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:

Darusentan, an endothelin-receptor antagonist, is a new drug for high blood pressure. Darusentan reduces blood pressure in patients who have not attained treatment goal with 3 or more antihypertensives http://bit.ly/153pdq

Antivirals did not provide added benefit compared with steroids alone in patients with Bell’s palsy http://bit.ly/2dm6Q

Only 13% of doctors would choose to disclose mental illness to another health professional http://bit.ly/FYjeN

What doctors earn in the UK: 7 doctors at different stages in their careers talk candidly about their income http://bit.ly/EUzNe

University of Chicago researcher dies from infection possibly caused by plague he was studying http://bit.ly/Wht9e

Social networking sites: a novel portal for communication http://bit.ly/18VTdc - The authors made some too optimistic conclusions.

Growing number of drug makers are offering coupons that help reduce the out-of-pocket costs of some prescription drugs http://bit.ly/1fPVJ0

A patient chronicles their anaphylactic reaction to a wasp sting on Flickr http://bit.ly/fne4G - Not safe and definitely not a recommended thing to do.

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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Twitter Etiquette, Top 10 Dos and Don'ts of Twitter - http://bit.ly/N6XtJ

What level of Twitter user are you? http://bit.ly/2fYVml

"How to Turn Your Camera Phone into a Police-Style Dash Cam" http://bit.ly/qdj8N

Sydney international food festival: food flag ads http://bit.ly/WEjKW

Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences" http://bit.ly/1w9Qz

Bent Objects Promo Video http://bit.ly/G8a9C

"The eGFR Consult" - PCP refers an elderly patient to a nephrologist based solely on an eGFR determined to be abnormal http://bit.ly/3WQQS

RT @scanman "Medicolegalspeak Reports http://bit.ly/Vt2Xc My reports aren't like this. Malpractice litigation is almost non-existent here"

Scripps Clinic: What are the goals of your social media program? Is there a particular Social Network that you prefer for your hospital program? http://bit.ly/1cFdiE

Quick primer on the proper way to interact at conferences http://bit.ly/YpgJZ

A family portrait http://bit.ly/1kVDwL

Simple solution to polyuria from China Daily http://bit.ly/33ybV4

An example of a false scientific conclusion... :) http://bit.ly/wmrbG

ePatient Dave: "Give patients (that’s you) access to all their (your) data – so they can help" http://bit.ly/25CDPq

RT @Pogue: "1 million followers today. A little scary: that's more than read the Times, more than watch CNBC, more than read my books..."

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.

Texting while driving increases crash risk 23 times

From the NY Times:

Texting while driving Lifts Crash Risk by Large Margin, far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions. When the drivers texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting.

36 states do not ban texting while driving; 14 do, including Alaska, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.

95% of drivers said that texting was unacceptable behavior. Yet 21% had recently texted or e-mailed while driving.

50% of drivers 16 to 24 said they had texted while driving, compared with 22% of drivers 35 to 44.





Related:
CNN: Boston trolley driver was texting at time of crash which injured 20 people http://bit.ly/11vRN6
Stay Alive, Don't Text and Drive
Americans turning their cars into wired offices claiming efficiency far outweigh the risk of a wreck. http://bit.ly/h7PdH

AT&T Don't Text While Driving Documentary (video).
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Video: How to Interview for Medical School

The videos below were created by Nova Southeastern University - College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) to help medical school applicants prepare for their interview at any medical school.


How to Interview for Medical School Part 1


How to Interview for Medical School Part 2

This video is not from NSU-COM:


How to Interview for Medical School: The three A's. ARRIVE on time; your APPEARANCE; your ATTITUDE. It's the biggest day of your working life; do it RIGHT. Prepare.

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:

Touching your nose, mouth, or eyes with your unwashed hand gives you a 31% chance at getting sick with the flu. Having a person sick with the flu cough directly into your face gives you more than a 50% chance of getting sick. Inhaling the tiny particles in the air from a flu-infected person's cough or sneeze gives you a 17% chance of infection http://bit.ly/1YU9E

Medical Editors Push for Ghostwriting Crackdown - called "ghostbusting" http://bit.ly/4hmUmb

A 50-year-old smoker with high blood pressure and high cholesterol can expect to die a decade earlier. 3 major risk factors (smoking, HTN, HLP) recorded on a single occasion in middle aged men = 10 years shorter life http://bit.ly/5o2HM

Inhaled Utensil Removed From the Lung of a Patient. The source: Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers http://bit.ly/1KTfk4

Caring for aging parents can quickly put the savings of adult children in jeopardy. NYT http://bit.ly/2sjirn

Farm waste is the biggest polluter of American rivers and is largely unregulated http://bit.ly/3I8NZF

Photos of boxers before and after fight http://bit.ly/2JyATN

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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RT @jeffjarvis chronicles his prostate cancer surgery and encounter with the big robot: http://bit.ly/ojyi5

Doctors and dictation errors: http://bit.ly/3l8MxN

Dr. Charles Analyzes the Hippocratic Oath http://bit.ly/j2TOj - See who's most famous doctor in history of medicine http://bit.ly/363YDB

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.

Misleading Headline and Story on Anxiety and Dementia

"Staying Calm 'Prevents Dementia," is the headline on a BBC article today. Seems like an innocuous headline but in fact it is both wrong and misleading.As a group, older people who scored as "calm and relaxed" in their answers to a survey had a 50% lower risk of developing dementia over the next six years, the BBC reported. (There's another no-no: giving a relative risk figure without giving the