Easy to Trust, Easy to Love, Easy to Marry

In October 2012, Cassandra Stubblefield worked the night shift at Cardinal Health in Madison, Miss. She was busy loading totes with orders of pharmaceutical and medical supplies, when she noticed the smile of a new hire that “just made me melt,” she said. That smile belonged to Veronica Johnson. Although each had sworn off dating…

A Proposal in His Childhood Bedroom

Despite Carlos Montoya’s desire to settle down, many life transitions, including a move to the Middle East, left him back at the starting line when it came to finding the right partner. In the summer of 2014, Mr. Montoya, 39, met Rebecca Stella on a boat in Miami. “I noticed Rebecca as soon as she…

NIH establishes new childhood asthma clinical research network

WHAT: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $10 million in first-year funding to establish a clinical research network called Childhood Asthma in Urban Settings (CAUSE). This nationwide network will conduct observational studies and clinical trials to improve understanding of asthma and develop treatment…

Body’s natural pain killers can be enhanced

Fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine–these substances are familiar to many as a source of both pain relief and the cause of a painful epidemic of addiction and death. Scientists have attempted for years to balance the potent pain-relieving properties of opioids with their numerous negative side effects–with mostly mixed results. Work by John Traynor, Ph.D., and Andrew…

Targeting drug-resistant breast cancer with estrogen

LEBANON, NH – Researchers at Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) hope to make estrogen therapy a more accessible treatment option for breast cancer patients who could benefit from it. Anti-estrogen treatments, which block growth signals from estrogen receptors (ER) in tumors, are effective treatments for ER+ breast cancer. But it is common…