New findings about an ancient virus, a draft of Social Media guidelines from the FDA  for companies making Rx drugs or Medical devices, and a helpful library tool is now available for your iPhone.

• Herpes is exceptionally old, and some findings about just how old have crossed my path recently. In the NY Times, a brief covered new work on how long humans (or more accurately our evolutionary predecessors) have been infected HSV-1 (around 6 million years) and HSV-2 (about 1.2 million years). An endogenous herpes virus has been found in the Tarsier genome, more on this a post from ERV (warning, this includes an image of the above named teeny-tiny-adorably-big-eyed-primate!!) explains more, and links to the recently published paper.

• The FDA posted Draft Guidelines For Industry Internet/Social Media Platforms: Correcting Third Party Independent Misinformation About Prescription Drugs and Medical Devices  last week and welcomes comment for 90 days.

• Browzine is now available for i06!  For information on using this tool with the MSK Library collection, see our previous blog post here.