- In the Economist, Dr. Ron Depinho, the new president of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, shares his plans for curing cancers.
- A genetic study explains chemoresistance in some colorectal cancer patients.
- Women who take antiestrogen supplements may decrease their risk for melanoma.
- Navitoclax, a new drug in phase I trials, has had impressive results against hard-to-treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
Blog Buzz: January 7 – January 13
Librarians, Open Access Advocates ‘Vehemently Oppose’ Research Works Act is a great post on the response to HR 3699. There has been a huge response to this act in Twitter and the blog-o-sphere.
Richard Poynder has written about whether presses that are members of AAP can stay neutral in the debate over the bill.
On Jan 3, ExtremeTech reported that major websites like Google and Amazon were considering going black in protest of SOPA and the Atlantic posted about Reddit’s decision to go black on Jan 18.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the closure of a government biodiversity program (and invaluable database) due to budget cuts.
As one of many Google Reader users who are not fans of the new version, Alicia764 blogs about how changes designed to force people to use Google+ have broken a tool she relied on as a solo-librarian.
Do You Know? Timeline of Modern Medical Advances
Do you know when the stethoscope was invented? The Diptheria Vaccine? Penicillin?
In honor of their 200th anniversary, the New England Journal of Medicine has created an interactive timeline of modern medical discoveries.
The timeline is illustrated with photos and ephemera and lets you browse from the journal’s early years of horseback delivery to today.