Valley News – Features Associate Professor of Medicine Elizabeth Talbot, who is stationed in Liberia with a humanitarian agency at the newly established “Ebola University,” working to help control the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

U.S. News and World Report via HealthDay News – Discusses a study by Professor of Radiology William Black, which concluded that lung cancer screenings performed by skilled professionals on a very specific set of long-time smokers, could cost less for each year of quality life gained than the generally accepted $100,000-per-year threshold for cost effectiveness.

The New York Times – An opinion piece by Professor of Medicine Gilbert Welch, which discusses the rising number of diagnoses for thyroid cancer in South Korea, and the dangers of what he calls an “epidemic of diagnosis.”

The New York Times – Cites research conducted by Professor of Medicine Gilbert Welch, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which looked at the soaring cases of thyroid cancers in South Korea as screening became more popular.

U.S. News and World Report – Emeritus Professor of Medicine Ira Byock is quoted on the danger that physician-assisted suicide poses for people with mental illnesses.

The New York Times – Points to research by Professor of Medicine H. Gilbert Welch published last year in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, which looked at the benefits and risks of screening tests, and suggested that emotions strongly influence people’s desire to be screened for various cancers.

HealthDay via U.S. News and World Report – Quotes Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute and of Orthopaedic Surgery Brook Martin on the percentage of Americans who experience back pain, and cites research conducted by the Dartmouth Atlas Project on the varying rates of spinal fusion throughout the United States.

NewsWorks – Features Jeffrey Deflavio Geisel ’14, who is trying to bring affordable addiction treatment to clients in hard-to-reach rural areas of New England.

The New York Times – This article discusses marijuana usage among young adults, and quotes Alan Budney on the ways that smoking may affect students’ academic performance.

The New York Times – In this article about the brain’s adaptation to marijuana exposure, Professor of Psychiatry Alan Budney comments on smokers’ vulnerability to addiction.