NPR – NPR’s Shots reports that new government data revealing how much Medicare pays physicians “could replicate on the physician level what the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has been doing for decades in showing variances in Medicare’s hospital spending.”

The Wall Street Journal – Quotes Elliott Fisher on a new government report that reveals physician billing practices. Fisher is director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the James W. Squire Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine.

The Wall Street Journal – Quotes Elliott Fisher on a new government report that reveals physician billing practices.

Daily Mail – An extensive story on a study led by James Sargent and researchers at Pittsburgh University’s School of Medicine that found binge drinking by teenagers and young adults is strongly connected to listening to music that references branded alcohol. Sargent is a professor of pediatrics, of community and family medicine, of TDI, and a co-director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

ANI via Business Standard – A story on a study led by Samir Soneji that discovered increased tobacco use in young adults is linked to exposure to direct marketing of tobacco products. Soneji is an assistant professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

New Hampshire Union Leader– A story on a study led by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, and Thayer School of Engineering that found a new technique to detect small breast cancer tumors during surgery.