Blog Buzz: March 5 – March 11

Blog posts and news of interest from the oncology, information science and medical library blogosphere:

House subcommittee on Communications and Technology has voted to disapprove the FCC’s recently-enacted net neutrality rules. The resolution still has to pass through the democratically controlled Senate.
A new article in The Surgeon discusses ways the “modern day surgeon” can leverage the iPhone into her daily practice. (MSKCC does not have subscription access to this article, but you can place a document delivery request for PMID 21195331 here).
Nature blogger Nicholas Fanget provided evidence from the Nature archives of what is possibly one of the world’s first LOLcatz.
Dr. Len’s Cancer Blog posted about the rising numbers of amazing cancer survivors among us.

Cancer Research News: February 15 – March 1

In an ABC health video, Dr. Richard Besser shares information from two recent studies about the safety of cell phone use. A study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows that 50 min. of cell phone use does correlate with increased brain metabolism. However, a 9 year study from the UK seems to indicate that cell phone use does not increase the risk of brain cancer.
Lance Armstrong campaigns for a tobacco tax initiative to fund cancer research.
Karen Basen-Engquist of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center blogs about how exercise can prevent cancer.
Dan Bowman at FierceMobileHealthcare blogs about how a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a micro-NMR that delivers results to a smart phone app that might enable tumors to be identified by the patient’s bedside within 60 minutes.
Dr. Kenneth Lin blogs about the politics surrounding the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force revote on prostate cancer screening on March 10th and 11th.

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.