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.

• NYT: Where’s the Rulebook for Sex Verification? The gene SRY on Y chromosome turns fetus into male, but SRY can show up on an X, turning an XX fetus essentially male http://bit.ly/JhKP8
  
  
• Urbanization - An Emerging Humanitarian Disaster: world’s population living in urban areas crossed the 50% mark in 2008 http://bit.ly/J8Zxq
  
  
• Britons complain endlessly about the National Health Service but get a bit touchy when outsiders are the critics. http://bit.ly/Wf0X0
  
  
• Do patients really need their complete lab and radiology reports? http://bit.ly/Ik9kd - I think so. Dr. Rob and KevinMD seem to disagree.
  
  
• The Medical Beard chapter, from the book One thousand beards: a cultural history of facial hair http://bit.ly/Jsbm4
  
  

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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