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A joint team of researchers from Radiation Oncology at Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), Dartmouth Engineering, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Department of Surgery have developed a method to convert a standard linear accelerator (LINAC), used for delivery of radiation therapy cancer treatment, to a FLASH ultra-high-dose rate radiation therapy beam. The work, entitled “Electron FLASH Delivery at Treatment Room Isocenter for Efficient Reversible Convers...

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, N.H., Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Beisler said that stepping out for a cigarette is, "my 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," said Beisl...

2021 Geisel Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 15th Annual Geisel MLK Health Equity Celebration "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane." - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Statement of Purpose – The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inequities that have long existed within health and society.  Across the years, many have pointed to the current system and pushed for a more inclusive future. A future that is made more urgent by the...

Slowey McManus Communications of Boston hired BRITTANY MURPHY as a senior account executive. She is an alumna of Emerson College in Boston, where she received a degree in journalism. Prior to this she was at Western Mass News as the main anchor on morning and afternoon segments. Murphy will primarily work from Central Massachusetts and provide clients with a range of public relation services.  Image Webster Five hired IZZY CRUZ as assistant vice president, senior branch manager at its Shrews...

Groundwork for Covid-19 vaccine laid at Dartmouth Geisel research being employed by Pfizer/BioNTech January 7, 2021 Structural biologist Jason McLellan and his colleagues at Geisel and two other prominent labs conducted groundbreaking research on the coronavirus spike protein, the major surface protein that this type of virus uses to bind to human cells and invade them. Discoveries originating in a basic science lab at Geisel School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology a...

Postponed: Community Conversations, January 6, 2021 Please see Provost Joseph Helbles comments in the video below. We will be rescheduling this Community Conversation.

Love a caffeine high? Why your first cup of coffee might not be helping as much as you think Dawn Jorgenson, Digital Content Editor, Graham Media Group Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Cup of coffee. (Dominika Roseclay from Pexels.) If you’re a coffee lover, you probably already know there are some pretty great health benefits, but we’re guessing your main reason for drinking it might be that fantastic caffeine high you get that helps you make it through the day. Here’s what you may not kn...

Forum, Dec. 30: Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s priorities are flawed Published: 12/29/2020 10:00:21 PM Modified: 12/29/2020 10:00:14 PM Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s priorities are flawed I am grateful to Dominick Dephillips for speaking candidly about his mental health (“Psych care in short supply: Newport man turned away by DHMC is one example,” Dec. 24). Thanks to West Central Behavioral Health, they found time to see him and I wish him well. The root crisis in our inequitable health system is acces...

 E-Mail IMAGE: U.S. maps of participants by percentage reporting exercise change in metropolitan versus non-metropolitan areas. view more  Credit: Figure by Elise J. Laugier. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted daily life, including many peoples ability to exercise, which can boost mood, reduce stress and benefit ones physical and mental health. A Dartmouth study finds that pregnant women whose exercise routines were impacted by the pandemic have higher depression scores than those wh...

Discoveries originating in a basic science lab at Geisel School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology are being used in the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine from the Pfizer/BioNTech partnership. Beginning in 2016, structural biologist Jason McLellan, PhD, and his colleagues at Geisel and two other prominent labs, conducted groundbreaking research on the coronavirus spike protein, the major surface protein that this type of virus uses to bind to human cells and invade them. ...