Marketplace – Story on a new, positive way of marketing mammograms quotes Steve Woloshin, professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and co-director of TDI’s Medicine in the Media Program.

Los Angeles Times – Says the Dartmouth Atlas Project reported last year that spending during the last two years of life was about $112,000 per patient in Los Angeles.

HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report – Continued coverage of a Dartmouth study led by Anna M. Adachi-Mejia, assistant professor of pediatrics, assistant professor of TDI, and a researcher at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, that found preadolescents between ages 10 and 14 are less likely to try smoking if they participate in a coached team sport at least a few times a week.

Burlington Free Press – In this opinion piece, Li Shen, research associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Geisel, describes a new invasive plant called garlic mustard which is taking over areas where wildflowers tend to grow.

Associated Press via NPR – Quotes Harold Sox, active emeritus professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, on a new study that found every person covered by Medicare would only need to pay an additional $3 a month if the government agreed to screen current and former smokers for lung cancer, the Associated Press reports. Sox was not involved in the study.

NBC News – Tim Lahey is quoted extensively on the intense precautionary measures health care professionals must take in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like MERS, a new respiratory virus, in hospitals.

WPTZ – Richard Morse, associate professor of pediatrics and of neurology at Geisel, and section chief of pediatric neurology at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, was interviewed for this story that focuses on whether medical marijuana could help children who are ill.

Daily Times Nigeria – Continued coverage of a study led by Marlene Goldman (professor of obstetrics, of gynecology, and of community and family medicine) that discovered women ages 38 and older are more than twice as likely to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization than if they used oral or injectible fertility drugs. Goldman is quoted in the story.

TIME – Continued coverage of a study led by Marlene Goldman, professor of obstetrics, of gynecology, and of community and family medicine, that discovered women ages 38 and older are more than twice as likely to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization than if they used oral or injectible fertility drugs.

HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report – A story on a study led by Marlene Goldman, professor of obstetrics, of gynecology, and of community and family medicine, that discovered women ages 38 and older are more than twice as likely to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization than if they used oral or injectable fertility drugs.