Tuesday, January 26, 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:

Nephrologists Using Social Media Connect with Far-Flung Colleagues, Health Care Consumers http://bit.ly/6uOP3W

The 2009 Medical Weblog Awards Finalists by Medgadget http://bit.ly/738YM0

Withdrawal of sibutramine leaves European doctors with just one obesity drug - BMJ http://goo.gl/mNg0

Histoptysis or oncoptysis: suggested terms for tissue expectoration of abnormal tissue leading to pulmonary diagnosis http://goo.gl/AGxk

Diuretics plus calcium channel blockers (D+CCB) were associated with a higher risk of MI than D+BB and D+ACEi http://goo.gl/Uy5r

Teen Drinking May Cause Irreversible Brain Damage - NPR http://goo.gl/BhI6

Human history: hunter-gatherer men of Europe could not compete with farmers made attractive by their new technology http://bit.ly/7NcQKo

Up to 16% of mentally healthy children and teens may hear voices - British Journal of Psychiatry http://bit.ly/4Tgqyr

Wisdom, openness and life satisfaction are positively intertwined - from the Journal of Happiness Studies http://bit.ly/7J9Kzn        

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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