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.

• Dr. Matthew Mintz: "Lantus Causes Cancer! Why Doesn't Anyone Seem Care?" - Insulin like growth factor (IGF-1) stimulates tumor growth. Lantus has a greater affinity for IGF-1 than human insulin. Levemir that has very little affinity for IGF-1 receptor (less than even human insulin) and is as effective as Lantus http://bit.ly/wv8d5
  
  
• Evidence does not support using probiotics to treat Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, CCJM: http://bit.ly/kscTy
  
  
• Statins Reduce Heart Attacks and Strokes in Patients With Normal Cholesterol http://bit.ly/gAAd4
  
  
• Better USMLE 2 score associated with students caring for more patients/day http://is.gd/1k0gw & http://is.gd/1k0hb - Students, not residents.
  
  
• 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. Rankings for 2009 http://bit.ly/1ancNS
  
  
• FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin, Percocet off market http://bit.ly/BeDwG
  
  
• Dermatology Online Journal is a free open access journal supported by UC-Davis, Creative Commons license http://bit.ly/kzA3r
  
  
• Dr. Wes on the issue of placing pacers in 100-year olds http://bit.ly/11V2f

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Video: Twitter Search in Plain English

The CommonCraft team has a new video explaining how to use Twitter as a search tool.

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.

• Recurrent mouth ulcers (aphthous stomatitis) may suggest celiac disease http://is.gd/1jvwI
  
  
• Clinical Image: 17 broken needles in the neck of a heroin addict http://bit.ly/2Arqgl
  
  
• Great set of videos about Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine http://is.gd/1iItV
  
  
• The doctor will text you now: is there a role for the mobile telephone in health care? BMJ http://is.gd/1je4D
  
  
• PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors) http://is.gd/1jdXI
  
  
• ELITEDR - the license plate of a prominent concierge doctor in LA http://twitpic.com/8vw6c
  
  
• "Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, was a cardiologist who was not board certified in cardiology" http://is.gd/1jwmb

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Heat In Parked Car Turns Deadly In 5-10 Minutes

From KETV.com:

"On an 80-degree day this month, a Children's Hospital and Medical Center expert placed a gauge inside a car to show how fast the environment becomes deadly.

The gauge read 91.4 degrees when first placed inside the parked car. With the windows up, the Greenhouse Effect kicked up the heat at a critical rate. Not even five minutes later, the temperature was climbing past 99 degrees.

At 10 minutes in the car, the temperature was up to 106.2 degrees -- hot enough to kill a person."

References:
Heat In Parked Car Turns Deadly In Minutes. KETV.com.
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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.

• Patients Visit With Their Physicians Online as More Insurers Begin Paying for Digital Diagnoses. Bad idea: "How to be a digital doctor and diagnose conjunctivitis via email" http://bit.ly/KcUmB
  
  
• New pneumonia score - SCAP (developed in Spain) outperforms other scores in predicting severity http://bit.ly/18eQyn
  
  
• 36 Hippocratic Aphorisms of Nephrologic Interest - the authors of the article are 3 Greek doctors http://bit.ly/OSn3W
  
  
• In the U.S., every horse receives Lasix (furosemide) diuretic on the day of the race http://bit.ly/HAla5

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