Top stories in health and medicine, August 5, 2014
From MedPage Today:
Ebola: Hunt On to Treat, Prevent the ‘Merciless’ Virus. In the summer and fall of 1976, two outbreaks of a previously unknown hemorrhagic fever took place in Sudan and Zaire. There was — because of its very novelty — no specific treatment and no vaccine.
Four Things Mummies Tell Us About Atherosclerosis. A series of articles on the Horus study of mummies from around the world appearing in Global Heart showed just how universal atherosclerosis appears to have been across the millennia.
Survey: 1 In 5 Uninsured Don’t Want Coverage. Though millions of people gained health coverage this year as a result of the Affordable Care Act, millions more remain unaware of their options or have no interest in getting insured, a new survey has found.
Online Doc Reviews: Ignore Them at Your Peril.When a Yelp reviewer gave Justin Bazan, OD, at Park Slope Eye a one-star rating, Bazan felt it was only fair that he give his own view of the matter.
Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
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