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.

• Quitting smoking causes a quick drop in inflammation markers such as CRP, TNF and IL-6 http://bit.ly/sRcQH
  
  
• DASH Diet, Designed to Cut High Blood Pressure, May Also Make Kidney Stones Less Likely http://bit.ly/9a0w0
  
  
• Are freshwater fish as healthy to eat as ocean fish? http://bit.ly/1LDarV - Probably not. Dioxins and PCBs build up in freshwater fish.
  
  
• 25% of world’s population doesn’t taste bitter, some Neanderthals were in the same boat. Human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal lineages began to diverge a half-million years ago http://bit.ly/16oq26
  
  
• Talk to my agent: Some physicians let others arrange the job http://bit.ly/2NSSsq
  
  
• Half of American children 12 and older have cellphones http://bit.ly/1eo5dB
  
  
• Osteoporosis drugs pamidronate and zoledronate effective in killing flu viruses in vitro http://bit.ly/AVqEx
  
  
• Children with lower-than-average intelligence are more likely to die young http://bit.ly/1OEi0k
  
  
• NYT: Do Real Men Go to the Doctor? http://bit.ly/lgWYT - Yes, they do... :)
  
  
• "Social and medical history, all rolled into one" http://bit.ly/17mkFI

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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