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.

• Do Hospitalists Improve the Quality of Care? Yes, they do. http://bit.ly/zQ89U - Hospitalists were associated with better performance for AMI, pneumonia, disease treatment and diagnosis http://bit.ly/FNtlW
  
  
• Pessimism and Cynicism Appear to Increase Risk of Heart Disease and Death http://bit.ly/synPO
  
  
• When used with ICS and LABA, tiotropium decreases risk of mortality in COPD http://bit.ly/11hnBt
  
  
• Study: Alcohol consumption increases attractiveness ratings of opposite-sex faces http://bit.ly/tUqCI
  
  
• Purple urine bag syndrome is associated with UTI in catheterized patients http://bit.ly/2PGQyv
  
  
• How can some people eat chili pepper after chili pepper without pain? They develop tolerance through desensitization http://bit.ly/280V4R
  
  
• Longest survivor of heart transplant died of cancer 31 years after the operation http://bit.ly/YgioS

• Obama: Canadian health care model won't work in U.S. http://bit.ly/cuYyp

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) is not an endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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