Read article – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) recommendations in 2017 to advise women to start screening for breast cancer no later than age 50 but with the choice to begin sooner, in their 40s. (Picked up by MSN.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Adrienne Faerber, a lecturer at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the Trump administration’s announcement that it will require drugmakers to reveal the list prices of their medicines in television ads.

Read article – Cites research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine that found that drinking coffee between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. interferes with your body’s cortisol levels.

Read article – quotes Norman Paradis, MD, an emergency physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and a professor of medicine at Geisel, about a new $3 million Precision Trauma Care Research Award from the Department of Defense’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program that will help Dartmouth and collaborating centers develop an easy-to-use, noninvasive system for detecting ongoing internal hemorrhaging in solders or other seriously injured patients who have been initially classified as injured but stable.

Read article – Quotes Kristin Knutzen, Geisel ’17, research project coordinator at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in continued coverage of a study she led that found that in the last four years, tobacco and vape manufacturers have been sliding their products into more and more music videos. The rise is particularly pronounced in hip-hop and rap videos, which the authors say is linked to Big Tobacco’s historic targeting of minority groups. (Similar coverage in ABS CBN News.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Adrienne Faerber, a lecturer at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how the Trump administration announced that it will require drugmakers to reveal the list prices of their medicines in television ads. (Picked up by WGBH. Similar coverage in Plusand ACS Surgery News.)

Read article – Cites an article by Leslie Henderson, dean of faculty affairs, and professor of physiology and neurobiology and of biochemistry and cell biology, in a story about why it’s important to have your employees feel they belong in a diversity-centered corporate culture.

Read article – Continued coverage of research led by Kristin Knutzen, Geisel ’17, research project coordinator at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, that found that almost half of the music clips made for hip hop’s biggest hits in the past five years have featured scenes of smoking or vaping. (Picked up by Breitbart and France24. Similar coverage in Daily Mail, HealthDay News, and Doctors Lounge.)

Read article – Quotes Kristin Knutzen, Geisel ’17, research project coordinator at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about a study she coauthored that found that 40 to 50 percent of the top hip-hop videos from 2013 to 2017 contained depictions of tobacco or marijuana smoking or vaping. “These depictions may affect fans’ attitudes toward smoking and increase the likelihood of smoking,” says Knutzen. The article also cites comments by Samir Soneji, associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who was the study’s coauthor.

Read article – Features an interview with Kristin Knutzen, Geisel ’17, research project coordinator at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses research she led that examined the prevalence of smoking tobacco or marijuana products in hip-hop music videos from 2013 to 2017. Knutzen discusses the findings, and what we know about the influence hip-hop videos may or may not have on young adults.