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:

Coffee May Have Some Health Perks, but Can Brew Trouble in People With Certain Conditions. Coffee is the second most widely traded commodity in the world, after oil http://bit.ly/7SpcHy

Zinc Fingers May be a New Way to Edit DNA and Give Hope for Gene Therapy. Zinc fingers can be deployed as a word processing system for cutting and pasting genetic text (DNA) http://bit.ly/6eATaP

"A burger or fried chicken with a side of diabetes?" How fast food increases BMI and diabetes risk:  Women who ate fast food burgers or fried chicken twice a week were 40-70% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes http://bit.ly/6gmq3c

Wedding ring dermatitis: Till Dermatitis Do Us Part http://bit.ly/5aXM3c

Never too late to quit smoking: heart attack survivors who quit live longer than those who keep puffing away http://bit.ly/6HNZ6e

Household Transmission of 2009 H1N1 Influenza: contacts less than 18 years of age were twice as susceptible as 19-50 yr http://bit.ly/4wixBm

Activated Protein C for Sepsis: clinical benefit and recommendations are controversial. http://bit.ly/6SfYj0

How McDonald's makes sure its burgers are safe: a glimpse into the world of extreme food safety - USA Today http://bit.ly/7aaz0K 

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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From my Twitter account:

Picturing the Past 10 Years - NYTimes http://bit.ly/5UQKJB

How to use social networking in your doctor job hunt - AMA News http://bit.ly/5zVDyQ

Free courses from top universities now easier to find: http://bit.ly/82UERR

102-year old Merle Phillips decided to retire. This gives her more time to write that 11th book: http://bit.ly/4TDgou

Top Google Apps in 2009 - a list of Google services that were launched or were significantly improved in 2009 http://bit.ly/4rpebz

Who did Google make cry this year? 9 startup dreams & industries Google crushed in 2009 http://bit.ly/4ZGP3k

Most popular "Top 5" of everything topics for 2009 by LifeHacker http://bit.ly/5ki2tC

Dr. RW started his new edition of Top 10 issues in hospital medicine for 2009 http://bit.ly/7fQBhp, see the 2008 edition: http://bit.ly/6JViT9  

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North Carolina's "Bicycle Man"

Originally posted at the AWEARNESS blog

I am a sucker for holiday news stories that pull at your heart. Last week when I was at my dad's house for Christmas a news story zipped by on the TV that made me go "huh?" Luckily it was in the morning paper! "Moses Mathis, who for 19 years has repaired bicycles and then given them away at Christmas, set a record this year by fixing more than 1,100 bikes."
Isn't that awesome? To see video of an interview with Mathis about his bicycle outreach, visit The Fayetteville Observer's website (the video was un-embeddable here, unfortunately).

If you want to help Mathis give away even more bicycles in 2010, head on over to his website!

Post-traumatic stress disorder and women

Originally posted at the AWEARNESS blog

Warning: This involves a bit of a spoiler of the movie "Brothers"

Jim Sheridan's latest film "Brothers" gives post-traumatic stress disorder a higher profile this holiday season with an amazing performance by Tobey Maguire. The movie depicts Maguire as a Marine who is shot down in Afghanistan, held prisoner, and then returns home after being declared dead. Maguire's character returns to a home where his wife and daughters have tried to move on -- with the help of his brother. Suspicion runs high, fueled by his PTSD and guilt, that his wife and brother are now lovers. The movie ends in an emotional crescendo that is worthy of all the actors and rather than leave us totally depressed over the situation, gives us a bit of hope.

I clung to that hope at the end of the film a bit fiercely, perhaps because it seems that while PTSD gets a lot of attention in the media, we still read stories of veterans becoming homeless and/or addicted to drugs due to their inability to find help recovering/dealing with PTSD.

Yet as we are bringing PTSD out of the shadows for veterans, we are still behind on how to deal with PTSD when it comes to women.

In the January 2010 issue of Marie Claire Jennifer Crane tells her PTSD story to Lynn Harris. In it she describes the nightmares and the drugs, but what really struck me was how the VA hospital she went to for help kicked her out saying "the treatment wasn't really helping [her] - although [she] disagreed - that as one of only two women in the group, [she] was distracting to the male patients, who apparently found [her] attractive." Jennifer begged to stay to no avail and with nowhere else to turn, found herself at her drug dealer's home. There is a happy ending... Jennifer was able to kick her habit and now has a small child. Still, the happy ending in no way justifies the unjust treatment Jennifer received because of her gender and physical appearance.

Considering that women currently make up 15% of the military and 1 in 10 of our troops in Iraq, the amount of PTSD we will see in women coming home will only increase. Yes, including women in the military will create new issues, as we are seeing with pregnancy, but let's address the issues, not blame women. Women are a vital and important part of our military, and we cannot send them home without proper treatment.

What is the radiation exposure from full-body scans used for airport security screening?

There are 2 types of full-body scanner machines that use "weak" X-rays and radio waves respectively:

- Backscatter radiation X-ray full-body scanners. The image looks like a chalk drawing (shown right).

- "Millimeter wave" (radio wave) full-body scanners. The image looks like a fuzzy photo negative.

Backscatter radiation X-ray full-body scanners

The older type of full-body scanners use so-called backscatter radiation to scan the entire body to detect foreign objects. Passengers will be directed to stand against a refrigerator-size backscatter machine as a "pencil-thin" X-ray beam rapidly scans them to produce textured "charcoal outlines" of their bodies. The backscatter uses a narrow, low-intensity X-ray beam that scans the entire body at a high speed. The X-ray is not strong enough to penetrate much beyond the skin, so it cannot find weapons that may be hidden in body cavities.

The amount of radiation used during this scan is equal to 15 minutes of exposure to natural background radiation such as the sun's rays. One scan emits less than 10 microrem, the unit used to measure radiation. Comparably, an hour on an airplane at a high altitude exposes a passenger to 300 microrem, and the average person is exposed to 1,000 microrem of radiation over the course of a normal day.

Thirty hours of airplane travel is the equivalent of one chest X-ray (CXR) - an important health warning for frequent flyers.

A backscatter X-ray scan gives a person as much radiation as he or she would get from two minutes of flying in an airplane at 30,000 feet. A traveler would have to undergo more than a thousand scans in a year to equal one standard chest X-ray.

Dr. Albert J. Fornace Jr., an expert in molecular oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center, said such a low dose was inconsequential, even for pregnant women. “Obviously, no radiation is even better than even a very low level,” Dr. Fornace said. “But this is trivial.” But David J. Brenner, a professor of radiation oncology at Columbia University, said that even though the risk for any individual was extremely low, he would still avoid it.

"Millimeter wave" (radio wave) full-body scanners

The newer type of scanners, called a "millimeter wave" machine, doesn't use radiation. It uses electromagnetic waves to create an image based on energy reflected from the body. According to the TSA these devices deliver 10,000 times less energy than a person's cell phone.

The millimeter wave machine works like this: A person walks into a large portal that resembles a that resembles a glass elevator (9 feet tall and 6 feet wide), pauses and lifts his or her arms while the machine takes two scans using radio waves. The scans take 1.8 seconds, and it takes about a minute for the image to appear on a computer screen in a separate location.

Privacy concerns

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) promises no one will see the revealing images except trained security agents staring at computer screens in a nearby room. The body scans will be deleted after 12 seconds.

Special “privacy” software intentionally blurs the image, creating an outline of a body that is clear enough to see a collarbone, bellybutton or weapon, but flattens details of revealing contours.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have raised objections, calling the X-ray scan a “virtual strip-search.”

References:

Airport Scanner Radiation Risks Are Minimal, Government Report Says - NYTimes, 2012.
TSA to Conduct New Study on Safety of X-Ray Body Scanners http://goo.gl/r6Kfl
Dutch to use full body scans for U.S. flights. CNN.
New Airport X-Rays Scan Bodies, Not Just Bags. NYT.
For their eyes only? Boston Globe.
Manufacturer says full body scanners at airports are a valuable tool in fighting terror. The Plain Dealer.
Body-scan machine eyed for airports. AP.
Manchester airport trials naked-image security scans. Guardian.
Radiation risk low with whole-body airport scanners. Reuters, 2010.
New Airport Scanners: Radiation Risk Tiny. WebMD, 2010.
Image source: Wikipedia, backscatter X-ray, US Transportation Security Administration part of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, public domain.

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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:

Hemoglobin A1C Blood Test Now Recommended for Diabetes Diagnosis http://bit.ly/5WJIfO

The Middle-Aged Heart: The level of LDL cholesterol jumps an average of 10% in the years around menopause http://bit.ly/6m5DVc

Cardiologists sue U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius over Medicare fee cuts http://bit.ly/4njr31
Wedding ring dermatitis: Till Dermatitis Do Us Part http://bit.ly/5aXM3c

How McDonald's makes sure its burgers are safe: a glimpse into the world of extreme food safety - USA Today http://bit.ly/7aaz0K 

Is Twitter a "must" for doctors, asks Medscape http://bit.ly/5s14Or - No, it is not.

"Medical errors kill 98,000 people a year: 98000reasons.org, calls it equivalent to two 737s crashing every day" - NYT http://bit.ly/8DiU8F

NYT on Anguish of Litigation - Doctor: "My mood turned from stoic resignation to a toxic muck of apathy and irritation" http://bit.ly/4HBQlp -- RT @rlbates "Why we need tort reform: Read comment #10 on the NYT article. Wow." http://bit.ly/5hIh2Z  

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CNN Video: School Lunch Nutrition Worse Than Fast-Food Restaurants

From USA Today:

"McDonald's, Burger King and Costco, for instance, are far more rigorous in checking for bacteria and dangerous pathogens. They test the ground beef they buy five to 10 times more often than the USDA tests beef made for schools during a typical production day.

For chicken, the USDA has supplied schools with thousands of tons of meat from old birds that might otherwise go to compost or pet food. Called "spent hens" because they're past their egg-laying prime, the chickens don't pass muster with Colonel Sanders— KFC won't buy them — and they don't pass the soup test, either. The Campbell Soup Company says it stopped using them a decade ago based on "quality considerations.

We simply are not giving our kids in schools the same level of quality and safety as you get when you go to many fast-food restaurants."

References:
School Lunch Nutrition Worse Than Fast-Food, Says USA Today. NPR Health Blog.
Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches. USA Today.

"Kids only have 20 minutes to eat their lunches at school, so they'd automatically eat the sweet snacks first". CNN. http://goo.gl/yPxNQ

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

"20 Essential Gmail Tips You Probably Don't Use (but Should!)" http://bit.ly/7Bb45c

"Complete Guide to Free Kindle Books" http://bit.ly/5aV8wH

Free Online Storage Feature-by-Feature Comparison Chart http://bit.ly/6Ri9AQ

Official Twitter buttons: Choose the button you’d like to include in your website http://bit.ly/40pq2l

The Best Twitter Apps for your Mobile Phone http://bit.ly/8NZPff

Deepak Chopra: "It used to annoy me to be called the king of woo woo" http://bit.ly/8xRvIE

Doctors in satirical prints and cartoons (MJA) http://bit.ly/6783OA     

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Hey Hey! I'm 35!

The thing about my birthday falling between Christmas and New Year's is that I get all my "looking back" done in one part of the year. Althou I do have to say that I also reflect in August when it's the kid's birthday. But for me, this is the time of the year when I get all my "what the hell just happened?" out of my system.

So what did just happen?

A whole hell of a lot! That's what!

* Two op-eds published at the Guardian
* One op-ed on NPR.org
* An article at RH Reality Check
* Featured in a Ms. magazine cover story
* Been cited/quoted in many news pieces on feminism, women in science, parenting, politics, Michelle Obama and time management* 
* Named, along with my husband, to the Chicago Latino List
* I guest blogged at Bitch Magazine
* I interviewed Anne Elizabeth Moore for Bitch
* I spoke on panel after panel on topics covering women in science, feminism & motherhood, Latinas & education & feminism, political mom blogging, blogging, feminism & blogging, Chicago politics, racism in marketing to mom bloggers and the changing media landscape (aka feminism & media)
* I gave an awful keynote -- It was a good learning moment
* I traveled to Tampa, Atlanta, NYC, DC, Boston and Indianapolis

Hot damn I'm tired! Maybe I should listen to all the marketing and PR people who keep saying that we need to find one niche and stick with it. NOT!

I like being able to speak about many different topics because I truly do believe most of them are linked. I love talking about why this topic is an issue for this group and vice versa.

So what's next for me? Hell if I know.

I work for a state institution, so that ride will be bumpy. But the work I do keeps getting recognized by people, so I'm taking that as a good sign.

As for my writing, I joined Chicagonista in November and I look forward to bringing my feministy ways to a new community. I am also going to be contributing to Care2.com in the new year. I was asked to join an uber-blog for a short term project, but it just didn't pay enough for the amount of work that it would add to my life. Looking at it by itself, it wasn't a lot of work, but adding to my workload was just too much. I do hope to be able to join them later on.

That said, I do plan on finally submitting my application to a PhD program for the fall. And if that does happen and I get in plan to see less writing from me around here. Or rather out there. I might only have time to document my experience as a PhD student, mom, wife & full-time worker. Yes, I don't plan to reduce work at the day job when I start a PhD program. I'll reduce my freelance work. But that's still in the future...

My one goal for 2010, for age 35, is to schedule a massage or manicure once a month. I need to take time for myself and just do nothing.

So here's to 2010 and all the fabulous and challenging things she holds for you & me. I got your back if you have mine.


* If you do read that one, know that I wasn't lying as much as the journalist caught me in a moment when I was trying to make some big life changes. I think I've tried most of them - Haven't put most of those goals in full motion, but slowly...

Why scientific journals retract published articles?

From The Lancet:

Editors have a duty to maintain the integrity of the scientific record.

An analysis of 312 retractions from 1988 to 2008 at the Peer Review Congress in Vancouver, BC, Canada revealed the main reasons for retraction:

- fabrication (5%)

- falsification (4%)

- plagiarism (16%)

- redundant publication (17%)

- disputed authorship or data ownership (5%)

- inaccurate or misleading reporting (4%)

- honest research errors (28%)

- non-replicable findings (11%)

- not stated findings (9%)

Overall, 42% of retractions were due to scientific misconduct. In an earlier analysis, 27% of 395 articles were retracted because of misconduct.

References:
COPE's retraction guidelines. The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9705, Pages 1876 - 1877, 5 December 2009.

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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:

Heart Risk of Obesity Greater Than Previously Thought http://bit.ly/7bXJzQ

Study Debunks Notion of 'Healthy Obese' Man - Heart risks may take years to show up, but they're there http://bit.ly/7mymdQ 

Shortage of organs forces transplant surgeons to use "less than ideal" organs, sometimes leading to death - CNN http://bit.ly/7XecJF

Interactive Respiratory Physiology - Free online course by Johns Hopkins - From 1996... http://bit.ly/6mYk86

Shel Israel about his DM2: "Insulin was the enemy & if it won, I would have to concede that diabetes was defeating me" http://bit.ly/6iTMd1

 
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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:

Holiday Spikes - Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease in the U.S. increase dramatically during winter holidays http://bit.ly/8BWuV2

Gene findings support for a causal role of Lp(a) lipoprotein in coronary disease http://bit.ly/7T0t7p

Early-repolarization in the inferior ECG leads asociated with an increased risk of death from cardiac causes http://bit.ly/5sSeUE

People with low education were 31% more likely to suffer a heart attack than those with education beyond high school http://bit.ly/8KtD69

Omega-3 fatty acids decrease risk of progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by 30% http://bit.ly/5issXx

20 ways to get healthier for free - CNN http://bit.ly/8zC8QU - Not all of them are evidence-based of course but a few can be useful.

5 tips for getting what you need from your doctor - CNN http://bit.ly/pIzq      

“The Checklist Manifesto” - A Hospital How-To Guide That Mother Would Love - NYT http://bit.ly/8ekPqZ

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NPR: Patients Turn To Online Buddies To Help Healing

61% of adults say they look online for health information. There's a term for them: e-patients.

20% of e-patients go to Internet and social-networking sites where they can talk to medical experts and other patients:

"They are posting their first-person accounts of treatments and side effects from medications. They are part of the conversation. And that, I think, is an indicator of where we could be going in terms of the future of participatory medicine", says Susannah Fox, with the Pew Internet and American Life Project, "The Internet now is not just information. There is a social life of information online."



There are an exponentially increasing number of ways to follow, tag, talk, poke, nudge and communicate in the virtual world. The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis (see the expanded flickr image) shows most social media facets:



This "flower" of Internet communication replaces the old starfish of Web 2.0 shown below:


Social Media Starfish created by Darren Barefoot (Creative Commons license).

References:
Patients Turn To Online Buddies For Help Healing. NPR.

As I get another year older...

I get that much closer to being a member of the Red Hat Society! I know I can join anytime...hehe. I've always chuckled at their antics and their new year resolutions don't disappoint:

Ruby RedHat's Top Ten Rules for Living Plus ONE


1 Accept reality and live in the here and now. Ruby can't be bothered by what-ifs or regrets. She says they interfere with her fun!

2. Accentuate the positive. Ruby always chooses to find the good in any situation she is faced with. She says she would rather develop laugh lines than frown lines.


3. Nurture yourself. Ruby listens to herself and provides for her own needs. When she needs a break, she gives herself one!


4. Indulge your sense of humor. Ruby heartily appreciates the value of laughter.


5. Play! Either Ruby never grew up all the way or she has regressed. In any event, she knows how to have a great time.


6. Dress up! Ruby adores embellishing whatever she is wearing with glitz, glitter, and glam.


7. Cultivate an openness to new things. Ruby will try almost anything.


8. Express your creativity. Ruby thinks "outside the box."


9. Exercise compassion. Ruby loves to laugh and cry with others.


10. Have courage! Ruby knows she is up to the challenge of whatever may come.


11. Make up for the sobriety of your youth! Ruby says that she, too, was dutiful in her younger years and now she has a lot of quirky stuff that she needs to get done!

Presentation: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled from the contributions of 278 learning professionals, by Jane Hart:

"The tools that moved up the list this year. Note although Twitter moved up 10 places this year to become the top tool, in fact there were other tools that moved up even more places, e.g. YouTube has jumped 15 places to come in at 3rd place, Slideshare up 13 places, and Google Apps and Bubbl.us moved up 28 places."

References:
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day.

Memorable Quotes from Twitter

Memorable quotes and useful links from my Twitter account:

shelisrael 

  

Paula & I made a tray of sandwiches today & gave them to a homeless family shelter. 1st time we did anything like that. Felt good.6 minutes ago from web

Scobleizer 

  

If you are at home robbing my house you have at least 17 more minutes. Make sure you get the iMac upstairs.6 minutes ago from Tweetie

doctorwes 

  

Now that we have the EMR, does a paper cut to the dominant index finger qualify one for short-term disability benefits?2:30 PM Dec 23rd from Echofon

MITorres 

  

Before having kids you should carry a 25lb sack of potatoes with you everywhere you go. Though that wouldn't simulate the squirm.12:46 PM Dec 23rd from Tweetie

1938media 

  

How does a @common_squirrel have more followers than me? Last time I checked I'm an actual human being. I love that little squirrel.10:20 PM Dec 22nd from TweetDeck

doc_rob 

  

Just had a patient call a GI doc "Gastrointelligence." Not always.8:19 AM Dec 22nd from TweetDeck

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Obama and hope

I haven't written or done much in terms of the health care debate. I've been partially paralyzed by seeing allies paralyzed themselves. Paralyzed by what they felt was the failure of President Obama to successfully smash thru a health care bill that would reflect his progressive views that we voted him into office for.

And sadly what I have to keep reminding my friends in the fight is that Obama never said he'd govern by those progressive views. I can't pull them up, but my memory tells me that Obama spent a lot of time talking about his views, but would talk about governing in the middle to respect people on both sides. I watched him in 2002 at an anti-Iraq War rally talk about how Afghanistan was a just war. He never said he was a peace candidate or would be a peace President, no matter what the Nobel Prize people project.

That's not to say that I don't also project my hopes and wishes onto Obama. But Starhawk sent out a timely note for the Solstice that reminded me that we can hope all we want, but without a lot of action and movement, that's all it will be - hope.

But the message of Solstice is this:  hope does not come once into the world and fulfill itself.  Hope and light must constantly be reborn, over and over again.  They wax and wane, and must be renewed.

That renewal, that birthing, requires labor.  Labor means work, commitment, perseverance through that time when it seems you just can’t push any more.  The cervix dilates slowly, pang by pang.  The child begins to emerge, is drawn back, pushed forward another increment.

We are the laboring Mother, we are the spark of light.  New possibilities kick and squirm within us.  No, it’s not easy to bring them forth, but we are strong, and we are made for this work.  Bear down…breathe…push.  This morning the sun rises;  each day a new world is born.

2009 was our honeymoon - not that romantic honeymoon where we gaze adoring into each other's eyes, but rather that honeymoon when we realize that Mr. LoveOfOurLife likes to leave his underwear on the bathroom floor. Every day. We don't get a divorce, we adjust. We take our rose-colored glasses off and get to work. It's not that we don't love Obama anymore, but our Prince Charming has a few flaws.

Thankfully Jill Zimon isn't paralyzed and wrote a fabu piece summarizing the whole situation thus far. 

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:

Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries? There is a correlation between inflexible bodies and inflexible arteries. http://bit.ly/5Rcmsn -- PubMed source: Poor trunk flexibility is associated with arterial stiffening. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009 Oct;297(4):H1314-8. Epub 2009 Aug 7.

Over the past 20 years, the number of doctors in relation to the American population has risen by 30% http://bit.ly/65bAAf

"When picking food, go the caveman route. Does this product occur in nature or come from trees? If not, avoid it" - CNN http://bit.ly/8lkbLH

TIME: The Year in Health 2009 - from A to Z http://bit.ly/5Aju40

Sleep and school: The owl group had an average GPA of 2.84. Larks and robins averaged 3.18. http://bit.ly/4G4LJl

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

"According to one law firm, over 20% of new divorce petitions contain references to Facebook" http://bit.ly/5u5mz1

India firms 'count Facebook cost', losing productivity because office staff spend too long on social networking sites http://bit.ly/8rBLPk

Everyone uses social media today. They just may not know it. http://bit.ly/5vAuI0

Buzzwords in Academic Papers http://bit.ly/6jd92m

Don Dodge: Google has made 3 bets on future of computing: Chrome (browser), Apps (cloud), and Android (mobile) that will change everything. Your cell phone will become your primary computer according to Google... http://bit.ly/5c56Mw

Doctor recruiting patients on Twitter? Check this reply timeline: "Hi this is Dr. Johnson.. I treat headache. call at" http://bit.ly/5EmDPj -- He is a chiropractor who searches Twitter for symptoms and replies offering his services. It does not look like a good approach to me. Clarification: "Chiropractors are also known as doctors of chiropractic in many U.S. jurisdictions" http://bit.ly/4qxudb - Not an M.D.

21 things that became obsolete this decade (Business Insider) http://bit.ly/5XEOkZ

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.