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.

• Smokers are twice as likely to develop active tuberculosis compared to people who have never smoked http://bit.ly/110Aow
  
  
• Does wine really prevent heart problems? http://bit.ly/lZBFZ
  
  
• Research Trove: Patients’ Online Data http://bit.ly/RzXIn
  
  
• Entire German City Bans Hand Shaking http://bit.ly/1udesD
  
  
• People know little about human anatomy http://bit.ly/lpR0O - Study: http://bit.ly/18ARQ3
  
  
• Multitaskers are bad at multitasking - BBC http://bit.ly/ynQFM
  
  
• Sentiment analysis: Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts http://bit.ly/2ZjWi
  
  
• In Europe, Swedish and Danish hospitals lead on social media - 11% of Swedish hospitals use RSS feeds, 4% use blogs. Dutch and English hospitals use the widest variety of SM: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and particularly blogs (8.13%) http://bit.ly/CioE7
  
  
• Cleveland Clinic is expanding its telemedicine program to include "eICU" http://bit.ly/Gyha
  
  
• First-of-its-kind Internet addiction treatment center opens in the U.S. http://bit.ly/M65jC

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) is not an endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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