• Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption… [Marcia Angell @ The New York Review of Books]
  • Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan… [WaPo]
  • Why Insurers Pay Certain Massachusetts Hospitals More … [WSJ]
  • Sun Sets on Drug-Company Pens in Doctors’ Offices … [WSJ]
  • The Year in Materials… [MIT Tech Review]
  • The Year in Biomedicine… [MIT Tech Review]
  • St. Jude Medical Acquires MediGuide… [St. Jude Medical ]
    MediGuide flashbacks: Medical Position System (MPS) from MediGuide: GPS for Cath ; G-Wire: Visually Positioned Guidewire for Faster, Safer Procedures
  • St. Jude Medical Acquires Radi Medical Systems… [St. Jude Medical]
  • Same Genes Help Snails and Humans Tell Left from Right… [HHMI]
  • Scientists Reveal Structure of New Botulism Nerve Toxin Subtype… [Brookhaven National Laboratory]
  • Researchers engineer pancreatic cell transplants to evade immune response… [Albert Einstein College of Medicine]
  • Gold particles deliver more than just glitter… [MIT]
  • New “smart” materials for the brain… [Ecoles Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne]
  • Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home… [AP]
  • Interview with Robert Taub, the Hebrew student who sold his firm for $438 million… [Globes]
  • Human beings are born with numbers on the brain… [The Economist]
  • Foreign Accents, Alien Hands and Other Medical Oddities… [WSJ]
  • Ireland too grey for the burqa… [Times Online]