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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

  • Smoke-free legislation reduces rate of heart attack, and these benefits grow with time http://bit.ly/RRUNI #
  • Can air pollution cause appendicitis? http://bit.ly/3oUp4P Possibly!! #
  • There is insufficient evidence to support evaluating risk of heart disease based on non-traditional risk factors http://bit.ly/kvasD #
  • Non traditional risk factors for heart disease – CRP, homocysteine, lipoprotein(a), ABI, cardiac CT, CIMT http://bit.ly/kvasD #
  • Hand hygiene and face masks may prevent household transmission of influenza virus http://bit.ly/CtO1K #
  • The New Yorker: Swine Flu rumors and fears http://bit.ly/3vmil #
  • Is cystatin C the next creatinine? http://bit.ly/17q2bm #
  • 13 million songs were for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer http://bit.ly/4FiwEk #
  • Last year 80% of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs (less than 1% of all songs) http://bit.ly/4FiwEk #
  • Convertibles Hazardous to Your Hearing: When driven at 70 mph, the noise averaged 89 decibels http://bit.ly/9KjmF (via @DrVes) #
  • Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension may be attenuated by iron supplementation and exacerbated by iron depletion http://bit.ly/cfKUi #
  • Can driving a convertible cause hearing loss http://bit.ly/21TFTg Possible #
  • NY Times: 20 Food rules to live by! http://bit.ly/19AXe9 #
  • Michael Jordan: "I’ve missed 9000 shots. I’ve lost 399 games. I’ve failed over and over again. And that’s why I succeed" via @SteveCase #
  • Hormone replacement therapy increases risk of death in women who ALREADY have lung cancer http://bit.ly/9yHpb #
  • Swine Flu: Who Is Most Vulnerable? http://bit.ly/vkmR8 #
  • 8 Ways Physicians Can Use Evernote http://bit.ly/x2iDd (via @DrVes) #
  • Exercise improves life expectancy in patients with chronic kidney disease http://bit.ly/nf9ii #
  • Google flu trends now analyzes data from 16 countries to try and predict influenza epidemic before health officials http://bit.ly/T9U6k #
  • Proton pump inhibitors attenuate the effect of anti-platelets but the interaction is not clinically significant http://bit.ly/14zSyu #

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