Top stories in health and medicine, August 26, 2014

From MedPage Today: Adrenaline: The Best and Worst of Drugs. Despite it being the first-line adrenergic drug for patients with cardiac arrest, few studies in humans have assessed epinephrine’s effectiveness. Increase E-Cig Regulation, Says AHA. The federal government should ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors just as it does cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products, wrote researchers in a policy statement issued by the American Heart Association. Physician Recruiters Chasing Primary Care Clinicians. Primary care continues to be in high demand with in-house physician recruiter jobs, and primary care job placements were up in 2013 over 2012, physician recruiters reported. A New Bar for T1D Antibody Tests? Endocrinologists have been using antibody tests to distinguish type 1 diabetes in tough cases for a long time, so it’s no wonder the FDA’s approval earlier this week of the ZnT8 antibody test as the “first” raised eyebrows. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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