Thursday, February 4, 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:

Have a Medical Question? Text a Group of Doctors - NYTimes http://bit.ly/d7sC9m - Doctors earn $10 per answered question at http://truthoncall.com --  "Some doctors have used Twitter to ask questions about a perplexing case & get responses from doctors they do not know". UnitedHealth offers 10-minute, one-on-one doctor visits over video chat for $45 http://bit.ly/c6Tz7G

After inventing a new disease, Wii-itis, the NEJM continues its fascination with Wii Video Game Injuries http://bit.ly/9KC6qV

Americans are less healthy than 10 years ago, shows national survey - BMJ http://goo.gl/QCZA

FDA approves Auxilium injections for Dupuytren's disease, currently the most common treatment is surgery http://bit.ly/bHE9Pp

A Moroccan 'dentist' displays his instruments at the Djemaa el Fna market in Marrakesh http://bit.ly/aZMdES   

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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