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.

• "Female athlete tetrad" - disordered eating, menstrual dysfunction, osteoporosis, early signs of cardiovascular disease http://bit.ly/147w6J
  
  
• 40% of contact lens wearers don’t replace their lenses in keeping with the makers' recommendations http://bit.ly/13OLnR
  
  
• Sedatives and sleeping pills for anxiety and sleep problems increase the risk of suicide four-fold among the elderly http://bit.ly/J4j1E
  
  
• Text message reminders to take medications reduce the risk of organ rejection in teenagers who've had a liver transplant http://bit.ly/t44l4
  
  
• New disease: DIRA, deficiency of the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist leading to autoinflammatory disorder http://bit.ly/N0dqm

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