Thursday, July 30, 2009

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.

  • Professor of bioethics in NYT: "Why We Must Ration Health Care" http://bit.ly/cYTSB

  • Noninvasive selective visualization of the whole peripheral nervous system by Whole-Body MRI Neurography http://bit.ly/pDTJk

  • 30-day rate of death after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding was 0.3% http://bit.ly/dbsN3

  • Gardner's syndrome (familial adenomatous polyposis) is a cilia-related disorder http://bit.ly/2laVS

  • Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study http://bit.ly/1AV0Pn

  • Protein Clumps May Appear in the Brain Years Before Memory Problems in Alzheimer's Dementia http://bit.ly/3Ztix

  • "Should you trust health advice from the web?" New Scientist http://bit.ly/5Pi43

  • NEJM is now on Twitter @NEJM and Facebook http://bit.ly/oPWwk

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source/links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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