Blog Buzz: August 6 – August 12

This week in the wide world of medical, science and librarianship blogs:

  • On The Blog That Ate Manhattan, Peggy Polaneczky, MD calls for an expansion of the NIH’s Medicine in the Media Course to encourage responsible reporting on health issues.
  • Alisha Miles is excited “Micromedex finally available in the Android Market“.
  • There is a cool thread of beautiful and iconic science images on Quora. Vote for your favorite! (Via Bertalan Mesko of ScienceRoll, whose vote is for this.)
  • An experimental treatment for leukemia and potentially other forms of cancer is generating a lot of buzz. Here is a piece from The Week and a nice post on it from Derek Lowe on In the Pipeline.