Saturday, January 16, 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:

Patients have the right to receive their medical records. Some CNN advice to patients: "You have to be a jerk. Get angry. File a complaint." http://bit.ly/7EYeqQ

91% of primary care physicians are satisfied with medicine as a career? http://bit.ly/5xoSUx

Study: The scent of an ovulating woman is enough to trigger a surge of testosterone in men http://bit.ly/5aZkNZ

HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, detected in 64% of college couples http://bit.ly/5lAlcO

Worlds apart: The moment the tallest man meets the smallest for the first time http://bit.ly/7GTmxV - It's just hard to believe...


How many drugs the FDA approves in a given year? Most people guess in the hundreds. In fact, it’s normally 18-26. http://bit.ly/5dscoO


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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