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 Arch of Intern Med says Obama gets too many med tests. But did he get the best, cheapest one: What's the Presidential vitamin D level? # Good news RT @PattiDudek: Seclusion & Restraints Bill Passes House of Representatives http://bit.ly/cPL7s9 # New article! Tips to Avoid a Daylight Saving Death. Studies show def. mort. [...]  We’ve had the deflating news that Daylight Saving Time (where we lose an oh-so-painful hour of sleep) doesn’t even save energy – in fact it may even increase energy usage. Looks like the savings in energy due to decreased light usage is more than offset by the increase in energy used for air conditioning. [...] RT @Mtnmd: J Natl Canc Inst 1999 women consuming high levels of antioxidants were 3 times less likely 2 develop breast cancer # RT @Mtnmd: J Natl Canc Inst 1999 women consuming high levels of antioxidants were 3 times less likely 2 develop breast cancer #  Image via Wikipedia Once again (this now happens every couple of months) the FDA is forcing a recall of food products (notice that they are called food products, not food) tainted with salmonella. This time it is hydrolyzed vegetable protein manufactured by Basic Food Flavors (that’s some flavoring they are adding…) The ‘food [...] Feeling the difference today between practicing Haiti-medicine vs. US homeless medicine. An impressively larger gap than you might think… # Giving a talk on issues regarding underage drinking at a local high school. Great topic. # Haiti: at Stanford for Relief 2.0 conference. Great info on moving into more coordinated care- esp for vulnerable groups. # Want to follow Haiti Relief 2.0 conference at Stanford re: health and use of social media? Hashtag: #KLF2HAITI # Having a Haiti moment at JFK: there is apparently debris all over our runway (source?). We have to go around, on a bus, dragging our bags. # live chat NOW! where we report LIVE from Haiti on our medical disaster relief trip – http://tinyurl.com/y8qr92g #  How quickly we humans normalize even the most extreme scenario – as long as we see it over and over. By now, it seems perfectly normal for our fringed-draped bus to 4-wheel it over piles of rubble. We automatically get out and walk up the steep dirt-road hills of this large urban city while [...] |
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