Health lender citigroup buys Wachovia; Study says hormone replacement may be safe;

> The market turmoil has wreaked yet another change in the financial landscape for healthcare financial managers with the acquisition of banking company Wachovia by healthcare lending colossus Citigroup. FierceHealthFinance

> A new Danish study suggests that hormone replacement therapy might not put women at increased risk of heart disease, despite longstanding fears to this effect. FiercePharma

> Are open source electronic medical records a threat to commercial software vendors? I don't think so, but one of the country's leading health IT trade groups seems convinced that they are. FierceHealthIT

> A federal judge awarded Johnson & Johnson's cardiac device unit $1.2 billion in a longstanding battle between J&J, Boston Scientific and Medtronic over a stent device. FiercePharma

And Finally... It's a full-sized house for $1.75...no, not $1.75 million, one dollar and seventy-five cents. Article