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Health information from around the Dartmouth Health System

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Using AI for Your Health? Here's What to Watch Out For

AI technology can be a useful tool to help better understand your symptoms and treatment. Just be careful what you share with an AI chatbot.

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How Do You Make Medical Care Decisions Around Serious Illness?

Here's what to think about if you're doing advance care planning around what medical interventions you might want or not want when you get seriously ill.

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What Are Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease?

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder that causes involuntary movements, stiffness, and balance problems. Symptoms can start long before you think it's anything serious.

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What Is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and What Conditions Does It Treat?

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers treat a growing number of conditions, including decompression sickness or the bends. Make sure the treatment you're getting is medically proven to help.

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Matthew S. Duncan, MD, a psychiatrist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

How to Lower Suicide Risk

Suicide rates may have been climbing in recent years. But communities, schools, healthcare systems, and families are now engaging on how to help, as quickly and appropriately as they can.

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Do You Need a Bone Density Scan?

A bone density scan, also called a DXA or DEXA scan, measures how much mineral is in certain bones. The results reveal whether your bone density is normal, a bit low (osteopenia), or low enough to be called osteoporosis.

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Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, MD, an infectious disease specialist and healthcare epidemiologist,

Confused About Whether to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

There is an uptick of COVID-19 in some areas. Find out about the 2026-2027 guidelines on whether to get vaccinated.

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