Thursday, January 21, 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:

Alternative to injections in MS - 2 new drugs can be taken orally to slow the disease progression http://bit.ly/8pWP8T  -- Two new oral drugs - cladribine and fingolimod - are able to reduce the rates of relapses in multiple sclerosis http://bit.ly/8R4cfz
Aspirin/dipyridamole within 24 h of stroke onset prevents disability no more than later initiation, after 7 days http://bit.ly/64qYBf

PAM4 Protein Can Reveal Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer - identified 62% of early cancer and 81% of all pancreatic CA http://bit.ly/64ozDb

Should Surgeons Meet Patients Online? Surgeons dispense opinions to patients they’ve never met http://bit.ly/78GGoy

Rabbits are being milked to create drugs for stroke and angioedema patients http://bit.ly/65M3cy

Medical schools, print publishers, and independent doctors are sharing videos of clinical skills on YouTube http://bit.ly/7PBA7H
Insulin pumps may be more effective than insulin injections in type 1 diabetes http://bit.ly/8zZYUi

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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