Wall Street Journal – Lombard Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVAR), a medical device company focused on Endovascular Aortic Repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), showcased its Aorfix(TM) Endovascular Stent Graft at the 2014 Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Annual Meeting in Boston, June 5-7. Mark Fillinger, M.D., Director, Vascular Surgery Training Programs, Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, will present “Clinical Experience Treating Highly Angulated AAAs On-Label Using the Aorfix Endovascular Stent Graft” at the SVS Vascular Live symposium today.

NBCNews – Dr. David Wennberg, a Dartmouth Institute researcher who has studied the payment issue, said that with billions of tax dollars at stake federal officials need to hit the “reset button” on risk scoring. Wennberg said Medicare Advantage “is a very large program with lots of money flowing through it. There are always vested interests in protecting the status quo.”

TIME – An extensive story on a Geisel study that discovered that a version of the BRCA2 gene, which increases risks of breast and ovarian cancer, may increase the risk of lung cancer as well.

Valley News – In a recent speech on health care reform, Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, touted the reform efforts of Dartmouth and its affiliates and encouraged the audience to embrace such efforts locally.

ProPublica & The Daily Beast – Joanne Nicholson, professor of psychiatry at Geisel and at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC), is quoted extensively in this piece on whether it’s ethical for parents with mental illnesses to lose custody of their children.