Dartmouth Medical School


Dartmouth Medical School, (DMS) was founded in 1797 and is part of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Today DMS has approximately 620 students and is a constituent part of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center which includes the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital teaching hospital and biomedical research labs. Dartmouth is ranked as a top-tier Ivy League medical school and offers medical degrees, master's degrees and PhDs.

Address

1 Rope Ferry Road • Hanover, NH 03755-1404 

News Office

Email

Hali [dot] Wickner [at] dartmouth [dot] edu

Phone

(603) 650-1520 

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Ethics guide for rural MDs

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With an eye to small-town health professionals as well as to the people training students to practice medicine beyond metropolitan settings, Dartmouth's Department of Community and Family Medicine is unveiling the Handbook ...


Geneticists hunt for scleroderma triggers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels, and their internal organs before, ...


Adding tools against breast tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At the end of a 10-year, coast-to-coast study of women with an unusual form of breast cancer, Richard J. Barth Jr., M.D., and three fellow researchers are making the case for a particular combination of treatments to stop ...


Do drug therapies raise risk of bladder cancer?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In her most recent study of possible triggers of cancer among northern New England residents, Dartmouth epidemiologist Margaret R. Karagas, Ph.D., and her team identified an enhanced risk to the bladders of patients taking ...


Gene targeting discovery opens door for vaccines and drugs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In a genetic leap that could help fast track vaccine and drug development to prevent or tame serious global diseases, DMS researchers have discovered how to destroy a key DNA pathway in a wily and widespread human parasite. ...


Owning alcohol-branded merchandise associated with teen drinking behaviors

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Dartmouth-led study of young U.S. teens showed that between 11 and 20 percent own T-shirts or other items featuring an alcohol brand, and those who do appear more likely to transition through the stages of drinking from ...


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Innovative new Web site empowers young girls to live smoke-free

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new Web site designed to emphasize smoking prevention for young girls has been launched through Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) and Dartmouth Medical School (DMS). The safe, online patient education ...


Researchers discover gene signatures for scleroderma

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Distinct genetic profiles can discern different groups of patients with scleroderma, a vexing autoimmune disease in which the body turns against itself, Dartmouth Medical School researchers report. Their discovery of distinguishing ...