Why Are We Blind to Behavior Change Barriers?
NEJM Catalyst
David Laibson, Harvard University Chair of the Department of Economics, and Punam Keller, Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business Associate...
Health care costs are bankrupting us
CNN
Spending on health care has increased sharply and in 2014, it amounted to 8% of household expenditures, compared to 5.7% in 2005.
Half of Americans now know an opioid addict: Column
Jill Horwitz and Ellen Meara
Despite dozens of state laws, the epidemic continues to kill thousands.
Cancer Screening, Overdiagnosis, and Regulatory Capture
The JAMA Network
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has given thyroid cancer screening a D grade, recommending against screening.1 They conclude...
End-of-Life Care for Dementia Patients More Expensive than for other Ailments
Washington Post
A study done by the Geisel School of Medicine’s Jonathan Skinner and colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine a...
Apple Recognizes Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program
The Dartmouth
Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science program has been recognized by Apple for its innovation, use of technology a...
Geisel Researcher Receives Prestigious $3.7M National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award
Geisel News Center
Giovanni Bosco, PhD, an associate professor of genetics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 m...
How much money do we waste on useless health care?
Vox
The Dartmouth Atlas argues it's largely about how doctors practice medicine. Researchers there have spent lots of time looking at...
What I Was Wrong about This Year
The New York Times
Quotes Dr. H. Gilbert Welch in an article about how to fully understand probabilities, especially low probabilities. “Just because it’s r...