Consumer Reports – Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, were commissioned to review the research and prepare a Drug Facts Box for Belsomra. Their analysis showed that the small improvements in sleep provided by the drug didn’t help people feel more refreshed. Instead, more people who took Belsomra felt drowsy the next day compared with those who took a placebo.

The Economist – This article cites research by Dror Ben-Zeev, assistant professor of psychiatry, on the incorporation of technology into the treatment of mental illness.

Fox News – Cites research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine on the Ketogenic Diet, which was developed for children suffering with epilepsy as a way to manage their seizures. The researchers found that that even though the diet reduces the frequency of seizures in children, it may result in long-term memory trouble and poor quality brain growth.

Forbes – Cites data from the Dartmouth Atlas, which notes that six percent of cancer patients receive chemotherapy in the last two weeks of their lives while the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) points out that chemotherapy given in the last month of life has “little or no benefit to patients.”

NBC Nightly News – News that rates of heroin use doubled among women over the past decade doesn’t surprise Shea, who’s 26 and pregnant. She’s also a newly clean addict. It also doesn’t surprise the staff at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Perinatal Addiction Treatment program in New Hampshire, where Shea got help to reduce the odds of giving birth to an addicted baby.

The American Bazaar – Continued coverage on the findings of researchers from Harvard and Dartmouth, which observed mammography screening data from 16 million women in 547 U.S. counties in 2000 via the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry, and determined that screenings have led to the overdiagnosis of breast cancer.

Wisconsin State Journal – James Bernat, professor of neurology and medicine and the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience, is quoted in an article discussing how some doctors are advocating for a new type of organ donation — from people who die of cardiac arrest at home, in emergency rooms or other places outside of inpatient hospital units.

Huffington Post via Quiet Revolution – Quotes Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine, on grading class participation and how introverts and extroverts should be held to the same standard. “You don’t get a pass for your personality type. I understand that social anxiety is a real thing—I am an introvert, and my mother used to actually faint if she had to do public speaking—but part of my job as a teacher is to teach people how to articulate and be heard,” says Hoyt.