I predict that 2011 will be an exciting year for staff as well as clients. This prediction is largely based on some of the goals we have outlined for the year that will certainly impact our user community.
Blog Buzz: January 15 – January 21
News from the information, life sciences, and oncology blogosphere:
- Bora at Scienceblogging.com has created a wonderful compendium of feeds from major science blog aggregators like Nature blogs and Science blogs. Check them out!
- MassGenomics continues its essay series on the biochemical impacts of cancer on various physiological systems: this week’s piece on cancer’s effects on the immune system is a detailed essay that clearly synthesizes research from a variety of labs into a readable article. Highly recommended.
- Human versus automated search: why people power is cool again.
- Therese Bevers MD answered frequently asked questions about menopause and cancer on KevinMD.
- An NCI study predicts that cancer care costs could hit $207 billion by 2020.
- The Scholarly Kitchen commented on a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that suggested that scientists do not properly cite prior studies in RCTs in order to boost claims of research novelty.