• Some medical device makers acquiesce to healthcare reform tax… [MassDevice]
  • Medicare Payroll Tax May Fund Reform … [WSJ]
  • How Harry Reid’s Fiddling With the Tax Plans in the Health Bill… [WSJ]
  • Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads… [AP]
  • Who Wants to Talk to the FDA About Google and Facebook?… [WSJ]
  • Putting 22 Million Cases of Swine Flu in Context… [WSJ]
  • FDA Commissioner Addresses Nation’s Healthcare Professionals on H1N1 Vaccine… [FDA]
  • Israeli gov’t to invest $80m in biotech fund … [Globes]
  • Fidelity Investments buys a big stake in Abiomed… [MassDevice]
  • Cardiac Science and Cambridge Heart Announce Development Partnership… [Cambridge Heart]
  • Stryker spends $103 million on a pair of acquisitions… [MassDevice]
  • Making the case for Bluetooth in healthcare… [Michael Foley, Ph.D., executive director, Bluetooth SIG]
  • Teva gets FDA, court nods for generic Prevacid … [Globes]
  • Medtronic Introduces MASTERGRAFT® Strip for Spinal Surgeries… [Medtronic]
  • Medtronic Launches Global Clinical Trial Evaluating Outcomes From Comprehensive Attain® Family of Left-Heart Leads and Delivery Catheters… [Medtronic]
  • Best Buy brings health tech to 40 U.S. stores… [mobihealthnews]
  • MassDevice Q&A: American Well CEO Roy Schoenberg… [MassDevice]
  • Bisphenol A in trouble again… [Nature Blogs]
  • £4.9 million to develop metamaterials for ‘invisibility cloaks’ and ‘perfect lenses’… [Imperial College London]
  • Explained: RNA interference… [MIT]
  • Gene linked to language… [Nature]
  • Circadian Clock Implicated in Kids’ Bipolar Disorder… [MedPageToday]
  • Words, Gestures Are Translated by Same Brain Regions, Says New Research: Findings May Further Our Understanding of How Language Evolved… [NIH]
  • Common cold may hold off swine flu… [New Scientist]
  • Mechanisms of HTLV-1 persistence and transformation… [British Journal of Cancer]
  • Dynamics of HIV-1 Assembly and Release… [PLoS Pathogens]
  • A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain… [NYT]
  • American Medical Association changes policy on med marijuana… [LATimes]
  • Shocker: Doctor Visits Are Getting Longer… [WSJ]
  • Penis tissue replaced in the lab… [BBC]