Monday, January 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 a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Youngsters in the study whose parents set bedtimes of midnight or later were 24% more likely to suffer from depression http://bit.ly/679r2Q

Cheap Eyeglasses for the Poor: race is on to distribute glasses on a huge scale in world’s poorest countries http://bit.ly/88qqmp 

Walking on New Year's Eve is Risky Business: more pedestrians killed on January 1 than any other day of the year http://bit.ly/4LEeFe

Women who started having menstrual periods before age 12 may be at higher risk of developing or dying of heart disease http://bit.ly/5AfBee

Be sure to cover your eyes when hanging around with your pet tarantula: a man had spider hairs stuck in his cornea http://bit.ly/7AVDUj 

Top Empowered Patient tips for 2010 - CNN http://bit.ly/8QYs0u

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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