- The use of radiotherapy in the treatment of patients with Merkel cell carcinoma appeared to be well tolerated in a group of site-specific patients with adverse features, according to the results of a study conducted at MSKCC.
- In a paper published in Nature, MSKCC researchers show that the zinc finger protein Ars2 is necessary and sufficient to promote NSC [neural stem cell] self-renewal, and does so by positively regulating the expression of Sox2.
- Lead Investigator Nancy Lee, MD of MSKCC and her team reported that over 90% of patients treated with a combination of the widely used anti-cancer drug bevacizumab with standard chemo-radiation therapy survived for 2 years with no distant metastases and that the disease did not progress in 75% of patients.
Blog Buzz: January 1 – January 6
Blogging right into 2012…
- A new study looks at survival disparities based on patient’s Medicaid status. Read about it in The Washington Post and Cancer.
- There is a lot of news on recent challenges to Open Access in Congress. See these items in The Atlantic, on Wired Science Blogs, and Scholarly Kitchen. No doubt there will be more on this issue coming soon!
- However…there is an extension on the government’s call for comments on public access to digital data from federally funded research. Please comment by the 12th of January!
- Several BMJ studies have found that unpublished info in medicine may bias evidence-based information. See this opinion from Scientific American’s Observations blog and this item in Forbes .
- Michelle Kraft blogged about a new forum for Medical Librarians to discuss mobile devices and apps at KraftyLibrarian.
DailyMedPlus Now Available From Library Website
DailyMedPlus has been added to the list of databases on the Library’s Website.
DailyMedPlus is an integrated prescribing information portal. It allows users to navigate information repositories of the National Library of Medicine, the Food and Drug Administration and Veterans Administration. As of 2011, the database includes over 90,000 unique products from over 3,000 manufacturers.