Roundup of interesting news from the medical library, oncology, life sciences and informatics blogosphere:

• iPad radiology app wins FDA approval in breakthrough for mobile imaging.
• New trends in public/private drug development partnerships received some press this week: Facultyof1000 as well as open data advocate John Wilbanks both weighed in on the findings of a New England Journal of Medicine article on the topic.
• Elsevier has developed a new SciVerse app for oncologists called My Oncology Articles. “My Oncology Articles application tracks and displays articles from Elsevier’s 20+ leading oncology journals on a bi-weekly basis.” via MDAnderson Cancer Center Library’s NewsBytes.
• MassGenomics posted about a new study from the Sanger Institute that documented a phenomenon called chromothripsis, in which hundreds of cancer-causing chromosomal rearrangements occur in a one-time cellular crisis, rather than progressively over time.
• The Dirty Little Secrets of Search (and why you might want to Ask a Librarian to help you find the most current and evidence-based research).