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.- In sepsis, a higher serum bilirubin level on ICU admission is associated with subsequent ARDS development and mortality http://bit.ly/1Vks3
- 142 out of 1,155 cases of influenza A (H1N1) tested were resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) http://bit.ly/EK529
- Self-plagiarism: unintentional, harmless, or fraud? Journals increasingly seeing submissions in which large parts of text have been copied from previously published papers by the same author. Lancet http://bit.ly/4B0DO
- 8% of men and 0·4% of women have impaired colour-vision, of whom half are unable to recognise the main colours. 2% people with impaired colour-vision confuse their medication because they had mistaken the colour of tablets. http://bit.ly/11mFyT
- Kudzu, a fast-growing vine considered a nuisance covering everything in its path, may help metabolic syndrome http://bit.ly/r990F
- People who are heavily in debt are more likely to be heavy themselves, too http://bit.ly/13R7rf
- Cooking gave early humans an advantage over other primates, leading to larger brains and more free time http://bit.ly/gv227
- Multitasking Doesn't Mean Higher Productivity, may weaken cognitive ability http://bit.ly/ZmtUW
- Restaurants are substituting cheaper fish, like catfish, for more expensive species like grouper and red snapper http://bit.ly/16WPz2
- Reaching across the globe, Cleveland Clinic will provide fellowships to Australian doctors http://bit.ly/12HFt4
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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