Ins and Outs

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

TCT 2010 roundup … [MassDevice]

Insurers Move to Drop Child Policies … [WSJ]

Sharp drop in medical exports should alarm Minnesota … [MedCity News]

Sanofi Blood-Vessel Drug Fails Trial … [WSJ]

Boston Scientific to Acquire Asthmatx … [Boston Scientific]

Medtronic’s Resolute Drug-Eluting Stent Shows Strong Performance in Second ‘All Comers’ Study … [Medtronic]

New Clinical Study Finds Masimo Noninvasive SpMet is Accurate Compared to Invasive Methemoglobin Testing … [Masimo]

St. Jude Medical Announces Results from Angio-Seal Evolution Vascular Closure Device Registry Subset Analysis … [St. Jude]

FDA approves first oral drug, Gilenya capsules (fingolimod), to reduce MS relapses … [FDA]

Agfa, Fuji win Defense Dept. contracts worth $54 million … [MassDevice]

Echo Therapeutics Initiates Needle-Free Biosensor Program for Continuous Lactate Monitoring … [Echo Therapeutics]

P&G to buy Israeli medical device co ConTIPI … [Globes]

TAVI Best Bet if Valve Surgery Not an Option … [MedPageToday]

SPADnet, a New Concept for Biomedical Imaging, Gets Funded … [EPFL]

An unexpected twist in cancer metabolism … [MIT]

Looking for secrets to drug addiction in our blood … [PNNL]

Do you have the chocolate gene? Study hints consumer preferences may be inherited … [SCOPE@Stanford]

Nobel predictions proliferate … [Nature Blogs]

Ape dung reveals gorilla origin of malaria … [New Scientist]

Johns Hopkins Investigates: Start of School Can Worsen Bedwetting in Children… [Johns Hopkins]