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. The source include 350 RSS feeds (not all of them medical) which produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Australia Cancer Council promotes skin cancer awareness with a music video: "It's a beautiful day for cancer" http://tinyurl.com/9dpaye
  

• NICE guidelines: after a myocardial infarction patients should eat two to four portions of oily fish a week http://tinyurl.com/9vawou
  

• Post-MI: The aim is to achieve a daily intake of 1 g of long chain polyunsaturated fish oil http://tinyurl.com/9vawou
  

• Fish oil supplements decrease deaths from cardiac causes but had no effect on arrhythmias or all cause mortality http://tinyurl.com/9pzdv8
  

• Treatment of Fibromyalgia With Antidepressants: improvement in pain, depression, fatigue, sleep, quality of life http://tinyurl.com/9o65o4
  

• Combination of Vasopressin, Epinephrine, and Steroids may improve survival in refractory cardiac arrest http://tinyurl.com/8fh33q
  

• Occupational stress related to job strain was associated with incident strokes among Japanese men http://tinyurl.com/8zpol8
  

• Poor and shorter sleep in the weeks preceding exposure to a rhinovirus leads to lower resistance to illness http://tinyurl.com/7fwa7y
  

• Outdoor temperature and blood pressure are strongly correlated in the elderly, especially in those 80 yrs or older http://tinyurl.com/839758
  

• During extreme temperatures, a careful monitoring of BP and meds could decrease complications of high BP http://tinyurl.com/839758

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