Marketplace – Story on a new, positive way of marketing mammograms quotes Steve Woloshin, professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and co-director of TDI’s Medicine in the Media Program.

Los Angeles Times – Says the Dartmouth Atlas Project reported last year that spending during the last two years of life was about $112,000 per patient in Los Angeles.

HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report – Continued coverage of a Dartmouth study led by Anna M. Adachi-Mejia, assistant professor of pediatrics, assistant professor of TDI, and a researcher at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, that found preadolescents between ages 10 and 14 are less likely to try smoking if they participate in a coached team sport at least a few times a week.

Burlington Free Press – In this opinion piece, Li Shen, research associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Geisel, describes a new invasive plant called garlic mustard which is taking over areas where wildflowers tend to grow.

Associated Press via NPR – Quotes Harold Sox, active emeritus professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, on a new study that found every person covered by Medicare would only need to pay an additional $3 a month if the government agreed to screen current and former smokers for lung cancer, the Associated Press reports. Sox was not involved in the study.

NBC News – Tim Lahey is quoted extensively on the intense precautionary measures health care professionals must take in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like MERS, a new respiratory virus, in hospitals.