- Columbia University researchers have uncovered which regions of BRCA1 suppress tumor growth.
- The New York Times reports that high doses of a bone drug is linked to cancer.
- The New England Journal of Medicine reports on the shortage of chemotherapy drugs in the U.S.
- Details about a new melanoma screening device from the Associated Press.
- A large UK clinical trial found that aspirin reduces colorectal cancer in high risk patients.
Category Archives: In the News
Blog Buzz: October 29 – November 5
Some items of interest in blogland lately…
- Forget a better mousetrap, could there be a better lab rat? An interesting piece on animal models by Jessa Gamble of The Last Word on Nothing…
- …which is also home to Steve Jobs and the Limits of Genome Sequencing by Erika Check Hayden, just one of Ed Yong’s Science Writing I’d Pay to Read October 2011 picks
- Silly Season is a great update for those interested in current legislative and judicial news on intellectual property and copyright law from Kevin Smith at Duke University
- An interesting research blogging piece I neglected to include a few weeks ago, Laika’s MedLibLog continues her series on evidence based point of care summaries (with UpToDate and DynaMed)
- @EdwardWinstead directed his twitter followers to two posts on macrophages and cancer by Sally Church & Carmen Phillips
- A new melanoma screening device has been approved by the FDA
Blog Buzz: October 22 – October 28
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