Health News of the Day (part 2)

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.

• Parkinson's drugs tolcapone and entacapone (COMT inhibitors) show promise in resistant TB http://bit.ly/5oKlW
  
  
• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI ) is actually blogging on their Facebook fan page: http://bit.ly/88xdh
  
  
• NPR: Young Doctors Weigh In On Health Care and Choosing a Specialty vs. Primary Care http://bit.ly/Z9QNp
  
  
• Only survivor of 1971 plane crash fell more than 3km into jungle attached to a row of seats - CNN http://bit.ly/18DQiT
  
  
• http://clinicalreader.com is a useful medical RSS aggregator but why is it anonymous? http://bit.ly/kOB4b
  
  
• Jay Parkinson, MD is a photographer too - some amazing photos in his Flickr stream, viewed by almost 1 mln people http://bit.ly/Gs5jF
  
  
• Radiology Assistant is the educational web site of the Radiological Society of the Netherlands http://bit.ly/1b0eJM
  
  
• A Mindmap Containing All Major Topics in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. http://bit.ly/ZHB2m

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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.

• Medicare Plans to Cut Specialists' Payments: Allergists get a 3% decrease (see page 716 of PDF for all specialties) http://bit.ly/K8G12
  
  
• Oral factor Xa inhibitor Rivaroxaban increases bleeding and might reduce major ischaemic outcomes in ACS. Rivaroxaban oral direct factor Xa inhibitor effective in VTE prevention in elective orthopaedic surgery http://bit.ly/Z8Rvq
  
  
• Comparison of liraglutide, a human GLP-1 analogue, with exenatide, an exendin-based GLP-1 receptor agonist in DM2. Liraglutide daily provided greater improvements in glycaemic control than exenatide BID and was better tolerated http://bit.ly/IihtC
  
  
• Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for second-stage trypanosomiasis - infusion every 12 h for 7 days. Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a fatal disease http://bit.ly/uUmZl
  
  
• Michael Jackson traveled with "mini-clinic" with IV drips and an anesthesiologist who medicated the insomniac singer. His anesthesiologist helped "take him down" and "bring him back up" during his HIStory tour in mid-90s. http://bit.ly/17Ue1z - "CNN Poll: Half of all Americans are Michael Jackson fans" - if only they had showed it to him earlier... http://bit.ly/3PPSw
  
  
• 5 Videos: Mayo Clinic held Tweetcamp to provide basic training for staff in using Twitter, applications in health care http://bit.ly/1PiCJJ

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Celiac disease 4 times as common today as it was 50 years ago, silent disease may increase mortality 4 times

From Mayo Clinic:

Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is at least four times as common today as it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology.

The study also found that subjects who unknowingly had celiac disease were nearly four times as likely as celiac-free subjects to have died during the 45 years of follow-up.

In the video files below, Joseph Murray, M.D., the Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist who led the study, describes the study findings and provides background on the disease, its symptoms and treatment.

Social Media Thoughts

From my Twitter account:

• Video: A review of online medical education in 2009 and the technologies to make it work by Mel Herbert http://bit.ly/XGB25
  
  
• Tips on Using Twitter during Lectures http://bit.ly/a2tsk - see examples: ACAAI http://bit.ly/uquhD and ACLS http://bit.ly/3wmQ8f
  
  
• Google Knows You - If you have a Google Profile and you're logged in to your Google account, search for the word "me" http://bit.ly/ntyXT
  
  
• Video: PBS Mediashift Interview http://bit.ly/X9qVl
  
  
• A List of Safe Kids Search Engines http://bit.ly/k2RxX
  
  
• Sign of the week: http://bit.ly/3wGCLW
  
  
• Classic video of the day: Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, starting a presentation. http://bit.ly/pwGXs

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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.

• Disco tune saves man's life: his wife perform chest compressions to the beat of "Staying Alive" http://bit.ly/JCe15
  
  
• Best place to practice medicine in the U.S.? Texas, according to Medical Economics http://bit.ly/KQ2Wp
  
  
• CMS Announces New Payment Rules that Benefit Primary Care Docs http://bit.ly/YkNXG - "Could primary care actually win under the new CMS proposal?" http://bit.ly/NFMtR
  
  
• Review of Morgellons disease without a single picture? http://bit.ly/R119d (PDF) - Google Images does a "better" job http://bit.ly/jPnRl
  
  
• Medical Hypotheses: The nature of navel fluff. http://bit.ly/ylnMu
  
  
• Celiac diease and the new "silent killer" - wheat. http://bit.ly/GmOz0
  
  
• Sounds like David Carradine Died of Accidental Autoerotic Asphyxiation according to a medical examiner http://bit.ly/QeFMv
  
  
• CNN video: Michael Jackson appeared active in a video of his rehearsal 2 nights before he died http://is.gd/1lLwT

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

CNN video: A young doctor's first day

Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 71

Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages (called "tweets") that you find interesting, useful, amusing, or disagreeable. Here is the 71st edition of My Twitter Favorites.

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   bgaustin Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past. 2:16 PM Jun 22nd from Tweetie
   
   
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   DrGSHenderson Admiring the geometric sunburn pattern on my feet and using the Pythagorean theorum 2 calculate my insole http://twitpic.com/845hc12:51 PM Jun 22nd from Tweetie
   
   
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   scanman If the moustache goes, you go! ☜ Direct quote from my wife, @dermdoc9:44 PM Jun 21st from Power Twitter
   
   
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   loic this coffee is so strong I am jumping all around the place but still happy I have found it 1:16 AM Jun 21st from Seesmic_
   
   
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   Pogue Love the new Shredded Wheat TV ad, pointing out no recipe changes in 100 years: "We put the NO in innovation!" 11:44 AM Jun 20th from TweetDeck
   
   
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   NaseemMiller Working on a story about aging pop. To control cost, one doc says a 99 y.o. shouldn't have cataract surgery. What if the patient wants it? 10:39 AM Jun 20th from web
   
   
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   pierre Today learned benefit of wearing a tie: dribbled coffee all over myself, tie caught it all, and dried itself in minutes. 5:56 PM Jun 19th from Twitterrific
   
   
8. jeffjarvis Forbes: "Skip this welcome screen...." Why aren't they just honest and call it an ad? They need ads. I get that. I need no welcome, though. 5:35 PM Jun 19th from Tweetie
   
   
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   bencasnocha"In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.” - Michael McFaul, democracy expert on the NSC 3:03 PM Jun 19th from web
   
   
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    Pogue TONIGHT'S MEDITATION: I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded. 1:27 PM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
    
    
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    pkedrosky I am convinced the prolific @pogue 's #1 productivity tip is always overlooked: "I work from home. That's 2-3 hours more time each day ..." 12:40 AM Jun 19th from twhirl
    
    
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    AllergyNotes I believe we had the first ever Journal Club on Twitter on Dec 11, 2008 http://bit.ly/ZkDn0 - please reply @JRBtrip to expand the idea 6:07 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
    

The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) in Selection of My Twitter Favorites does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind.

If you are included in this post but you would like to have your tweet removed for any reason, please email me and will comply with your request the same day.

Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people. You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.

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.

• Phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) - a major antigen in membranous nephropathy, a common form of nephrotic syndrome http://bit.ly/1a8sfK
• Study: No improvement in survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the hospital from 1992 through 2005. The overall incidence of CPR was 2.73 events per 1000 admissions http://bit.ly/xTZC5
  
  
• Blockade of renin–angiotensin system in DM1 with ACEi plus ARB did not slow nephropathy progression. Blockade of renin–angiotensin system in DM1 with ACEi plus ARB (Enalapril, Losartan) slowed progression of retinopathy http://bit.ly/kpLxy
  
  
• Celiac Disease Cases Are on the Rise: 4 times more common in the U.S. today than it was 50 years ago. Only 5% of people with celiac disease know they have it. Celiac disease rise (and allergies) blamed on hygiene hypothesis - people are exposed to fewer germs than in the past http://bit.ly/7F5vr
  
  
• American College of Cardiology shocked: CMS proposes to cut payments to cardiology services by 11% in a single year http://bit.ly/gloK4
  
  
• Orthopedic surgeons seeing a "tidal wave" of 45-64-year-olds suffering from exercise-related injuries - "boomeritis http://bit.ly/17aUbY
  
  
• Medicare May Shuffle the Deck on Doctor Payments, WSJ: http://bit.ly/3yAHr5
  
  
• Tattoo Allergy from NEJM Images in Clinical Medicine http://bit.ly/T8xz

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Thoughts

From my Twitter account:

• Scientists use Gmail - more and more of the email correspondence addresses in PubMed abstracts are @gmail.com. It makes sense, if one moves to a different university, the old .edu email does not work anymore.
  
  
• PeRSSonalized Medicine vs Clinical Reader http://is.gd/1kk4e - In my experience, Google Reader is more powerful, simpler & gets the job done.
  
  
• Mayo Clinic gets its own AllTop aggregation page http://mayo-clinic.alltop.com - First hospital to be "honored" this way?
  
  
• "In case of fire, resist every urge to tweet about it, and leave building in calm orderly fashion." via @aaronwatkins http://bit.ly/tpJCr
  
  
• Bing Search Engine by Microsoft Keeps Its Foot On The Gas, Adds Tweets To Results http://bit.ly/ozV88 - Google is losing market share to Bing and hasn’t yet figured out how to respond. http://bit.ly/W93IP
  
  
• EtherPad - web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time http://etherpad.com
  
  
• Videos from “Celebrating case reports, the stories in healthcare” http://bit.ly/16ns1w

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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.

• Dr. Matthew Mintz: "Lantus Causes Cancer! Why Doesn't Anyone Seem Care?" - Insulin like growth factor (IGF-1) stimulates tumor growth. Lantus has a greater affinity for IGF-1 than human insulin. Levemir that has very little affinity for IGF-1 receptor (less than even human insulin) and is as effective as Lantus http://bit.ly/wv8d5
  
  
• Evidence does not support using probiotics to treat Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, CCJM: http://bit.ly/kscTy
  
  
• Statins Reduce Heart Attacks and Strokes in Patients With Normal Cholesterol http://bit.ly/gAAd4
  
  
• Better USMLE 2 score associated with students caring for more patients/day http://is.gd/1k0gw & http://is.gd/1k0hb - Students, not residents.
  
  
• 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. Rankings for 2009 http://bit.ly/1ancNS
  
  
• FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin, Percocet off market http://bit.ly/BeDwG
  
  
• Dermatology Online Journal is a free open access journal supported by UC-Davis, Creative Commons license http://bit.ly/kzA3r
  
  
• Dr. Wes on the issue of placing pacers in 100-year olds http://bit.ly/11V2f

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.