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.

Hamilton Spectator – Continued coverage on a recent Geisel School of Medicine study, which surveyed 1,050 young smokers, ages 15-23, and found that within two years, 39 percent who had smoked a hookah had graduated to cigarettes. The study notes that the young and impressionable get hooked at a rate greater than 30 percent.

Forbes – Quotes David Axelrod, assistant professor of surgery and of community and family medicine, who conducted a study of liver transplant outcomes at small and large transplant programs, comparing the smallest third of programs (which transplanted a median of 21 patients per year) to the largest third of programs (which transplanted more than 90).