WCAX-TV – As a guest on WCAX, H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses the American Cancer Society’s recently changed recommendations for breast cancer screening.

New Hampshire Union Leader – Article mentions that Seddon Savage, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction Recovery and Education, recently participated in the Catholic Medical Center’s Summit on Management of the Opiate-dependent Patient and Optimal Pain Treatment where she addressed starting or continuing opioid therapy safely and assessing and managing aberrant medication-taking behavior.

I4U News – Quotes Margaret Karagas, chair and professor of epidemiology and professor of community and family medicine, who is the senior author on a study examining the effects on arsenic exposure on children before birth. The study found that children of pregnant women who were exposed to arsenic are more prone to infections. The article also notes that the study was led by Shohreh Farzan, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of epidemiology.

U.S. News & World Report – Article quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, who has been working with other PTSD experts to advocate for a treatment that proactively stops the development of PTSD after a person has experienced trauma.

CNN – Additional coverage of comments by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, about her recent research findings that fast food ads featuring toys may influence the entire family to eat more frequently at fast food restaurants. “It is a dual-pronged approach where food manufacturers are targeting kids to pester (their parents) for these products, and then manufacturers are marketing to parents to get them to think these products are healthy and not to feel guilty about buying them,” says Emond.

Health Day News – Quotes Diane Gilbert-Diamond, assistant professor of epidemiology and of community and family medicine, who is the senior author of a recent study about how parents are the target of many misleading television ads for children’s foods and drinks.

Yahoo News via Reuters – Quotes Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, about how television ads selling sugary snacks and drinks as fun, adventurous options for cool kids also promote the products to parents as nutritious, family-friendly choices.

The New Yorker – Cites comments by Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics, and Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, and professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel. They co-authored a commentary on a paper by Princeton economists that showed that middle-aged white Americans are dying in much larger numbers than they used to.