Read article – Seneca Freyleue, a research programmer and analyst at The Dartmouth Institute, is quoted in an article about her research, which she will present at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ 2024 meeting, that found that children in rural areas were more than six times as likely to check into a hospital without pediatric services compared to children in urban areas. “Children with medical complexities living in rural areas are especially vulnerable when their nearest hospital closes,” Freyleue said. “Expanding access to pediatric hospital services can help children with multiple chronic conditions receive care regardless of where they live.”

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Debra Monticciolo, a professor of radiology, in an article about her study into breast cancer screening. “Breast cancer is easier to treat if it’s found earlier; we’re able to spare women extra surgeries and chemotherapy. It’s just a better idea to shift to early detection, and that’s what screening does,” Monticciolo said.

Read article – Celia Chen ’78, Guarini ’94, a research professor of biological sciences, and Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, are featured in an article about their study into the levels of forever chemicals found in seafood. “We hope that this brings attention to the fact that seafood consumption could be an important route of PFAS exposure for high seafood consumers,” Chen said. “We do hope that this study will spur others to look more closely at this issue in their states and regions.”

Read article – Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about her study that found PFAS in seafood. “Our recommendation isn’t to not eat seafood—seafood is a great source of lean protein and omega fatty acids,” Romano said. “But it also is a potentially underestimated source of PFAS exposure in humans. Understanding this risk-benefit trade-off for seafood consumption is important for people making decisions about diet, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant people and children.”

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in an article about Therabot, a text-based AI app in development at Dartmouth designed to improve access to mental health care. “We had to develop something that really is trained in the broad repertoire that a real therapist would be, which is a lot of different content areas. Thinking about all of the common mental health problems that folks might manifest and be ready to treat those,” Jacobson said. “That is why it took so long. There are a lot of things people experience,” Jacobson said.

Read article – Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, is featured in an article about her research into the exposure to forever chemicals in a high seafood diet. “Understanding this risk-benefit trade-off for seafood consumption is important for people making decisions about diet, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant people and children,” Romano said.

Read article – Quotes Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, in a feature story about her study that found higher consumption of seafood is linked to a higher risk of PFAS exposure. “Basically, New Hampshire is a kind of case study that quantifies seafood consumption, particularly in a New England state, in order to estimate the potential risk of PFAS exposure that may come from very frequently consuming marine seafood,” said Romano. (Picked up by NHPR .)

Watch video – Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in a segment about artificial intelligence and mental health. “Most people don’t receive any type of mental health care, and a lot of that is, I think, a scale problem,” Jacobson said.

Watch video – Saeed Hassanpour, a professor of biomedical data science, is featured in a segment about a first-of-its-kind symposium held this week at Dartmouth that explored the potential benefits and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in healthcare. “It’s actually going to improve efficiency, going to reduce health care costs. It is going to improve the accuracy,” Hassanpour said.

Read article – Features a study led by Stuart Lewis, associate professor of medicine, that found that older adults who neglect themselves often experience other mistreatment at the same time and are at risk of further abuse. “Self-neglect is a huge unmet need in elder mistreatment,” Lewis said. “It has been, historically, a very difficult circumstance to intervene in ways that provide benefit to the person.”