visiting Finland—a country that was ranked as the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report.

Read article – Quotes Shawn Ralston, associate professor of pediatrics, in a feature story about a study he coauthored that found that many of the nearly three million kids under age two who went to an emergency room for bronchiolitis between 2007 and 2015 were prescribed unnecessary antibiotics. (Picked up by Yahoo! News.)

Read article – Quotes Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, in an article about a new study that found that television advertising in the U.S. for candy, fast food, sugary drinks, and other unhealthy treats continues to target mostly black and Hispanic youth. “Unfortunately, the foods and drinks most heavily targeted to children of color are high in sugar, salt and/or fat like sugary drinks, candy, and fast food,” says Emond, who was not involved in the study. “And these foods should not be consumed on a regular basis.” (Picked up by The Gazette, Ary News, WTVB, and CompuServe News.)