Challenging Assumptions About Health And Wealth Choices
Posted On Sunday, February 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Business, Carol L. Folt, Faculty, Health, James O. Freedman, Office of the President, Paul Danos, Punam A. Keller, Tuck School of Business
If you ask Professor Punam Anand Keller, who teaches social marketing at the Tuck School of Business and strategic health marketing in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, to describe her work, she has a simple answer.
Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck, ...
McCollough Medical Scholar’s Forum Features VP of Top Medical Insurance Group
Posted On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ALABAMA Tags: College of Arts, Dr. Hayes Whiteside, Health, Lecture, sciences
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Hayes Whiteside, senior vice president of risk management and chief medical officer for a top medical insurance company, will be the featured speaker for the 11th annual Susan and Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholars Forum Feb. 1-2 in the Shelby Hall rotunda on The University of Alabama campus.
The forum, sponsored ...
Unique Partnership Between Dartmouth And Kosovo Pays Dividends For Students
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: American University of Kosovo, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Ferid Agani, Geisel School of Medicine, Health, International, Students
“It was like a window opening up,” says Dafina Pruthi, Adv’10, about her 2002 visit to Dartmouth as a medical exchange student from Kosovo, the small, ethnically Albanian nation that was once part of Yugoslavia. “It gave us an opportunity to observe very high-quality medical care. It truly gave us ...
Health And Human Services Faculty And Staff Members Saluted
Posted On Monday, December 31, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MICHIGAN Tags: Dr. Earlie M. Washington, Drs. Linda Reeser, Health, Helen Beck, James Henry, Robert Wall Emerson, services faculty
KALAMAZOO—Four Western Michigan University faculty and staff members were recently presented awards by Dr. Earlie M. Washington, dean of the College of Health and Human Services.
Washington presented the awards at a Dec. 7 ceremony to recognize the recipients—Helen Beck and Drs. Linda Reeser, Robert Wall Emerson and James Henry. They received ...
To Your Health: Some Facts About Diabetes
Posted On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 By USA Education News. Under KENTUCKY Tags: Diabetes, Health, high blood pressure, Stephen Winters, UofL Physicians
Did you know that about 27 million Americans live with diabetes? It can be caused by too little insulin, resistance to insulin or both. (Insulin is a hormone the pancreas produces to control blood sugar.)
Diabetes is a lifelong, chronic disease, and is the leading cause of kidney failure, non-injury lower-limb ...
New Tests Heighten Calls For Limits On Arsenic In Rice (NewScientist)
Posted On Saturday, September 22, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Arsenic, Brian Jackson, Health, Research, Science, Trace Element Analysis Core Facility
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
NewScientist turns to Professor Brian Jackson, director of Dartmouth’s Trace Element Analysis Core Facility, for his thoughts on the results of tests commissioned by Consumer Reports and by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the amount of arsenic that is present in rice and rice products.
What’s unclear, NewScientist notes, is the degree of danger the ...
Making Hard Decisions About Dying Brings Personal, Financial Benefits (NBC News)
Posted On Friday, September 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Health, Medicine, Society, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
A study conducted by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice found that seven out of 10 Americans die from chronic diseases, and though Americans are living longer, many families have not made end-of-life plans, NBC News’ Rock Center With Brian Williams reports.
“The uncertainty over how to handle a loved ...