• New MS genes after 30 year hunt
    [BBC News]
    The paper at NEJM: Risk Alleles for Multiple Sclerosis Identified by a Genomewide Study
  • President Bush Presents Awards to 2005 and 2006 National Medal of Science and Technology Recipients [The White House]
    More from the press release:

    2006 National Medal of Technology to Leslie A. Geddes, for his contributions to electrode design and tissue restoration, which have led to the widespread use of a wide variety of clinical devices. His discoveries and inventions have saved and enriched thousands of lives and have formed the cornerstone of much of the modern implantable medical device field.

  • Trials start on new TB vaccine
    [BBC News]
  • Inhaling bubbles to fight lung cancer
    [Nanowerk]
  • IBM’s Open Standards Push Moves Into Medical Equipment Manufacturing — And Beyond
    [IndustryWeek]
  • The future of medicine: Insert chip, cure disease?
    [University of Florida]

    • 43654llig Ins and Outs

  • New lens device will shrink huge light waves to pinpoints
    [University of Michigan]
  • A new brake on cellular energy production discovered
    [Karolinska Institutet]
  • Breaking: Hip and knee replacements rarely performed in patients over 100
    [Arthritis Care & Research]
  • Revealed: why slim people dislike the overweight
    [The Independent]
  • Breaking: Crack pipe providers could lose funding: Ottawa councillor
    [CBC News]