Monday, February 1, 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 bullet-point format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

20% of the objects in a pediatric office contaminated with respiratory viral RNA, most commonly picornavirus RNA http://bit.ly/cQac6u

Study: Distractions, not phones, cause car crashes. "Hands-free device are no less risky than using a handheld phone" http://bit.ly/a7IyKA

Virtual P.E. hits gym - he played a fierce tennis match until it was time to pass the game controller to someone else http://bit.ly/aIZaMM

Another Facebook disaster: Photos of drinking, grinning aid mission doctors in Haiti cause uproar - CNN http://bit.ly/cdPzlK


F.D.A. Aims at Doctors’ Drug Pitches - NYTimes http://bit.ly/a2Psgo

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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