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.

• The coldest job on earth: doctor on Antarctica’s only international base http://bit.ly/18tNlV
  
  
• Monitoring bone mineral density in the first three years after starting treatment with bisphosphonate is unnecessary, BMJ http://is.gd/1foCW
  
  
• Report: Inexperienced doctors may fail to spot warning signs http://bit.ly/2dk6mM
  
  
• Factors associated with mortality in patients receiving methadone in primary care, BMJ: 8% people died http://bit.ly/2SGfhq
  
  
• Michael Jackson was on Demerol TID, Dilaudid, Vicodin, Xanax. The Huffington Post profiles one of his personal physicians: http://bit.ly/6Dek9
  
  
• Career Advice: Ten Simple Rules for Choosing between Industry and Academia http://bit.ly/H56AH
  
  
• WSJ comment: "Obama's Health Future: Rationing, and not only withholding care from the elderly." http://bit.ly/Iwfn9

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