Blogging right into 2012…

• A new study looks at survival disparities based on patient’s Medicaid status. Read about it in The Washington Post and Cancer. 
• There is a lot of news on recent challenges to Open Access in Congress. See these items in The Atlantic, on Wired Science Blogs, and Scholarly Kitchen. No doubt there will be more on this issue coming soon!
• However…there is an extension on the government’s call for comments on public access to digital data from federally funded research. Please comment by the 12th of January!
• Several BMJ studies have found that unpublished info in medicine may bias evidence-based information.  See this opinion from Scientific American’s Observations blog and this item in Forbes .
• Michelle Kraft blogged about a new forum for Medical Librarians to discuss mobile devices and apps at KraftyLibrarian.