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.

Lung Disease News – Cites a new study conducted by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine, in collaboration with Novartis Pharmaceutical, which found that mannitol co-treatment with the antibiotic tobramycin did not enhance the antibiotic’s bacterial killing effect in a cystic fibrosis model.

NPR – Continued coverage of comments by Jonathan Skinner, a professor of economics and of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, who co-authored a commentary accompanying recent research about how suicides and drug overdoses have contributed to a marked increase in the mortality rate for middle-aged white Americans.

The New York Times – Article quotes Ellen Meara and Jonathan Skinner, both associate professors of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professors of economics, who co-authored a commentary accompanying recent research about how suicides and drug overdoses have contributed to a marked increase in death rates for middle-aged white Americans. “It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote Meara and Skinner. (Picked up by Herald Recorder.

The New York Times – Quotes Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology and co-author of a recent study 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.

U.S. News & World Report via Health Day News – Continued coverage of research conducted by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology and co-author of a recent study 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.