Daily Rounds: Blood Test For Brain Injury; Lying CEO's; Female Viagra Trial Stopped; Faith For Health? Partying With Caritas, Obama

Army finds simple blood test to identify mild brain trauma - USATODAY.com "The Army says it has discovered a simple blood test that can diagnose mild traumatic brain damage or concussion, a hard-to-detect injury that can affect young athletes, infants with "shaken baby syndrome" and combat troops." (USA Today)

How To Tell When A CEO Is Lying : NPR The researchers say "lying executives tend to overuse words like "we" and "our team" when they talk about their company. They avoid saying "I."' (npr.org)

Medical News: Company Halts 'Female Viagra' Development - in Product Alert, Prescriptions from MedPage Today "The German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim announced it is halting development of flibanserin (Girosa), a pill to treat female hypoactive sexual-desire disorder. The decision to stop development of the drug dubbed "female Viagra" or "pink Viagra" follows.. an FDA advisory committee (meeting) during which the panel voted 9 to 2 that flibanserin doesn't seem to work any better at increasing female sexual desire than placebo." (medpagetoday.com)

Healing faith? - The Boston Globe "Women who read Scripture passages and prayed together during their classes — and set goals for themselves — walked farther and potentially had lower blood pressure than women whose sessions didn’t emphasize faith." (Boston Globe)

Caritas CEO hosting fund-raiser with Barack Obama - BostonHerald.com "Though several Democrats said de la Torre has shown little interest in the party, he is a friend of DSCC chairman and New Jersey senator Bob Menendez, with whom he shares Cuban roots. He has also been a public advocate of national health care reform." (Boston Herald)