This week on the web, a young patient’s update on life with cancer, open access news, Windows 8, and more…

Suleika Jaouad writes a poignant new update for her “Life, Interrupted” column about living with cancer on NY Times’ Well blog.

UCSF has announced an open access policy!

There is an excellent post on the BioMed Central Blog about the Open Access Petition on the We the People website.

The Windows 8 Release Preview is out…and there is lots of coverage. Here is some from the Washington Post.

Hack (Higher) Education reports that etextbook publisher Inkling has a new HTML5 app making their books available on the web.

Catching my eye on the internet this week…

Jody at the blog Women With Cancer sums up recent findings in the field of breast cancer, which include some potential for big changes in treatment, in her post Between the Headlines. You choose.

Check out the ASCO 2012 preview post from Sally Church with video rundown of the posters and sessions she’s watching.

The Percolator, a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, touches on how science is communicated to a popular audience in Scoring the Showdown between a Scientist and a Storyteller

Ezra Klein on Wonk Blog from the Washington Post discusses a recent house bill that he feels will politicize NSF funding.

Mobile patient portals, organ donation on Facebook, what those stats were really saying, open access news and baby sea otters…in the brave new fuzzy world of blog buzz.

Kaiser Permanente rolled out a patient EMR app for Androids (with over 99,000 downloads!!) last week and has now introduced an iOS app, reports MobiHealthNews.

What did the stats behind news reports of infections causing 16% of cancers really mean? A great explanation of population attributable fractions from Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science.

Dr. Bertalan Meskó over at Science Roll was underwhelmed by the response to the Facebook organ donor drive, but one might wonder if Facebook profiles are the place for any medical or legal information.

The publisher of PLoS One is leaving to work on a new Open Access project, PeerJ, launching in Fall 2012.

And some very cute videos are waiting for you in Joanne Manaster’s review of Otter 501 at Scientific American’s blogs.