Herald of Randolph – Coverage of the second annual Upper Valley Brain Bee that took place Saturday at Dartmouth. The competition was hosted by The Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth and the Society for Neuroscience, New Hampshire Chapter. It pitted local high school students against each other as they answered questions about the human brain.

Marketplace – Story on a new, positive way of marketing mammograms quotes Steve Woloshin, professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and co-director of TDI’s Medicine in the Media Program.

Los Angeles Times – Says the Dartmouth Atlas Project reported last year that spending during the last two years of life was about $112,000 per patient in Los Angeles.

HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report – Continued coverage of a Dartmouth study led by Anna M. Adachi-Mejia, assistant professor of pediatrics, assistant professor of TDI, and a researcher at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, that found preadolescents between ages 10 and 14 are less likely to try smoking if they participate in a coached team sport at least a few times a week.

Burlington Free Press – In this opinion piece, Li Shen, research associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Geisel, describes a new invasive plant called garlic mustard which is taking over areas where wildflowers tend to grow.

Associated Press via NPR – Quotes Harold Sox, active emeritus professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, on a new study that found every person covered by Medicare would only need to pay an additional $3 a month if the government agreed to screen current and former smokers for lung cancer, the Associated Press reports. Sox was not involved in the study.

NBC News – Tim Lahey is quoted extensively on the intense precautionary measures health care professionals must take in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like MERS, a new respiratory virus, in hospitals.