While the popular press debates the merits of various fad diets, former Dartmouth-Hitchcock resident Dr. Jeanne Clark is asking hard questions about the science behind achieving and maintaining long-term weight loss.
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YouTube as Peer Support for Severe Mental Illness
People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder use a popular social media website like YouTube to provide and receive naturally occurring peer support, Dartmouth researchers report in the journal PLOS ONE.
Geisel Alumnus W. Hardy Hendren, MD, to Give Lecture on the Father of Scientific Surgery
On Tuesday, Nov. 14, the Office of Alumni Relations at the Geisel School of Medicine will host W. Hardy Hendren, MD (D’47, Med’50), for a special lecture titled “Dr. John Hunter – The Father of Scientific Surgery.”
Donna Ambrosino ’77: Patient Driven
“Ever since graduating from medical school, I’ve tried to live by the following principle: ‘It’s all about the patient,’” says Geisel alum Donna Ambrosino, MD.
Dartmouth Researchers Receive Awards from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Geisel researchers Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, and Rachel Thompson, received awards to support their comparative clinical effectiveness research.
Geisel School of Medicine to Honor Alumni for Outstanding Service, Career Achievements
The Alumni Council of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth will honor five of its most accomplished alumni at its first annual achievement awards celebration on Friday, October 17.
Dartmouth Researchers Develop Reproducibility Score for SNPs Associated with Human Disease in GWAS
Dartmouth researchers have identified nine traits that are not dependent on P values to predict single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) reproducibility in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and reduce false positives
Alumni Album: Late to War
Dartmouth alumnus Matthew Putnam (D’74, Med’77) talks about his journey from a career in academic medicine to performing surgery on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan.
Jim Weinstein: How we can increase price transparency in health care
There has been a great deal of focus in recent months on hospital prices and the need for more public reporting — more transparency. I couldn’t agree more, and that’s why Dartmouth-Hitchcock posts its prices for common procedures on its web site. But knowing price only gives you one part of what one needs to know.
Geisel Researcher Receives Data-Driven Discovery Grant from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Casey Greene, PhD, an assistant professor of genetics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been selected for a highly competitive award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support his work to bring the power of big data into the biology lab.