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.

• The new BMJ online archive: A single search can find any article published in the BMJ since 1840 http://is.gd/w1Rw
  
  
• What Americans Are Doing to Avoid Catching the Flu: 17% avoided Mexican restaurants (?), 1% purchased antivirals http://is.gd/w1KW
  
  
• Vitamin D Insufficiency Linked to Asthma Severity, Medscape: http://is.gd/w1IS
  
  
• Individuals with the lowest serum folate levels were 31% more likely to have atopy and 40% more likely to wheeze http://is.gd/vRoH
  
  
• BBC: YouTube helps man deliver baby http://is.gd/vP5b
  
  
• Review of free online resources for teaching CXR/EKG/PFT (PDF file) http://tinyurl.com/djabc6
  
  
• ENT expanding into pulmonologists/allergists' domain:"Inclusion of Asthma in Otolaryngologic Clinical Practice" by ENToday http://is.gd/w1OO

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