http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/ Receive up-to-date DMS news releases. Feeder 1.5.10(881) http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us 2008 Trustees of Dartmouth College Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:05:16 -0500 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:05:16 -0500 http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/section_images/headings/news.jpg http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/ http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/11/04_nelson.shtml With an eye to small-town health professionals as well as to the people training students to practice medicine beyond metropolitan settings, Dartmouth's Department of Community and Family Medicine is unveiling the Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics.]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:04:49 -0500 ethics-guide-for-rural-mds David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/10/28_scleroderma.shtml At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels, and their internal organs before, in many cases, killing them.]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:21:38 -0400 geneticists-hunt-for-scleroderma-triggers David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/10/28_freeman.shtml Richard B. Freeman, Jr., M.D., a veteran transplant surgeon and medical educator at Tufts, has just been named chair of the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School.]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:02:31 -0400 freeman-named-surgery-chair David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/10/26_paquette.shtml People who live in rural areas may run a greater risk of suffering a perforated appendix than those dwelling in suburbs and cities, according to a new study from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) researchers.]]> David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:17:39 -0400 dms-cites-rural-risk-for-perforated-appendix David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/10/21_woloshin.shtml Drug labels—the main way that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) communicates the prescribing information physicians need—frequently don't include basic information required to fully understand the harms and benefits of these products, two Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) professors declare in the Oct. 29 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:24:15 -0400 prescription-better-labeling Deborah.G.Kimball@Dartmouth.edu (Deborah Kimbell, director of communications and external relations, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/10/06_white_coat.shtml Seven weeks into their first year at Dartmouth Medical School, the 47 women and 37 men of the Class of 2013 marched into DMS's Kellogg Auditorium and donned the symbol of their new profession at the School's White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 3.]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:48:11 -0400 dartmouth-welcomes-doctorstobe-to-the-profession David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/09/28_dodds.shtml Thomas M. Dodds, M.D., has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), after serving as acting chair for the past 18 months. His appointment follows the previous departmental leadership of David Glass, M.D., who chaired anesthesiology from 1983 to 2008.]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:32:24 -0400 dodds-named-anesthesiology-chair David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/09/14_hazelden.shtml Hazelden, a nonprofit organization, and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC)—both leaders in the research and development of evidence-based practices—today announced a partnership to develop a variety of resources for the mental health and addiction treatment industries. These resources, including curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings, will be published under a new "Dartmouth PRC-Hazelden" imprint.]]> David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Manager) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:31:19 -0400 hazelden-and-dartmouth-psychiatric-research-center http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/09/11_palumbo.shtml Prevention versus treatment? Cost versus efficacy? So go two of the dilemmas looming over Dartmouth's Paul E. Palumbo, M.D., and his fellow researchers in the race to fight HIV and other infectious diseases in the developing world—especially among women and their young children.]]> David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Manager) Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:41:26 -0400 weighing-costs-benefits-of-hiv-treatments David.A.Corriveau@Dartmouth.edu (David Corriveau, Media Relations Officer) http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/08/21_stanton.shtml The Dartmouth-New Hampshire lung diseases partnership has been awarded almost $2 million in economic stimulus funding from the National Institutes of Health for a fiberoptic backbone to connect Northern New England. The two-year supplement, effective this month, will provide for development of an internet network to link higher education and research institutions for large-scale collaborative regional studies.]]> dms.communications@dartmouth.edu (DMS Communications) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:56:30 -0400 httpdmsdartmouthedunews20090821stantons http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/08/12_orientation.shtml Dartmouth Medical School ushered in a new academic year when 84 first-year medical students, broadly educated and bringing a diversity of experience in work and service from around the country and world, arrived for orientation.]]> dms.communications@dartmouth.edu (DMS Communications) Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:23:17 -0400 in-the-with-new-firstyear-dartmouth-medical-stud http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/07/21_smoking.shtml An online teaching and learning hub for health promotion based at Dartmouth Medical School and Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) has launched courses on tobacco counseling strategies for young girls.]]> dms.communications@dartmouth.edu (DMS Communications) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:22:12 -0400 new-online-health-promotion-series-offers-smoking http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2009/07/13_conejo_garcia.shtml In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.]]> dms.communications@dartmouth.edu (DMS Communications) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:58:05 -0400 trojan-horse-for-ovarian-cancernanoparticles-tur