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Community news briefs: Hypertherm’s HOPE Foundation has new leader Modified: 1/29/2021 10:02:03 PM HANOVER — Barbara Couch, who founded the Hypertherm Owners’ Philanthropic Endeavors Foundation, is stepping down after leading the nonprofit organization for a decade. Jenny Levy, Hypertherm’s vice president of people, community, and environment, who has worked at Hypertherm since 2004, will take her place, according to a news release. The HOPE Foundation provides money for nonprofit orga...

Researchers Shine a Light on UV Light Exposure and Kidney Damage Source: Mehau Kulyk/Science Photo Library/Getty Images January 25, 2021 Share Exposure to UV light causes damage to everyone’s cellular DNA. Once the cells are damaged, the immune system clears them. However, people with lupus have a much slower clearance of these cells. The dead cells stick around in the body, triggering an immune system attack. Previous studies have reported that in up to 80% of lupus patients, sun exposure c...

COVID-19 researcher has ties to Geisel School of Medicine Jason S. McLellan, associate professor of molecular biosciences, left, and graduate student Daniel Wrapp, right, work in the McLellan Lab at The University of Texas at Austin on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. While at the Geisel School of Medicines Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, McLellen was amongst those doing research that led to a COVID-19 vaccine. (The University of Texas at Austin - Vivian Abagiu) Jason McLellan, associate pro...

COVID-19: Resident dies at Windsor memory care home; Dartmouth eyes commencement changes Modified: 1/21/2021 10:02:23 PM WINDSOR — After testing positive for COVID-19, a man over the age of 90 in the memory center at the Village at Cedar Hill died on Wednesday and another resident has been hospitalized amid an outbreak there, the facility’s co-owner said. As of Thursday, 12 residents and six employees of the Judith Brogren Memory Care Center had tested positive for the disease, said Patrici...

Posted on 455 CairnSurgical, Inc., an innovator striving to make breast cancer surgery more precise, announced today that the first patient has been treated in its U.S. pivotal trial of the Breast Cancer Locator (BCL) System at Massachusetts General Hospital. The BCL System is designed to eliminate guesswork in breast cancer surgery by providing a blueprint of the tumor and a surgical guide to achieve clear margins. “We are committ...

A new collaborative study from researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of Washington (UW) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune diseases such as lupus.

New insights into link between sunlight exposure and kidney damage ANI | Updated: Jan 22, 2021 08:51 IST Washington [US], January 22 (ANI): A new collaborative study reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune diseases such as lupus. The study from researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of Washington (UW) was published in the Proceedings of the ...

 E-Mail A new collaborative study from researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of Washington (UW) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation of the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs, is caused when t...

A new collaborative study from researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of Washington (UW) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation of the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs, is caused when the immune ...

Dartmouth’s campuswide ban on tobacco earns praise, criticism Pine restaurant sous chef Robert Beisler looks over dining reservations for the restaurant during a smoke break behind the Dartmouth College-owned Hanover Inn in Hanover on Saturday. Beisler said that stepping out for a cigarette is his “little break from the hectic chaos inside.” Dartmouth is banning tobacco use on all of its properties beginning in March. “I would love the extra motivation to quit,” Beisler said. Valley N...