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:Drivers take their eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds out of every 6 seconds while texting, increases crash risk 20 times. Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under U.S. federal guidelines - CNN http://goo.gl/PCnp
57% of diabetes patients are intentionally skipping insulin injections they know they should take http://goo.gl/mG1A
Catheter Ablation Is Better Than Medications at Treating Some Atrial Fibrillation Patients - WebMD http://bit.ly/aFgy05
Hard lessons, humility for big-city doctors in Haiti: "I came here a very fancy doctor, I'm leaving as a humble man" http://bit.ly/cXDfLn
"Weird home cures" http://bit.ly/5WC0oF - Useful info to get an idea what patients may have tried before they see a doctor.
Herbal use common among pregnant women in U.S. - 1 in 10 expose their unborn baby to herbal products http://bit.ly/aeShyJ
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