Friday, August 21, 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.

  • Lack of sunshine may cloud memory and other cognitive functions in some people with depression. Sunshine-cognition link not seen in adults without depression http://bit.ly/IyRYz

  • PLoS to use Google Knol for rapid open sharing of scientific data: PLoS Currents: Influenza http://bit.ly/4uvdPE and http://bit.ly/mvO0m

  • Mathematical model might suggest that flu shot guidelines got their priorities wrong http://bit.ly/4ezFq

  • Heart rate monitored hypothermia and drowning in a 48-year-old man http://bit.ly/Fjp9R - Happy outcome, see the PDF.

  • A tablet PC in the ward, a tablet PC, a computer on wheels (COW), an ergonomic COW - Which one is preferred by doctors? http://bit.ly/KOgFI

  • WaPost: "Physicians have been cast as the villains in the drama that our national health-care debate has become." http://bit.ly/IoVmz

  • Does Exercise Reduce Your Cancer Risk? http://bit.ly/18giFl

  • "If jealous - women try to win men back, while men walk out to protect esteem" - CNN http://bit.ly/1Mm5K

  • South Africa rallies to defense its new world champion who has been told by athletics officials to prove she is female http://bit.ly/P4Bs1

  • Candlelight, Toluene And You: Hazardous to your health? http://bit.ly/VOp61

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) is not an endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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