Consumer Reports – Cites research conducted by Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which analyzed prescription drug benefits and harms for Consumer Reports.

Union Leader – Quotes Rachel Thompson, an assistant professor at Geisel’s Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who is currently leading research on how best to improve decision-making about contraceptive methods and also to examine the downstream effects on women’s contraceptive satisfaction and their experience of unintended pregnancy. Thompson and her team are working to help women make informed choices about contraception through a project called, “Right For Me: Birth control decisions made easier.”

The New York Times – Dror Ben-Zeev, assistant professor of psychiatry, participates in The New York Times’ opinion section “Room for Debate,” discussing whether or not smartphone apps can be used to treat anxiety or depression. The article notes that Ben-Zeev leads a research group that studies the effects of mobile phone applications on mental health, and that their research has found that some app interventions can benefit those who use them.

Psych Central – Continued coverage of comments made by Dror Ben-Zeev, assistant professor of psychiatry, from his opinion piece in The New York Times’ “Room for Debate,” where he discusses whether or not smartphone apps can be used to treat anxiety or depression.

Prevention – Article cites research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine, which suggests that milk contains testosterone-like hormones, which may stimulate oil glands in the skin and contribute to breakouts.

NHPR – Sarah Akerman, assistant professor of psychiatry, is a guest on NHPR’s “Weekend Edition” for an ongoing series on the opioid crisis in New Hampshire called “Dangerous Ends” to discuss the Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program.

NHPR – Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has received a $5 million Common Fund grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project they hope will lead to better health outcomes and decreased medical costs. The grant will fund an investigation into the psychological and biological factors that motivate individuals to improve their health. (Similar coverage in the Valley News.)

Livescience – Cites a study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University, which found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should avoid using words like “breakthrough” and “promising” to describe new drugs when making announcements aimed at the public because it does not necessarily mean that a drug is effective or that it will help patients live longer.

Harvard Business Review – An opinion piece co-authored by William Weeks, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; and James Weinstein, professor of orthopaedics, community and family medicine, and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the value of the development of tools that will allow patients to self-report outcomes data in real time to help other patients anticipate their own course of treatment.

The Wall Street Journal – Cites research by Benjamin Crosier, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychiatry, in an article about how Facebook’s restrictions on its user data are rippling through academia, business and presidential politics. Crosier was building an app to look for links between social-media activity and drug addiction, and Facebook’s restrictions on data halted his research. Crosier is petitioning the company to get some of that data back and hopes to salvage his project by asking Facebook for access to eight types of data, including photos in which a user is tagged. He hopes to reconstruct a person’s friend network by seeing who they socialize with through their photos. Dr. Crosier says he won’t be able to see the images themselves, just that a user was tagged and by whom.