Read article – Ellen Flaherty, instructor in medicine and co-director of Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging, will become president of the American Geriatrics Society at the start of its annual scientific meeting this week in California. Flaherty is a co-principal investigator of the geriatrics workforce enhancement program at Dartmouth and the coordinating center administered by the American Geriatrics Society that provides resources to geriatrics workforce enhancement programs across the country.

WMUR – Story features research conducted by Tracie Caller, adjunct professor of neurology, and Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, that found cyanobacteria, formerly known as blue-green algae, may be linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

WalletHub – Features an interview with James Sargent, the Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology and professor of pediatrics and of community and family medicine, about the negative physical and financial effects of smoking, his insight regarding smoking-cessation programs, e-cigarettes, and other smoking-related concerns.

Yahoo News via Every Day Health – Quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, about how exposure therapy works for many conditions.