Health News of the Day

I subscribe to 350 RSS feeds in Google Reader which produce about 2,500 items per day. Micro-blogging (Twitter) and blogging (CasesBlog) are related in terms of sharing ideas and information. 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.

• Savella is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) - newly approved for fibromyalgia http://tinyurl.com/7xj365
  

• New drug Savella approved for fibromyalgia, joins Cymbalta and Lyrica. http://tinyurl.com/7xj365
  

• Average length of time sleep pills were used in one year by adults? 93 days in 2006 http://tinyurl.com/9ceknq
  

• Use of sleeping pills by young U.S. adults soars -- tripled between 1998 and 2006 http://tinyurl.com/9ceknq
  

• Patients with ICDs exposed to air pollution rapidly (within 2 hours) develop ventricular arrhythmia http://tinyurl.com/73b3pn
  

• Women living in poor countries are 300 times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth http://tinyurl.com/7mcqbq
  

• Typical AND atypical antipsychotic drugs had a similar, dose-related increased risk of sudden cardiac death http://tinyurl.com/98q8yk

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