Top stories in health and medicine, August 21, 2014

From MedPage Today: Nutrition Experts Like ‘Outdated’ Foods Initiative. Public health specialists offered high praise for an initiative by a former Trader Joe’s executive that will funnel unwanted produce into stores in low-income areas. Doctors’ Spouses: What’s Not to Like? When it comes to domestic life for physicians, things have changed since an oversexed and gory 1971 film with Gene Hackman called “Doctors’ Wives” featured as one of its taglines, “Doctors’ wives have everything. Except husbands.” Clarithromycin May Boost Risk of Cardiac Death. The antibiotic clarithromycin was associated with a significantly increased risk for cardiac death. The MRI Enigma in Spine Injury Clearance. Removing a cervical collar in the early aftermath of a traumatic injury is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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