Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Cites research conducted by Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, both professors of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the effects of the drug Afinitor. Despite serious side effects, the drug has been OK’d five times in the last six years, including for a common type of advanced breast cancer.

Chronicle Daily – Cites data provided by the Dartmouth Atlas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Medical Association, FBI, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Census Bureau, which revealed the healthiest and unhealthiest U.S. states in 2015.

Valley News – Quotes C. Fordham von Reyn, professor of medicine, about how a collaborative that includes Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has received $1.4 million from the Tokyo-based Global Health Innovative Technology Fund to conduct a joint randomized clinical trial in Tanzania aimed at reducing the transmission of tuberculosis.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – An opinion piece co-authored by Brian O’Sullivan, professor of pediatrics, which uses the story of cystic fibrosis to illustrate the phenomenon of unprecedented benefits at huge costs in the era of personalized medicine.

Everyday Health – Quotes Matthew Friedman, professor of psychiatry and of pharmacology and toxicology, and senior advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, about how exposure therapy works for many conditions.

Los Angeles Times – Quotes David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how Dartmouth researchers recently found that NICU admissions increased by 23 percent in just five years; and by 2012, over half of all admissions were for normal birth weight infants or those born after 37 weeks gestation.

The Atlantic – An article co-authored by Timothy Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how new research supports the idea that social isolation is detrimental to physical health—and that companionship may improve it.

Contemporary Pediatrics – Continued coverage of research conducted by Jennifer Emond, instructor in epidemiology, which calls for more research on the effects of parent-directed marketing of children’s processed foods has on the nutritional choices parents are making for their children.

Medical Express – Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor of community and family medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how pharmaceutical sales representatives are screening people at free “health camps” for poor people in India, in return for prescriptions for their products. “This kind of behavior can actually lead to harm to patients—overdiagnosis, misclassification [of healthy people as sick], iatrogenic harm of drugs,” says Elwyn.

Fox News via Reuters – Article quotes Ellen Meara, associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics, about how it is possible that rising unemployment rates have contributed to the increase in the number and length of mental health evaluations at ERs. “Cutting community resources to treat patients with severe mental illness is a common response to tight local budgets, but it may increase problems in other parts of the healthcare system, and the broader community,” says Meara.