Medical Daily – A recent study conducted by researchers from Geisel found that movie characters that smoke, both “good guys” and “bad guys,” influence teen smoking.

Health Affairs – Op-ed collaboration by Jonathan Skinner, Elliot Fisher, and James Weinstein. Skinner is the James Freedman Presidential Professor of Economics, Fisher is the director of The Dartmouth Institute, and Weinstein is the CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

WPTZ NBC 5 – Article discusses collaboration by researchers at Geisel and the University of Washington School of Public Health on a study, which found that much fewer workers who consult a chiropractor end up receiving surgery compared to those who visit a surgeon first.

CBC News – Study authors noted that narcotic painkillers are not a good long-term solution for topics workplace injuries. “The effectiveness is at best uncertain, and the risks are very real,” says Associate Professor of TDI Ellen Meara.

VPR – Associate Professor of Medicine Tim Lahey is interviewed discussing the recent Ebola virus outbreak. “There’s almost no chance that even nurses and doctors in the United States could get this. And the reason for that is that among the roughly 2,000 people that have Ebola virus disease, very, very few of them can get on a plane and come to one of the developing world countries,” he says.

New Times – Agnes Bingwahoo, the Health Minister for Rwanda and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Geisel, “becomes the first PhD honour to be awarded to a Rwandan national at the University of Rwanda.”