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.

• Vertebroplasty for Osteoporotic Spinal Fractures: No better than a sham procedure. NEJM http://bit.ly/M3hsp
  
  
• DVT prophylaxis after TKR: apixaban (factor Xa inhibitor) did not meet criteria for noninferiority to enoxaparin http://bit.ly/7amcD
  
  
• Heavy Drinkers Face Increased Risk of 6 Cancers http://bit.ly/hu6S8
  
  
• Top-selling generic drugs and the branded drugs they're displacing http://bit.ly/Edue7
  
  
• Teva: The king of generic drugs http://bit.ly/HdJND
  
  
• TNF blockers increase cancer risk in children, lymphoma risk particularly high http://bit.ly/zrx3F
  
  
• Pain of peripheral IV insertion is reduced by using topical lidocaine cream or injected, buffered lidocaine http://bit.ly/arCvB

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.

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