Lately in the land of blogs:

• Guest blogger Lynda Sharpe contributed a fun piece on the purpose of animal play to Scientific American’s blog
• DrugMonkey discusses Grant Reductions. Sigh.
• US News Health and Oncology Journal cover a study in Cancer finding patients with access to their records are more satisfied with their treatment
• Christina’s LIS Rant has a nice post about science blogging entitled Blogs are not dead yet
• Tree of Life is compiling items about the evolving arsenic bacteria story following the recent items in Science

Lately in the blogoverse…

• @DrVes’ Clinical Cases and Images: Casesblog offers advice on Twitter for Doctors
• Max Anderson of Cornflower had this interesting post about health related uses for smart phones, and also tweeted (via @MaxLibris) this related Maternal Child Health app news and these apps
• A fun video of people making anatomical sand sculptures of the brain is making the rounds
• Aetiology discusses the preliminary research about MSRA and bedbugs getting coverage in the media
• In cultural heritage and open access news, digital images from Yale’s cultural collections are now available here and the Library of Congress has introduced  National Jukebox, an open access collection of historical recordings
• Webcasts of talks from AACR are available here

From the blog-o-sphere…

• FierceBiotech IT has a story about an open access effort called PLoS highlights online DNA “encyclopedia”.
• Laikas MedLibBlog posted an overview of the recent debate in the world of surgery with “How a Valentine’s Editorial About Chocolate & Semen Lead to the Resignation of Top Surgeon Greenfield”.
• Last week, she also linked to a talk about the e-patient movement from Tedx Maastricht by Dave deBronkart “e-Patient Dave” (about 18 minutes).
• The NY Times discusses the fight on how drugs are pitched.
• Becker’s Hospital Review has this article on iPad apps for doctors.
• The Krafty Librarian has a post about using Twitter at this year’s MLA conference, complete with recommendations for newbies.