Wednesday, November 25, 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:

Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with hundreds of different types of bacteria - as many as there are chemicals http://bit.ly/5ITL1p

Urinary adiponectin is a novel marker for vasculopathy in DM2 http://bit.ly/50gyUT

Confirmed: High salt intake is associated with increased risk of stroke and total cardiovascular disease. http://bit.ly/9267Ev -- The case for population-wide salt reduction to prevent cardiovascular disease gets stronger http://bit.ly/6sBdsw

The Cost of Obesity in the United States (Graphic) http://bit.ly/6xlaxM

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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