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:

WHO: New H1N1 flu is "strikingly different" from seasonal flu, killing younger people and often killing them very fast http://bit.ly/1HDTDd

Prophylactic antipyretics at the time of vaccination may reduce antibody responses to several vaccine antigens http://bit.ly/BR3XR

Darker colors in cotton fabric provide better protection against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays than lighter tones http://bit.ly/1fswrs

Doctor says near-death experiences are in the mind - CNN http://bit.ly/6czbp

Drinking a cup of green tea per day was associated with 41% lower of dying from pneumonia among Japanese women http://bit.ly/2k74bM

Does inexperience cost lives? Any evidence behind the “killing season” in the UK and the “July phenomenon” in the U.S.? http://bit.ly/4FNg5K

Modern man a wimp says anthropologist http://bit.ly/Jo8sh

Backpacking appeals to people who are open to experimentation and risk-taking, which may extend to sexual risk-taking http://bit.ly/1RsnCX

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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