In news from the blogs;

• There has been a lot going on at the Supreme Court –  human gene patents have been thrown out, but most attention seems to have been focused on the healthcare reform case. Here is the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein on three ways the court could rule against the mandate.
• Big news on big data—the NIH put the world’s largest set of data on human genetic variation, The 1000 Genomes Project, on Amazon’s cloud, and the White House announced a big data initiative (see the NY Times story).
• In honor of Thursday’s House hearings on open access to federally funded research (which were summed up on Wired Campus), consider a thought-provoking February post by T. Scott Pluchak (who testified) called We can do better than FRPPA.

Splashy headlines reporting a study on red meat consumption have been in the news this week, and the NCI tweeted their factsheet on chemicals in meat cooked at high temperatures.

Those with an interest in Health IT, mobile technology in medicine, and teleheath should check out the latest GrandRounds post from Barbara Ficarra.

Josh Herigon offers advice on how medical students and residents can use social media to further their careers.

And just for fun (ok, actually this may provide important clues to how our brains process rewards), Ed Yong on how Rejected flies turn to booze 

Some items of note this week:

In White Coat Notes from The Boston Globe, Chelsea Conaboy covers the recent Rand study associating increased costs with electronic health records.

iMedical Apps discusses ways the newest iPad’s features can be used by doctors, and also reports that Happtique is developing a certification system to vet medical apps.

SearchEngineLand covers a new Pew report’s findings on public attitudes to personalized search. The full Pew report on Search Engine Use is here.