Blog posts of interest from the worlds of oncology, medical librarianship and beyond:

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington, D.C., was enthusiastically covered by bloggers. A couple of posts of interest: Boing Boing highlights, Science News briefs.
• “iPad use by medical residents gets rave reviews, increases productivity” (via Clinical Cases and Images)
• Harvard scientists create $200 mini-NMR device that outputs to a smart phone that can diagnose cancer better than traditional methods. Read the paper in Science Translational Medicine or listen to a podcast interview with the creators.
• A new evidence-based medicine resource was unveiled this week. PROSPERO is a prospective registry of systematic reviews in progress, allowing researchers to compare the final findings of systematic reviews with their initial plans.
• Derrick tweets his day from a pre-paid cellphone (NYTimes link). He’s homeless. A creative use of social media for social good? Blog buzz likes this.

Roundup of interesting news from the medical library, oncology, life sciences and informatics blogosphere:

• iPad radiology app wins FDA approval in breakthrough for mobile imaging.
• New trends in public/private drug development partnerships received some press this week: Facultyof1000 as well as open data advocate John Wilbanks both weighed in on the findings of a New England Journal of Medicine article on the topic.
• Elsevier has developed a new SciVerse app for oncologists called My Oncology Articles. “My Oncology Articles application tracks and displays articles from Elsevier’s 20+ leading oncology journals on a bi-weekly basis.” via MDAnderson Cancer Center Library’s NewsBytes.
• MassGenomics posted about a new study from the Sanger Institute that documented a phenomenon called chromothripsis, in which hundreds of cancer-causing chromosomal rearrangements occur in a one-time cellular crisis, rather than progressively over time.
• The Dirty Little Secrets of Search (and why you might want to Ask a Librarian to help you find the most current and evidence-based research).

A roundup of this week’s blog posts of interest in medical librarianship, bioinformatics, oncology and life sciences research.

• Stumbled across a rad blog called Nursing Research: Show me the evidence! from the nursing research staff at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange, CA.
• A welcome addition to the blogosphere: Scimago Labs now has a blog! Topics will include “important issues relating to research evaluation, quantitative analysis of scientific information, scientometrics news and so on.” Looking forward to more posts on bibliometrics and scientometrics from the experts at Scimago.
• Big Data is becoming a Big Problem: a special issue of Science and an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discuss problems and solutions regarding the preservation and sharing of scientific data sets in a range of disciplines.
• Cameron Neylon summed up some interesting experimental uses of Twitter as a laboratory recording system.