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Drivers, dealerships and mechanics adapt as electric vehicles trickle into the Upper Valley On her way to work, Julie Davis, of Lyme, N.H., unplugs her Nissan Leaf on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Davis and her husband Jay bought the car in in December. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Bob Watson, owner of Watsons Automotive in East Thetford, Vt., works on a truck in his shop on Wedne...

Our pandemic year: Valley News photos captured life as it was changing in the early days of the pandemic Shawn Caffrey, of Cornish, N.H., arranges items in the back of his truck after shopping at a big box store in West Lebanon, N.H., on Monday, March, 2, 2020. Caffrey was shopping with his mother, Susan Williams. They said on this shopping trip they bought extra soups and larger quantities of their regular shopping items, keeping the coronavirus in the back of their minds. (Valley News - Jenni...

Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021. Credit: Matt Wright-Steel On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for their family’s first-ever snowboarding vacation. It was a chance for the couple and their two young kids to relax after the holidays and before the spring semester kicked off at UT, when McLellan would begin his second year as an associate professor in molecular biosciences.    McLellan’s new snowboarding boots were pinching him...

This Viewpoint discusses the unexpected large billing that can occur when a patient receives care from an out-of-network physician or center (surprise billing)—

The concentric circles of Dr. Bernard Lown’s influence Updated February 22, 2021, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Bernard Lown, a pioneering cardiologist and a recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize as a cofounder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, was photographed in his Newton home in 2012. He died Feb. 16 at 99.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff As a teacher, he passed on a legacy of truly seeing the patient Mark Feeney’s tribute to Dr. Bernard Lown, who died ...

Barbara Jobst, MD, PhD. Photo by Mark Washburn Barbara C. Jobst, MD, Dr. med, has been named the new chair of the Department of Neurology for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Previously, Jobst served as vice chair of Neurology and section chief of Adult Neurology. She has directed the Epilepsy Center at D-H and is the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience at Geisel. She succeeds Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD, who retired as department chair in January 2021. Jobst...

A Life: Gail M. Barton 1937 — 2020; ‘You name it, she did it’ Gail Barton paints at Lakeside Park in Enfield, N.H., on Sept. 5, 2019. (Rebecca S. Bense photograph) Dr. Gail Barton stands with one of her wall hangings at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s. (Courtesy photograph) Gail Barton, left, and Susan Rump are photographed at the opening reception for a group show they had with Anne Hartmann at Cedar Circle Farm in East Thetford, Vt., in Sept. 2013. (Court...

By - Associated Press - Sunday, February 7, 2021 LEBANON, N.H. (AP) - Three new gifts totaling $3.35 million will go toward cancer immunotherapy research and teaching at a New Hampshire cancer center. The funds will help accelerate the development of multiple, promising, next-generation immunotherapies, which harness a patient’s own immune system, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. “These drugs t...

President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 “ Share February 04, 2021 by Susan J. Boutwell Shontay Delalue has led diversity and inclusion initiatives at Brown University. Photo by Peter Goldberg Photography PreviousNext Shontay Delalue, a recognized leader in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education, has been named Dartmouths inaugural senior vice president and senior diversity officer—a role that was recently elevated on campus. She is currently the vice president for institu...

Community Conversations, February 3, 2021 Provost Joseph Helbles guests on this weeks Community Conversations were Geisel School of Medicine Dean Duane Compton and Benjamin Chan, New Hampshires state epidemiologist. Chan, a physician, received a master of public health degree from Geisel in 2013 and did his internal medicine residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where he practices. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Geisel.