Top stories in health and medicine, August 25, 2014

From MedPage Today: Futile ICU Care for Some Delays Care for Others. Providing futile care to ICU patients delayed care for other patients awaiting transfer into the ICU, according to a 3-month study of ICU practices at two hospitals. Lupus and the Atomic Bomb? In the early 1950s, with the expanding arms race of the Cold War, the U.S. Department of Energy chose a rural site in Fernald, Ohio, to build a uranium-processing plant that would supply the nation’s proliferating nuclear arsenal. Decades later, Fernald was a Superfund site following long-denied environmental contamination, and efforts to identify and analyze the myriad public health effects persist to this day. In CKD, Arterial Calcium Predicts CV Outcomes. In patients with chronic kidney disease, coronary artery calcium (CAC) level within blood vessel walls is a stronger predictor of cardiovascular risk than carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and ankle-brachial index (ABI). ACS Exec Exits After Projecting $40-Million Revenue Slump. Last summer the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced that Lin MacMaster had been hired as its first-ever Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer, a senior leadership position that combined the formerly separate functions of fundraising and marketing. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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