Friday, January 15, 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:

Male-oriented fitness supplements are not hard to find, but they are hard to figure out - NYT http://bit.ly/4zRTu8

Sylvester Stallone issues X-ray of neck fractured during shooting fight scenes http://j.mp/5FaZfP

Caregivers who said tending to their ailing spouse caused "a lot of strain" were 23% more likely to have a stroke http://bit.ly/4AZc3q

"Cough Trick" May Reduce Pain of Routine Pediatric Immunizations - Medscape http://bit.ly/7YkGp2 

Management of Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain and Myocardial Infarction http://bit.ly/54M3SE

Your Pet May Predict Your Personality: cat people may be more creative and dog people more outgoing. Self-identified "dog people" were 15% more extroverted, 13% more agreeable, and 11% more conscientious than cat people http://bit.ly/70ylER

"Needle in Haystack" Biomarker Elafin is likely to change the way we treat graft-vs-host-disease of the skin http://bit.ly/6qoPE4

Radiation exposure and circulatory disease risk: Doses above 0.5 Gy associated with a risk of stroke and heart disease http://bit.ly/6smZog

Patients have the right to receive their medical records.
Some CNN advice to patients: "You have to be a jerk. Get angry. File a complaint." http://bit.ly/7EYeqQ


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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