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.

• New abbreviation for swine flu: S-OIV = swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus http://bit.ly/19YHoY - Mexico experience: S-OIV causes severe illness, ARDS, death in previously healthy persons who are young to middle-aged http://bit.ly/19YHoY
  
  
• X-ray: A man swallowed a spoon while trying to extract a fish bone that was stuck in his throat http://bit.ly/3q9zl - This is a video of the well-known story Old Lady Swallowed a Fly, by Cullen's Abc's http://bit.ly/BzbWX - A NEJM case report and a T-shirt sign look made for each other http://bit.ly/3q9zl and http://bit.ly/T3ZAq
  
  
• CNN: Should your daughter get Gardasil, the vaccine against HPV? http://bit.ly/AnXFB
  
  
• Stressed-out and sleep-deprived, college students are frequently taking OTC and prescription drugs http://bit.ly/zt33z - College students often reported disturbed sleep; over 60% were categorized as poor-quality sleepers http://bit.ly/pCdom
  
  
• 5 percent of people get by on six hours or less of sleep a night without any ill effects http://bit.ly/xHN0t - People With a Rare Gene Mutation Only Need a 6-Hour Sleep, No Naps, Instead of the Typical 8 Hours http://bit.ly/Ldtjn
  
  
• Eating fatty food almost immediately decreases both short-term memory and exercise performance (in rats) http://bit.ly/5ZeKH
  
  
• "Patient wants prescription. Physician says no. Patient bites doctor's finger off." http://bit.ly/xUpjf via @amednews
  
  
• White House’s kitchen garden site revealed high levels of lead, had to add lime, etc. to the soil to improve it http://bit.ly/RyOgf
  
  
• Aromatherapy: application of "shoe-smell" to control epileptic seizures in some Eastern countries. http://bit.ly/JhVap
  
  
• "For The Record Book, The Mathematics of a Smoker = one cigarette every 10.8 minutes" http://bit.ly/ilIvi
  
  
• Social Media at CDC http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia
  
  

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