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.

• People who worked with pesticides were 53% more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. http://bit.ly/3e2DO
  
  
• Spouses of people with dementia are 12 times more likely to develop dementia themselves. http://bit.ly/FhpIk
  
  
• APOE 4 gene variant confers an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. http://bit.ly/13WU3o
  
  
• Postsynaptic glutamate (NMDA) receptor is essential for memory and learning http://bit.ly/UpO66
  
  
• Teens who develop infectious mononucleosis may be at risk for chronic fatigue syndrome http://bit.ly/uovEX
  
  
• "The Effect of Gender on Clerkship during Medical Education" - an article review by Dr Shock http://bit.ly/F4iNV
  
  
• "Wikipedia isn't really the patient's friend" http://bit.ly/2mIPCJ by @kevinmd
  
  
• BBC: Cats 'exploit' humans by purring - See Pepo the cat employing his 'soliciting purr' http://bit.ly/2YHdXQ
  
  
• NEJM Reviews Prasugrel Use in Cardiology Practice http://bit.ly/uAO39 - See Mechanism of Action of Prasugrel http://bit.ly/rxgvU

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