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.

• Most melanomas were detected as a result of dermatologist-initiated Full-Body Skin Exam (FBSE), not patient complaint http://bit.ly/3wVcVP
  
  
• Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with all-cause mortality and specifically that due to coronary artery disease http://bit.ly/wPDhA
  
  
• PubMed: "Does garlic protect against vampires? An experimental study. Owing to the lack of vampires, we used leeches" http://bit.ly/IKOrY - Link via "NCBI ROFL. Real articles. Funny subjects" - the brainchild of 2 Mol/Cell Biology graduate students at UC Berkeley http://bit.ly/173oS0
  
  
• Mental Stress Training Is Planned for U.S. Soldiers: intended to prevent PTSD and depression. http://bit.ly/yeIjF
  
  
• Solar Drinking Water Disinfection (SODIS) to Reduce Childhood Diarrhoea: not very effective http://bit.ly/iPTKD
  
  
• The future of electronic biomedical journals: those who wanted to predict the future have always been wrong http://bit.ly/Oi9NU - Not true.
  
  
• "Being a librarian these days is all about technology and customer service; no time to stick your nose in a book" http://bit.ly/bm5Qo
  
  
• Renal Fellow: "I had always assumed that"Bence-Jones" protein was named after 2 doctors, Bence & Jones" http://bit.ly/cpBiS - Not so.
  
  
• NYT: Healthy One Day, Dying the Next: A Medical Race http://bit.ly/E9Ik3 - Rare diagnosis: Wilson's disease.
  
  
• Health Care in Britain: Expat Goes for a Checkup http://bit.ly/10QEPN
  
  
• How to Evaluate eHealth Interventions http://bit.ly/3gCDHP
  
  

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