The “New & Interesting” series is a biweekly compilation of select research findings, news articles, and random tidbits in bullet-point format. The entries are highly abbreviated, but provide links to the original articles or abstracts if you desire to read further.

General Articles

• Students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently received $500,000 in funding support from the American Heart Association (AHA) for the development of a CPR training program using the Wii-mote of the Nintendo Wii game system. (UAB)

• Phineas Gage … his life after the accident (LA Times)

• Fake bus stop to catch wayward Alzheimer’s patients (Telegraph)

• FDA approves the vaccine for the 2009-2010 influenza season (FDA)

• Chinese researchers grow live mice from skin cells (Reuters)

• A common bacterial pathogen known as Klebsiella may be the cause of colic in infants (UT Houston)

Technical Articles

• Sensitivity of capsule endoscopy for detecting colonic lesions is low compared to that of traditional optical colonoscopy (NEJM)

• A meta-analysis of 6 studies, involving 6695 patients, showed that eradication of Helicobacter pylori may reduce the risk of gastric cancer (Ann Intern Med)