Saturday, July 18, 2009

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

  • Golimumab helps rheumatoid arthritis who had previously "failed" one or more TNF inhibitors. http://bit.ly/3pPPb9

  • Interferon gamma-1b did not improve survival for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis http://bit.ly/14ilVj

  • Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners. Condom use essential for prevention http://bit.ly/HgvUO

  • Lancet Clinical Picture: Man develops hypersomnolence with daily sleep duration of 20 h after nail-gun brain injury http://bit.ly/DJLgt

  • Strenuous Exercise Linked to Memory Loss in Women http://bit.ly/phgWc

  • Testosterone patch and growth hormone injection improve body composition and muscle performance in older men http://bit.ly/Upnkv

  • PubMed abstract: "Unusual transmission route of Lymphogranuloma venereum" http://bit.ly/15JuTs via http://bit.ly/3tvhM

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source/links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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