Thursday, December 17, 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:

Every Cup of Coffee Per Day May Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes by 7%. Tea drinkers who drank more than 3-4 cups/day had 1/5 lower risk of diabetes than those who didn’t drink tea http://bit.ly/4NRfJo

People who had greater intellectual ability as children may have fewer heart disease risk factors in middle-age http://bit.ly/6cYTgT

Treating depression may help people with diabetes get their blood sugar under control. http://bit.ly/5gePQT

Fingertips get more sensitive as size decreases, study suggests, it may explain why women have more tactile acuity http://bit.ly/7upVWL

Should we find a better name for "Past Medical History"? History is by definition something that occurred in the past. From: 10 worst phrases to use at office - CNN http://bit.ly/90TUCx

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.