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:

MRSA causes more deaths in U.S. than HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's disease, emphysema, and homicide combined. http://bit.ly/6x2D33

Postoperative Blood Clot (DVT) Risk Greater, More Persistent Than Experts Thought http://bit.ly/7US7Mx -- Risk of DVT and PE after surgery is increased in the first 12 postoperative weeks (3 months) http://bit.ly/5IQevT

Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a non-invasive treatment for neck pain - non-thermal laser irradiation is applied to sites of pain. Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) reduces pain up to 22 weeks after treatment in patients with chronic neck pain http://bit.ly/7xubdI

Retirement may help healing: Burden of ill-health is relieved by retirement for almost all workers in France http://bit.ly/4SZmJD

Diabetes patients who used sulfonylureas had a higher risk of death and heart failure than those who took metformin http://bit.ly/512Vs0

U.S. Surgeon General: More minority doctors needed - USA Today http://bit.ly/6tmj5s

Loneliness spreads in social networks - CNN http://bit.ly/6TVQWx

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