Read article – Continued coverage of research coauthored by Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and the late Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that between 1997 and 2016, spending on consumer ads for any type of healthcare service, such as DNA tests and smoking cessation campaigns, rose to $10 billion from $2 billion. The largest share—nearly $6 billion—went for drug ads. (Similar coverage in New Hampshire Union Leader, Herald-Tribuneand MM&M.)

Read article – Continued coverage of research conducted by Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that advertisers spent nearly $10 billion marketing prescription drugs and medical services to the American public in 2016—five times what they doled out 20 years earlier. (Similar coverage in Insurance Journal.)

Read article – Quotes Britton Goodale, research assistant in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and a member of Dartmouth’s Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, in a feature story about how she and additional Dartmouth researchers studying the effects of toxic metals are applauding a plan to reduce the allowable threshold for arsenic levels in New Hampshire’s drinking water. “Our research supports (the Department of Environmental Services) recommendation to reduce the limit,” says Goodale. “It would help protect the health of people drinking water in New Hampshire. (Similar coverage in MileSplit.)

Read article – Continued coverage of research led by Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, that found that cereal TV ads aimed at young children put them at increased risk for obesity and cancer.

Read article – Continued coverage of research coauthored by Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that nearly $30 billion that health companies now spend on medical marketing each year, around 68 percent (or about $20 billion) goes to persuading doctors and other medical professionals—not consumers—of the benefits of prescription drugs. (Similar coverage in Philly.com.)

Read article – Features research conducted by Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that total spending on marketing for condition awareness, health services, lab testing, and drugs ballooned from $17.7 billion annually in 1997 to almost $30 billion in 2016.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, in a feature story about research she led that found that young children are more likely to demand specific sugary cereals for breakfast when they have seen television ads for these products.

Read article – Continued coverage of research coauthored by Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, in a feature story about research she led that found that young children are more likely to demand specific sugary cereals for breakfast when they have seen television ads for these products. (Similar coverage in Food Navigator, The Hans India, India TV News, The Health Site, The Quint, Daji World News, News 18, and BakeryandSnacks.)

Read article – Quotes Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, in a feature story about research she led that found that young children are more likely to demand specific sugary cereals for breakfast when they have seen television ads for these products. (Picked up by Mid-Day.com, The Siasat Daily, and Odishatv.)

Read article – Quotes Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about research he coauthored with Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that spending on healthcare advertising in the U.S. has almost doubled over the past two decades as companies compete for their share of the world’s biggest healthcare market.