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.

• Top 20 Most Popular Hospitals on Facebook http://bit.ly/12dW7J
• An unusual cause of chest pain http://bit.ly/r2dRK - Boerhaave’s syndrome
  
  
• "UK Doctors condemn website that allows patients to rate and compare hospitals as if they were on a comparison site" http://bit.ly/Mf15n
  
  
• NPR: It's Open Season On Florida's Pythons http://bit.ly/An6Hq
  
  
• A 2004 article from the NYTimes: "In Trial Work, Edwards Left a Trademark" http://bit.ly/siqyl

• Boston Globe: Hospital CEO leaves a Tony Soprano-like voicemail threating competitor http://bit.ly/tZbHx - Boston Globe: "Primary care doctors are an especially prized commodity" for hospital CEOs http://bit.ly/tZbHx
  
  
• 69 = Percentage of prescriptions dispensed in the U.S. for generic drugs. 10-15 = Typical number of years needed to develop a new drug, it costs $1.3 billion per drug. 21 = Number of completely novel drugs (“new molecular entities”) approved by the FDA in 2008. 46 million = Number of Americans whose drinking water supplies contain at least trace amounts of pharmaceuticals http://bit.ly/4U1tJ
  
  
• Sleep deprivation can have terrible consequences for doctors in training: http://bit.ly/yOwxz

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. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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