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:Did Mona Lisa Suffer From High Cholesterol and Michelangelo from kidney stones? Art historians speculate in TIME http://bit.ly/70XZAk -- What’s behind the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic expression? The Mona Lisa Diet: High Cholesterol = Bucolic Smile? http://bit.ly/7RQ40OMedical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
12 Tips on Tattoo Removal from Cleveland Clinic http://bit.ly/7OyFyk
Physical Activity Data in Wolfram|Alpha - Estimate energy burned by running a specific distance in a given time http://bit.ly/6Z5oxY
Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ http://bit.ly/4TduGZ - Check the interactive transcript (right sidebar). A Blue Zone is a region of the world where people commonly live active lives past the age of 100 years http://bit.ly/12m1TY
RT @sandnsurf Never smoke whilst on home oxygen! http://tinyurl.com/y988fuv (warning: graphic content for nonmedical readers)
RT @amednews Pilots use checklists. Should physicians? http://bit.ly/8pSURr - Yes, I've used checklists in patient care for years. They can be very useful.
RT @amednews When menopause starts, cholesterol levels jump. http://bit.ly/5tQXE4
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ReplyDeleteWhen Dr. Uffe Ravnskov MD PhD went back and looked at the literature he found that on average elderly people with higher cholesterol live longer. For those interested there are write-ups on this here
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com