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.

Yahoo News via Reuters – Continued coverage of research conducted by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, which found that children who watch TV shows with ads for kids’ fast food meals that include toys are more likely to influence the entire family to eat more frequently at fast food restaurants. “We have to be realistic that children will watch TV,” says Emond. “But parents have many options for commercial-free programming, which are great options for parents to have more control over how marketers reach their children.”

The Independent – The article quotes 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, who reviewed and co-authored a commentary (with Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics) that appears with a recent study that found a large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999.

Society for Science – Article quotes George O’Toole, professor of microbiology and immunology, about bacteria living in tiny “cities,” called biofilms, that can rot teeth or rust metal. “You’re actually more bacteria than person,” says O’Toole.

The Washington Post – Article quotes 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, in an article about how two prestigious medical journals rejected publishing a startling new study that shows a big spike in the death rate for a large group of middle-aged whites in the United States.

NHPR – As a guest on NHPR’s “The Exchange,” Diane Gilbert Diamond, assistant professor of epidemiology and community and family medicine, discusses the U.S. obesity epidemic and how although the number of Americans dealing with the condition is leveling off, it remains a stubborn problem with research showing connections to less-recognized issues like poverty, race, and stigma.