DMS in the News
January 2004

National/International Media

The New York Times, January 27, 2004
Plan Aids Diabetic Heart Patients
"The paradigm has always been that the danger is in too low a glucose, and that there's safety in high glucoses," said Dr. William Nugent of Dartmouth Medical School, who led the effort to put the Portland Protocol in place at his hospital last year.

The Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2004
Piggy-Bank Nation
Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth. . .and I estimated that with even 25 cents of each dollar contribution as new saving, IRA contributions generate $2.21 of new capital per dollar of net revenue cost.

The Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2004
Detroit Auto Makers Fight Local Hospitals' Building Plans
Elliott Fisher, a professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, says that while the two Michigan health systems are merely transferring beds from one area to another, increased capacity in the suburbs would mimic a national trend in which extra capacity leads to more patients being put into hospital beds.

Reuters Health, January 19, 2004
Working Through Back Pain Reduces Missed Days
"This study is important because it represents research into treatments that may help reduce the economic and societal cost of low back pain," Dr. James Weinstein of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, notes in a related editorial.

AP Newswire, January 13, 2004
Members of N.H. medical team tell of emergency work in Iran earthquake
Hinds, 45, Cooper, 37, and Dr. Robert Gougelet, 54, all of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, were in the unit from the United States that rushed to Iran to help in the universal effort to save lives.

Pan African News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire, January 12, 2004
Researcher cautions against over-use of Aspirin
Dr John Baron of Dartmouth Medical School, however, says much more research was needed before any link between aspirin and pancreatic cancer could be firmly established. "There are no easy answers to the question of what aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs do to the development of pancreatic cancer," Baron maintained.

CTV Canada News, January 12, 2004
Vitamin D and disease prevention
Researchers from Dartmouth Medical School conducted tests on mice and found that combining a form of vitamin D with radiation allowed stubborn cancer cells to be destroyed.

The Times January 9, 2004 (London)
Regular aspirin use linked to cancer cases
In a commentary, John Baron of Dartmouth Medical School raised some questions. Could it really be, he asked that the "wonder child of chronic disease prevention" could be implicated in causing a deadly cancer?

The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2004
Bayer Says Aspirin-Cancer Link Study Not Conclusive
An editorial published in the same edition of JNCI and written by John A. Baron, M.D. at Dartmouth Medical School and a member of the study's advisory board said: "There are no easy answers to the question of what aspirin and other NSAIDs do to pancreatic carcinogenesis. . ." (This also appeared in Dow Jones International News).

Reuters Health, January 8, 2004
Teachers Okay with Chronically Ill Students
Teachers clearly need more training about what to expect from children with chronic illnesses, study author Dr. Ardis Olson of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire told Reuters Health.

BBC News (UK), January 7, 2004
Cancer question mark over asprin
In an accompanying editorial, Dr John Baron, of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, said: "There are no easy answers to the question of what aspirin and other NSAIDs do to pancreatic carcinogenesis.

The Boston Globe, January 4, 2004
The revolutionary
So he used it to start the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; he became CEO, and his cofounder, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth Medical School, chaired the board.

Other Media

The Concord Monitor, January 31, 2004
House call takes doctor overseas
As a man approaching his 60's, not to mention as a father of nine and a family doctor with a few thousand patients, Dr. Robert Zahn never expected that he would be deployed to Iraq.

The Oakland Tribune, January 30, 2004
Screenwriter Eszterhas wages war on smoking in films
Madeline Dalton, lead author of the Dartmouth study, said movies are not the only influence on children and teens. "Peer influence, tobacco-control efforts, increases in prices and nonsmoking policies certainly have done a lot to decrease smoking," she said.

The Portsmouth Herald, January 27, 2004
Local substance-abuse program for youths to get $5-million grant
Dr. Stan Rosenberg, professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and an evaluator of the survey, said the results show a disturbing trend.

The Sun Herald (Mississippi), January 25, 2004
False lab test stalled monkeypox detection, report concludes
Doctors at Dartmouth Medical School and the CDC described a 21-year old New Hampshire college student who spent eight weeks caring for orphaned chimpanzees in the Republic of Congo and got tanapox, a non-human primate disease that can spread to people through mosquito or other insect bites.

The Valley News, January 19, 2004
Health Care Policy Analyst Gives U.S. System a Checkup
As a health care policy analyst at Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Ann Barry Flood has had a lot to pay attention to recently.

The Valley News, January 18, 2004
$2.6 Million Booster for Centerra Incubator
"This will help us translate our basic science into real benefits for patients,' said Dr. Stephen Spielberg, president of Dartmouth Medical School, speaking at Thursday's check presentation.

The Valley News, January 18, 2004
Helmets for Sledders Can Help Reduce Head, Brain Injuries
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, hospital emergency rooms nationwide treat about 15, 000 children ages 5 to 14 every year who were injured while sledding, and about 40 percent of those are brain injuries, said Jim Esdon, program manager with the Injury Prevention Center at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth.

The Hartford Courant, January 17, 2004
A Smoke Screen: Anti-Tobacco Activists Intent on Keeping Kids from Movies with Smoking
Madeline Dalton, lead author of the Dartmouth study, said movies are not the only influence on children and teens. ``Peer influence, tobacco-control efforts, increases in prices and non-smoking policies certainly have done a lot to decrease smoking," she said.

The Gainesville Sun (Florida), January 15, 2004
Autism experts to be on hand Friday at UF
The panel discussion, which begins at 1 p.m., will include clinicians and scientists, including Dr.Bryan King, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School.

The Union Leader, January 14, 2004
NH medical team sees Iran ruins
Hinds, 45, Cooper, 37, and Dr. Robert Gougelet, 54, all of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, were in the unit from the United States that rushed to Iran to help in the worldwide effort to save lives. . . "We've seen destruction here. . .but never before the suffering we've seen there," Gougelet said.

The Towson Times, January 14, 2004
Hospitals state case for, against expansion of angioplasty services
Hodyman, Rosen and others-including Drs. David Melenka of the Dartmouth College Medical Schoo. . . referred to studies showing that patients who undergo angioplasty at hospitals without open-heart surgery programs are twice as likely to die as patients undergoing the procedure at medical centers with that capability.

The Baltimore Sun (Maryland), January 9, 2004
Money is a pervasive presence in arguments over angioplasties
Dr. David J. Malenka, a cardiologist at Dartmouth Medical School, said he had reviewed national Medicare data covering nearly 350,000 non-emergency angioplasties. (This article also appeared in Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.)

The Des Moines Register, January 9, 2004
Support of adults helps kids thrive, experts tell forum
The findings are outlined in a recently released report by Dartmouth Medical School, the Institute for American Values and YMCA of the USA.

WFIE News (New York), January 6, 2004
Pancreatic Cancer Tied to Long-Term Aspirin Use
Dr. John Baron, an epidemiologist at Dartmouth Medical School and author of an editorial accompanying the journal article, calls the findings "provocative" and says they should force doctors "to think carefully about the actions of aspirin and other [non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs] and the mechanisms underlying pancreatic cancer."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), January 6, 2004
Americans Strongly Support Cancer Screening
It's not just the scare that matters, says Dr. Steven Woloshin, an associate professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. . . "We should let people know that screening is a double-edged sword," Woloshin says."

Standard-Journal (Pennsylvania), January 6, 2004
Red cross raises call for more donors
There is a blood shortage in this country, according to Dr. James P. AuBuchon, medical director of the Blood Bank and Transfusion Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. . ..

WebMD, January 6, 2004
Americans Committed to Cancer Screening
"The public is enthusiastic about cancer screening," writes researcher Lisa Schwartz, MD, MS, of the VA Outcomes Group at Dartmouth Medical School, and colleagues. "The challenge now is to balance messages and reduce the public's risk for overtesting and overtreatment."

Business World, January 5, 2004
Something to drink to
In 2002, Dartmouth Medical School professor and kidney specialist Heinz Valtin reported in the American Journal of Physiology that there were no scientific studies supporting the "eight by eight" rule.

The Des Moines Register (Iowa), January 5, 2004
Speakers to present research
The study was sponsored by Dartmouth Medical School, the Institute for American values and YMCA of the USA.

The Union Leader, January 3, 2004
NH physician answers call to help in Iran
It's a calling Gougelet, an emergency room physician and the medical director of the Disaster Response team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, felt for at least 13 years. . .

The Portsmouth Herald, January 2, 2004
N.H. crew helps earthquake victims
. . .and emergency room doctor Robert Gougelet are part of American relief efforts in Iran.

American Enterprise, January 1, 2004
Money Mystery at Medicare
According to a new study by John Wennberg, Elliott Fisher, and Jonathan Skinner of the Dartmouth Medical School, Medicare costs per capita are two and a half times as high in Miami as in Minneapolis. Say the researchers: "The difference in lifetime Medicare spending between a typical 65-year-old in Miami and one in Minneapolis is more than $50,000, equivalent to a new Lexus GS 400 with all the trimmings."

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