Office of Primary Care and Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program

UVM Professor of Pediatrics Barbara Frankowski, M.D., comments on the long-term use of over-the-counter lice treatment products creating a resistance to lice for a story on the hype surrounding a new “mutant” strain of lice resistant to usual, inexpensive treatments for a story on CNN and NBC affiliate KFOR Newschannel 4.

The Big Change Roundup, an annual change collection campaign that raises funds for the University of Vermont Children's Hospital programs and services in Burlington, made a stop at the local Wal-Mart in Malone on February 27, 2016, where UVM Professor and Chair of Pediatrics Lewis First, M.D., M.S., helped to count change collected for the campaign.

Beth Robbins, Psy.D., UVM clinical associate professor of psychiatry and clinical director of the Seneca Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at The UVM Medical Center, was interviewed live on WCAX-TV Channel 3’s morning news, discussing the topic of her March 1 Community Medical School presentation, “All Stressed Out: Symptoms, Physiology and Approaches for Relief.”

Patricia Fisher, M.D., UVM assistant professor of family medicine, was featured in a story on local CBS affiliate WCAX-TV about the struggles recovering opiate addicts in Vermont face in finding aftercare treatment.

University of Vermont pediatric cardiologist Niels Giddins, M.D., is featured in a news story about the American Heart Association's February 2016 "Little Hats, Big Hearts" campaign to increase awareness about congenital heart defects in newborns. Giddins, an associate professor of pediatrics, commented that structural problems in the heart can often appear following a seemingly healthy and normal birth. The story's video footage, taken at the UVM Medical Center's Mother-Baby Unit, also featured Molly Rideout, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics.

James Hebert, M.D., UVM professor of surgery, authored an editorial discussing the gross underfunding of Medicaid in the state of Vermont and a newly-proposed 2.35 percent tax on independent physicians, which threatens to put non-hospital employed doctors “out of business and leave some Vermonters without care.”

An editorial in the Salt Lake City, Utah Deseret News about sentences for juveniles features comments from David Fassler, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and Burlington, Vt. child and adolescent psychiatrist.

A front-page story in the Boston Globe highlights the brainchild of University of Vermont College of Medicine Professor James Hudziak, M.D. - UVM's Wellness Environment program, known as WE.

Joseph McSherry, M.D., Ph.D., UVM associate professor of neurological sciences, authored an editorial on the effects of cannabis-derived tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

A study showing that drug users are strongly motivated by seeking out rewards but also exhibit the inability to adjust their behavior, co-authored by Hugh Garavan, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of psychiatry, is mentioned. Read more from Health Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom, Health Canal.

Research by Robert Johnson, M.D., University of Vermont professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation emeritus, and colleagues is featured prominently in a Washington Post Health & Science article, titled "How you can prevent ski injuries."

Ahead of the coldest weekend yet, Stephen Leffler, M.D., UVM professor of surgery and chief medical officer at the University of Vermont Medical Center, offers tips to avoid frostbite and serious injuries. Watch the interview on WPTZ-TV.

New research based on a discovery by David Warshaw, Ph.D., UVM professor and chair of molecular physiology and biophysics, and colleagues of a malfunction of a specific protein in the heart linked to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common culprit in cases of sudden death in athletes, was the focus of this article featured in multiple media outlets. Read more from Medical Xpress, ANI News, Odisha Sun Times,Vietnam Tribune, MedIndia Health News, Big News Network, News Reporter, Health Medicine Network, Archy Newsy, Physical Therapy Products, Medical News Today

A recent announcement that the UVM Vaccine Testing Center will be involved in the clinical trials and research on a vaccine for Zika virus, which was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization on February 1, 2016, attracted wide local and regional media coverage. Read more from ABC 22/Fox 44 News, WCAX-TV CBS 3,WPTZ-TV NBC 5, Vermont Business Magazine, St. Albans Messenger, Times-Argus, WCAX-TV CBS 3 HealthWatch, U.S. News Hub, VT Digger, Killington Mountain Times, Burlington Sun Times, Vermont NEA, Vermont Public Radio Here and Now, Rome Sentinel, Rutland Herald, The Waltonian, Press Telegraph (no longer available), University Echo

The Clinical Simulation Laboratory at UVM was recently accredited by two prestigious simulation societies. The facility earned a three-year accreditation as a Comprehensive Accredited Education Institute (AEI) from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), and a five-year accreditation from the Society of Simulation in Health Care (SSH). Read more in the Times-Argus.

The American Lung Association released its 14th annual "State of Tobacco Control" report, which finds that Vermont made progress on tobacco control policies in 2015. These findings are the topic of an article featuring comments from Keith Robinson, M.D.'07, assistant professor of pediatrics and pediatric pulmonologist. Read the article in The Caledonian Record.

A letter from Senator Bernie Sanders' physician that was publicly released on January 28, 2016 reported that the presidential candidate is in very good health for a 74-year-old man. Local Vermont NBC affiliate WPTZ-TV interviewed Benjamin Littenberg, M.D., University of Vermont professor of medicine and director of General Internal Medicine Research, about the health findings featured in the letter. Watch a video of the interview here.

University of Vermont Clinical Professor of Psychiatry David Fassler, M.D., commented on findings from a meta-analysis of clinical reports on the link between antidepressants and risk of suicidality in children and adolescents, which appeared in the British Medical Journal. Read the article here.

University of Vermont Associate Professor of Pediatrics Andrea Green, M.D., the director of the New American Clinic at UVM Children's Hospital, is featured in an article, titled "Medical Interpreters Speak for New American Patients," in the January 27, 2016 issue of Seven Days. Read more here.

Nicholas Heintz, Ph.D., UVM professor of pathology, and colleagues were featured in a PLoS Science Wednesday live “Ask Me Anything” chat on redditscience, discussing a recently published study focusing on dysregulation of redox signaling in cancer cells, and how the enhanced production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in tumor cell mitochondria can be exploited for therapeutic purposes in aggressive human malignancies like mesothelioma. Read the full transcript of the chat here.