Ins and Outs

For your consideration, here are the latest hand-picked links that didn’t make to our posts:

Losing weight may pollute the blood … [New Scientist]

Stem cell plaintiffs blast NIH chief, question total funding freeze … [Nature Blogs]

US stem-cell chaos felt abroad … [Nature]

FDA has App Stores Under Surveillance … [jkOnTheRun]

In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer … [nytimes.com]

How Much Does Defensive Medicine Cost? One Study Says $46 Billion … [WSJ]

Social media pose ethical unknowns for doctors … [American Medical News]

Medtronic Launches Resolute Integrity Drug-Eluting Stent In Europe … [Medtronic]

UK red tape bars iPhone medical devices … [mobihealthnews]

WideMed sleep monitor granted CE Mark … [Globes]

Brainsway signs with Montreal’s McGill University … [Globes]

Vocera’s Expanding Mobile Health Care Services for Smartphones … [Enterprise Mobile Today]

Bristol-Myers agrees to buy ZymoGenetics … [AP]

St. Jude Medical Signs Equity Investment and Option to Purchase Agreement with CardioMEMS … [St. Jude Medical]

Research yields promising malaria drug candidate … [NIH]

Study shows how insulin stimulates fat cells to take in glucose … [NIH]

Production of Sticky Proteins May Explain How Malaria Evades the Immune System … [HHMI]

Researchers decode function and protein content of the centrosome … [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science]

DNA-assisted solution processing for high-performance thin-film transistors … [Nanowerk]

Prostate cancer screening: current status and future perspectives… [Nature Reviews Urology]

Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits … [nytimes.com]

Johns Hopkins Investigates: Race, Insurance Status Cited In Uneven Death Rates Among Pedestrians Hit By Cars… [Johns Hopkins]

Reading Arabic ‘hard for brain’ … [BBC]

Magic mushrooms reduce anxiety over cancer … [New Scientist]