Miami Herald – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, about the spread of the Zika virus and how there are still a lot of unknowns about how the virus is transmitted. “We’re all steep on this dreadful learning curve,” says Talbot.

CNN – Quotes Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics, about how the U.S. had better life-expectancy stats compared to other high-income countries in the 1980s than now.

Fox News – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, about President Obama’s recent request to Congress for a historic $1.8 billion to combat the Zika virus and how concerns about the virus are well-founded. “The requested allocation is a very appropriate start to understand more of this catastrophic epidemic,” says Talbot.

Mother Jones – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, about Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s recent statement that he would use quarantines to prevent the Zika virus outbreak from spreading in the United States. Talbot states that a more effective solution to stop the spread of the Zika virus is to focus on controlling and eradicating the mosquitoes that can carry Zika.

The New York Times via Associated Press – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, about the mounting global concern over the Zika virus, and how health officials on Friday warned pregnant women to think twice about the lips they kiss and called on men to use condoms with pregnant partners if they have visited countries where the virus is present. “This virus is clearly throwing one curveball after the other,” says Talbot.

NPR – Story quotes Juliette Madan, associate professor of pediatrics, about recent research that shows slathering babies born via cesarean in microbes from their mothers’ birth canal might make it possible for them to benefit from picking up Mom’s microbes, just like babies that are born naturally. “It’s a very important study,” says Madan, who was not involved in the study. “It’s showing that this is a possible intervention that might restore a health-promoting microbiome and lead to improved health outcomes for life.”

Practical Pain Management – Article quotes Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent approval of a low-dose sumatriptan powder delivered intranasally (Onzetra Xsail, Avanir Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of migraine with or without aura in adult patients.

PRI – Quotes Juliette Madan, associate professor of pediatrics, and Anne Hoen, assistant professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science, about how developing a better understanding of the infant microbiome could one day lead to healthier babies.