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 (not all of them medical) that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Go to a party to cut dementia risk? Keeping a full social calendar may help protect you from dementia http://tinyurl.com/8kbbfn
  

• Socially active people had a 50% lower risk of developing dementia compared with men and women who were isolated
  

• "Having a calm outgoing personality with a socially active lifestyle may decrease the risk of developing dementia" http://tinyurl.com/8kbbfn
  

• 24 million people worldwide have memory loss, the number of people with dementia may quadruple by 2040
  

• 4% of South Asians (60 million) carry a mutation gene that may lead to a lifelong predisposition to heart failure http://tinyurl.com/73xdsl
  

• Word "pheromone" has been around for 50 years, no one has identified that kind of chemical signal in human scents http://tinyurl.com/8fjmfp
  

• "Will medical tourism drive domestic doctors out of business?" http://tinyurl.com/9t5b8q
  

• Most successful dieters lose weight on their own, largely by eating right and exercising regularly http://tinyurl.com/6v62de
  

• "Overrated Career: Physician 2009" in U.S. News: http://tinyurl.com/a6e8hh -- Don't forget to check the comments too

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