Medicine and Man

• Living near major traffic roads associated with increased risk of deep vein thrombosis due to higher air pollution http://bit.ly/1arjxA #
• Cardiac rehabilitation lowers mortality by 21-34% in older patients with heart disease http://bit.ly/ayrlr #
• Measuring Copeptin (C-terminal part of vasopressin) with troponin more accurately rules out heart attack in the ER http://bit.ly/1qdXot #
• Lancet Review: Bite-related and septic syndromes caused by cats and dogs http://bit.ly/sbIwk #
• PLOS Medicine: What Is the Optimal Therapy for Patients with H5N1 Influenza? (and application to H1N1 flu) http://bit.ly/16ppeW #swineflu #
• PROSPER trial: inflammatory markers (IL-6, CRP) strongly assoc with risk of fatal vascular events than nonfatal events http://bit.ly/QWstQ #
• Nice graphics on growth of twitter http://bit.ly/zHUaw (via @maniagrawal) #
• Obesity during early adulthood associated with greater risk of pancreatic cancer and younger age of disease onset http://bit.ly/Mp27L #
• Migraine with aura in midlife assoc with late-life prevalence of cerebellar infarct-like lesions on MRI in women http://bit.ly/zbIDh #
• Prolongation of PR interval assoc with increased risk of Afib, pacemaker implantation and all-cause mortality http://bit.ly/WPJ7U #
• WSJ: “What other profession has experienced a reduction in reimbursement over the last 20 years?” http://bit.ly/nUVax (via @AllergyNotes) #
• Google Labs just launched City Tours – Type in a city and it gives a 3 day travel itinerary http://citytours.googlelabs.com/ #
• Alcohol-attributable mortality in Russia causes more than half of all Russian deaths at ages 15—54 years http://bit.ly/170zqv #
• Alcohol-attributable mortality in Russia due to: Accidents/Violence, alcohol poisoning, acute ischemic heart disease http://bit.ly/170zqv #
• In Russia – Significantly higher rates of upper GI cancer, liver cancer, TB, pneumonia, liver disease, pancreatic disease among others #
• An estimated 3·8% of all global deaths and 4·6% of global disability-adjusted life-years is attributable to alcohol http://bit.ly/j4AWV #
• The costs associated with alcohol amount to more than 1% of the gross national product http://bit.ly/j4AWV #
• Making alcohol more expensive and less available with ban alcohol ads are cost-effective strategies to reduce harm http://bit.ly/1227My #

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