Saturday, November 14, 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:

Diabetes incidence in high-risk adults reduced by 58% with lifestyle intervention and by 31% with metformin. Prevention or delay of diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin can persist for at least 10 years http://bit.ly/3o4eee

Nov 14 is World Diabetes Day: 285 million people across the world are living with diabetes; 90% is type 2 http://bit.ly/2beCtl

Eating 1 dark chocolate candy bar/day reduced levels of stress hormones cortisol and catecholamines in stressed people http://bit.ly/2z0VVb

"The 7 Most Powerful People in Medicine" - Forbes http://bit.ly/C0DIj

Dr. William Ganz dies at 90; survived a Nazi labor camp, co-invented Swan-Ganz catheter http://bit.ly/2vEw3B

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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