Daniel Sands, M.D., general medicine and primary care, said in a USA Today story that physicians need to learn how to use the Web more effectively since patients are going online more to find health information. Sands also was featured in a Boston Herald story about the limited availability of electronic patient record systems to physicians.

Javed Sheikh, M.D., allergy and inflammation, was interviewed by WHDH-TV (Channel 7) about the results of two studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that found that the use of mite-proof bed coverings fail to relieve asthma and allergies.

Lissa Kapust, LICSW, behavioral neurology, discussed BIDMC’s DriveWise program, which helps elders determine if they are still capable of driving, in interviews on WCVB-TV (Channel 5) and on ABC’s “World News Tonight” with Peter Jennings.

In Boston Herald and Worcester Telegram & Gazette stories, Lynne Uhl, M.D., pathology, discussed a proposal to establish competing blood banks in Massachusetts to create competition with the Red Cross for blood products in the hope of driving down costs for hospitals.

Raghu Kalluri, Ph.D., Center for Matrix Biology, was featured in a Science Magazine article about the development of anti-angiogenic treatments for cancer.

Stephen Epstein, M.D., emergency medicine, discussed in a Los Angeles Times story why hospitals may limit access to loved ones of patients receiving invasive or lifesaving treatments.

Daniel Rooks, Sc.D., Be Well! Tanger Center for Health Management, was featured in a story in The Boston Globe about the correct diet and exercise involved to achieve washboard abs.

In a story in The Boston Globe, Benjamin Sachs, M.D., obstetrics and gynecology, spoke about a study that showed that mothers who gave birth in community hospitals do just as well as those who deliver their babies in teaching hospitals.

Richard Parker, M.D., general medicine and primary care, was quoted in a story in The Boston Globe about a Tufts Health Plan decision to give 5,000 physicians hand-held BlackBerrys on which to write and transmit prescriptions. Parker stated that the more prescribing is made electronic, the safer and more efficient it will be.

George Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D., Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine, was quoted in a Boston Herald story about the diet dangers of ice cream shops. Blackburn said that the key to indulging in ice cream is to maintain a small portion without whip cream, fudge, nuts and other additions.

Johanna Perlmutter, M.D., obstetrics and gynecology, discussed in an interview on WHDH-TV (Channel 7) the diagnoses that would lead a physician to recommend that a women have a hysterectomy.

The New York Times reviewed “Bull’s-Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease,” a book written by Jonathan Edlow, M.D., emergency medicine. The book examines the origins of the disease and follows the investigation triggered by the persistence of two Connecticut mothers in 1975.