Thursday, January 28, 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:

How Exercising Keeps Your Cells Young. Regular physical activity can have a profound effect on cellular aging. http://bit.ly/dkLUJw

Using ear drops to remove impacted ear wax is better than no treatment, but no particular drops can be recommended http://bit.ly/dCjcJ0

FDA approved Victoza (liraglutide), a once-daily injection to treat type 2 diabetes http://bit.ly/5b09pa

A doctor shares his own experience as a patient with LASIK and PRK http://bit.ly/9VfCgs

"Doctors who are not on Facebook, Twitter and blogs risk becoming irrelevant" - USA Today http://bit.ly/98flBN - I don't think so. Web is global but most medicine is local. For example, a nephrologist thought Twitter would be a useful tool for promoting his practice but it did not work: http://bit.ly/6uOP3W - Medicine is still local.

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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