Ins and Outs

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

Beaurocracy.gov: Acne Cream? Tax-Sheltered. Breast Pump? No. [nytimes.com]

Boston Scientific Agrees to Sell Neurovascular Business to Stryker … [Boston Scientific]

FDA clears Cymbalta to treat chronic musculoskeletal pain … [FDA]

Novel virus may have jumped from monkeys to humans … [Nature blogs]

Periwinkle plant to produce compounds that could become more effective cancer drugs … [MIT]

Portable breast scanner allows cancer detection in the blink of an eye … [The University of Manchester]

Researchers Reshape Basic Understanding of Cell Division… [Johns Hopkins]

PET Scans Reveal Estrogen-Producing Hotspots in Human Brain … [Brookhaven National Laboratory]

Cholesterol-lowering drug shrinks enlarged prostates in hamster model … [Children’s Hospital Boston]

Genetic Analysis Shows What it Takes to Control HIV Naturally … [HHMI]

Cancer Stem Cells Can’t Stand the Heat … [HHMI]

Revising the Timeline for Deadly Pancreatic Cancer … [HHMI]

Severe sepsis associated with later cognitive, physical decline … [NIH]

First Direct Evidence that Response to Alcohol Depends on Genes … [Brookhaven National Laboratory]

Why complex life probably evolved only once … [New Scientist]

Blood group ‘affects fertility’ … [BBC]

The Baby Boomer’s Dilemma: Medical Marijuana Raises Tough Questions for Nursing Homes … [nytimes.com]

A piece of their mind … [Macleans]