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.

• HR, BP and blood flow change in response to musical crescendos (increase in volume and intensity) and decrescendos. HR, BP response seen even w/o emotional responses to the music, may synchronize "inherent cardiovascular rhythms" http://bit.ly/108iDs
  
  
• First-Degree AV associated with increased risks of AF, pacemaker implantation, and all-cause mortality. http://bit.ly/YLFs7
  
  
• 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the first description of Pneumocystis, JAMA: http://bit.ly/xmhlR
  
  
• "Public should be cautious and wait for study findings before jumping on the bandwagon to take megadoses of vitamin D" http://bit.ly/BGsUO
  
  
• "Six Patient Behaviors That Drive Doctors Nuts" http://bit.ly/vfLVf
  
  
• How to Use Social Media: An Interview with Lee Aase of Mayo Clinic http://bit.ly/NTl7b
• "Unpublished Data, No Pictures Please" http://bit.ly/cMZ3N - If your data are so secret, may be you should not present them either... :)
  
  
• Email logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. http://bit.ly/16vEeg
  
  

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