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Two Dartmouth doctors argue that drug labels don’t tell you how well your medications work or how safe they really are.

Worse yet, they don’t tell your doctors everything they need to know.

A little-known piece of legislation based on their work is included in a Senate health care overhaul bill.

And as health reporter Elaine Grant has learned, that could eventually change the way the pharmaceutical industry labels drugs.

The Governor championed tightening lead standards two years ago. Now he defends job cuts the state’s top health officials say will make it all but impossible carry out lead-protection laws.

Residents of Bethlehem have a higher than expected rate of both pancreatic and breast cancer.
That’s the finding of a New Hampshire Health and Human Services Department report released Tuesday.
The study was a follow-up on cancer rates in Bethlehem, and included eight surrounding towns.
But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, the report could not find a common factor that would explain the increase.

The recent protests against the state’s marijuana laws have died down. Several weeks ago, the pro-legalization group in Keene had about 120 people participating in its daily demonstrations on the city square. And the press, some from as far away as Boston, was there to document it.

Despite six protest-related arrests during the recent Pumpkin Festival, the daily count is back down to a few dozen demonstrators. The police - and the news media - have been staying away.

The Keene Sentinel’s Donna Moxley reports on how the media coverage helped fuel the movement.

During the month of October, the haunted house industry will scare up close to half a billion dollars in ticket sales.

Some of that retail change will land at Spooky World in southern New Hampshire.

It’s one of the largest Halloween attractions in the country.

New Hampshire Public Radio Reporter Sheryl Rich-Kern has the story.