Some items of interest in blogland:

• With help from Nokia and custom prosthetics manufacturers, a British man had a mobile phone dock built into his prosthetic arm
• A CDC advisory committee recommended HPV vaccine for boys this week
• Happy Open Access Week! The  Royal Society has announced that the archive of  its historic journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society has been made permanently free to access online
• According to this piece by Sarah Kliff at WonkBlog, some healthcare providers may be warming to the administration’s Accountable Care Organization regulation due to compensation changes in the plan
• Meanwhile, NPR’s Shots health blog reports that Democrats have lost enthusiasm for the healthcare bill after a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that public approval has fallen

This week on the internet…

• Findings on malaria vaccine research came out this week, but some say new animal models are needed
• I came across this post on “Societal Germophobia” (which includes several additional links and citations) via @BoraZ.
• And also from Bora Zivcovic comes a great post,  What is ResearchBlogging.org explaining the research blogging style of blog posts
• Robert Krulwich has a great post musing about “Celestial Camouflage“…with a surprise twist

This week in the blog world…

Krafty Librarian writes about the announcement of the 2012/2013 MLA candidates, online voting will be from Nov 2- Dec 6.

Alisha764 asks if the unreported conflicts of interest in authors of guidelines described in a new study is due to biased guidelines or limited study?  Here is MedPage’s report on the piece, and the article in BMJ.

Laika’s MedLibLog discusses research rating different point of care tools