New Scientist – Continued coverage of research led by Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, Allison Anderson, a post-doctoral fellow, using Virtual Reality headsets in hopes of testing the technology’s ability to alleviate feelings of isolation, relax people and sharpen their focus.

Stat News – Quotes Timothy Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about a new diagnostic tool that uses the body’s response to determine if a patient is feeling lousy because of a bacteria, a virus, or something else entirely.

New Hampshire Union Leader – Quotes Julie Bynum, associate professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who is the lead researcher on a comparative study released Tuesday of seven developed countries’ approaches to end-of-life care.

WalletHub – Features an interview with James Sargent, the Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology and professor of pediatrics and of community and family medicine, about the negative physical and financial effects of smoking, his insight regarding smoking-cessation programs, e-cigarettes, and other smoking-related concerns.

The Washington Post – Article quotes Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, about how a new study shows that chronic exposure to a toxin found in some lakes and desert topcrusts contributes to neurological problems commonly associated with ALS, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, but at least in certain animals the damage appeared to be offset by increasing an amino acid in the diet.

Marketplace – Quotes David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how The Dartmouth Atlas Project, which gathers and analyzes health care data, found that 17 percent of Medicare’s $550 billion annual budget is spent on patients’ last six months of life. “We haven’t bent the cost curve on end-of-life care,” says Goodman.

NHPR – As a guest on NHPR’s “The Exhange,” William Burl Daviss, associate professor of psychiatry, discusses how having a child with ADHD is no longer outside the norm, but that there’s plenty of disagreement over the nature of the diagnosis itself, when medication can help kids, and when other approaches might be better.

Science Friday – As guests on Science Friday, Juliette Madan, associate professor of pediatrics, and Anne Hoen, assistant professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science, discuss how developing a better understanding of the infant microbiome could one day lead to healthier babies.

NJ Spotlight – Cites research in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care that found New Jersey has the highest intensity in the country of hospital and specialist care at the end of life for chronically ill Medicare patients, while coming in below average for utilization of home health and hospice.

The Huffington Post – Quotes Juliette Madan, associate professor of pediatrics, and Anne Hoen, assistant professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science, who are co-authors of recent study that found that the gut bacteria of 6-week-old babies may be related to the way the infants were delivered and what they have been eating.