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:

Prone positioning does not provide survival benefit in patients with ARDS - JAMA http://bit.ly/5r5xLo

Study: Loneliness can spread like a contagious disease. Previous studies reported similar findings w happiness, obesity http://bit.ly/4MQycr

Medical students are commonly stuck by needles but 47% fail to report their injuries http://bit.ly/6MXqVb

Is an ACE inhibitor plus an ARB more effective than either drug alone? No. Read why from CCJM: http://bit.ly/5P6Tn7

Love in the time of HIV/AIDS: Shawn and Gwenn have been married for 5 years. Decker is HIV positive. CNN http://bit.ly/4u2UUn

CT scans may predict survival in colorectal cancer http://bit.ly/8eMFda

Half of all patients in intensive care units (ICU) around the world have infections http://bit.ly/7XPVyn

Former Miss Argentina dies after plastic surgery - "elective surgery on her buttocks" according to CNN http://tinyurl.com/yz9ncxt

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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