Saturday, January 30, 2010

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:

Preoperative cardiac stress testing associated with improved one year survival and length of hospital stay if RCRI higher than 1 http://bit.ly/9WTjxQ

Among Internet users, 5% participated in online support group, 7% reported blogging, 23% used a social networking site http://bit.ly/c1rsRt

Stillbirth Linked To Gum Disease In Pregnant Mothers http://bit.ly/bPGsdW

Higher Ambulatory Care Co-payments Decrease Outpatient Visits but Increase Hospitalizations among the Elderly http://bit.ly/aaFLSU

Study: Doctors Reduce Working Hours As Medical Malpractice Risk Rises http://bit.ly/bFBpMG

What You Eat After Exercise Matters: Eating a low-carbohydrate meal may maximize the health benefits of exercise. http://bit.ly/bJmuWq

The Lancet: Commercially sponsored supplements are now firmly off this journal's agenda. http://bit.ly/d7xDlm

Combination lithium plus valproate or lithium alone more likely to prevent bipolar relapse than valproate monotherapy http://bit.ly/caONyx

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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