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Another reason to slap on the sunscreen? Lower vitamin D levels are linked with longevity. – ow.ly/fUPYA

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) December 13, 2012

Preventative pill-popping: Gentlemen, a multivitamin a day (for 10 yrs) won’t keep your cardiologist away. ow.ly/fII7L

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) December 9, 2012

Suffering for fashion in ‘vein’: ladies, those heels might look good, but, in vascular terms, they’re no good. ow.ly/fIHVz

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) December 7, 2012

While elsewhere on Twitter, old cheese, new viruses and the economics of open data all caught our eye…

Scientists have found traces of the world’s oldest cheese – and it would have tasted like mozzarella! bit.ly/UFHt5x

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) December 13, 2012

Newly-discovered #SARS-like virus can infect both humans & animal cells, virus origin still unknown scim.ag/T5N3AJ

— Martin Enserink (@martinenserink) December 11, 2012

Open data and health care. How scrutiny of freely available data might save the NHS money. economist.com/news/britain/2…

— Jon Lindberg (@JonPTLindberg) December 10, 2012