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

  • Losing weight may pollute the blood … [New Scientist]
  • Stem cell plaintiffs blast NIH chief, question total funding freeze … [Nature Blogs]
  • US stem-cell chaos felt abroad … [Nature]
  • FDA has App Stores Under Surveillance … [jkOnTheRun]
  • In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer … [nytimes.com]
  • How Much Does Defensive Medicine Cost? One Study Says $46 Billion … [WSJ]
  • Social media pose ethical unknowns for doctors … [American Medical News]
  • Medtronic Launches Resolute Integrity Drug-Eluting Stent In Europe … [Medtronic]
  • UK red tape bars iPhone medical devices … [mobihealthnews]
  • WideMed sleep monitor granted CE Mark … [Globes]
  • Brainsway signs with Montreal’s McGill University … [Globes]
  • Vocera’s Expanding Mobile Health Care Services for Smartphones … [Enterprise Mobile Today]
  • Bristol-Myers agrees to buy ZymoGenetics … [AP]
  • St. Jude Medical Signs Equity Investment and Option to Purchase Agreement with CardioMEMS … [St. Jude Medical]
  • Research yields promising malaria drug candidate … [NIH]
  • Study shows how insulin stimulates fat cells to take in glucose … [NIH]
  • Production of Sticky Proteins May Explain How Malaria Evades the Immune System … [HHMI]
  • Researchers decode function and protein content of the centrosome … [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science]
  • DNA-assisted solution processing for high-performance thin-film transistors … [Nanowerk]
  • Prostate cancer screening: current status and future perspectives… [Nature Reviews Urology]
  • Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits … [nytimes.com]
  • Johns Hopkins Investigates: Race, Insurance Status Cited In Uneven Death Rates Among Pedestrians Hit By Cars… [Johns Hopkins]
  • Reading Arabic ‘hard for brain’ … [BBC]
  • Magic mushrooms reduce anxiety over cancer … [New Scientist]