Blog Buzz: January 15 – January 21

News from the information, life sciences, and oncology blogosphere:

  • Bora at Scienceblogging.com has created a wonderful compendium of feeds from major science blog aggregators like Nature blogs and Science blogs. Check them out!
  • MassGenomics continues its essay series on the biochemical impacts of cancer on various physiological systems: this week’s piece on cancer’s effects on the immune system is a detailed essay that clearly synthesizes research from a variety of labs into a readable article. Highly recommended.
  • Human versus automated search: why people power is cool again.
  • Therese Bevers MD answered frequently asked questions about menopause and cancer on KevinMD.
  • An NCI study predicts that cancer care costs could hit $207 billion by 2020.
  • The Scholarly Kitchen commented on a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that suggested that scientists do not properly cite prior studies in RCTs in order to boost claims of research novelty.