Friday, February 5, 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:

How Many Endoscopic Exams Could You Handle? Volunteers in 6-mo study got 15 endoscopic exams each http://bit.ly/9jGzMN http://bit.ly/9PHKsr

Tens of thousands of American adults die each year from pneumonia, influenza that could be prevented by routine vaccines http://goo.gl/UqiJ

A Wii Fracture Reported in the NEJM http://bit.ly/alIIoy, 3 Years After the First Case of Acute Wiiitis http://bit.ly/dn36Yb

"The government has your baby's DNA" from samples for genetic disease screening - CNN http://goo.gl/OsvS

What Costs $282 Million an Hour? Healthcare in America. WSJ http://goo.gl/FH6y

Acute infection can trigger acute coronary syndromes - The Lancet Infectious Diseases http://goo.gl/u2ec 

Consumer Reports Rates Hospitals http://goo.gl/9COe

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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