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.

• Treatment with monoclonal anti–TNF- antibodies for RA may be associated with increased risk of herpes zoster http://is.gd/jTdy
  
  
• TNF-alpha blockers doubled the risk of herpes zoster among rheumatoid arthritis sufferers in a 5,040-patient study http://is.gd/jThW
  
  
• Monoclonal anti–TNF- antibodies Humira, Kineret, and Remicade each increased shingles risk by 80%. Enbrel did not. http://is.gd/jThW
  
  
• JAMA: Half of adult cancer survivors are younger than 65 years but cancer survivorship is associated with unemployment http://is.gd/jTfd
  
  
• Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the third in women worldwide http://is.gd/jTgH
  
  
• Genetic test for colon cancer biomarker guanylyl cyclase 2 C from lymph nodes can help find "hidden" cancer cells http://is.gd/jTgH
  
  
• Quadrivalent meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine is more immunogenic than the currently licensed unconjugated vaccine http://is.gd/jTk8
  
  
• DNA vaccines may be used to treat allergy in the future, Medscape: http://tinyurl.com/d68zzd
  
  
• Mechanism of DNA vaccines for allergy: vaccines could polarize dendritic cells to induce antiallergic T regulatory cells http://is.gd/jTm2

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