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.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Diabetes Endocrinology Heart Source Type: blogs
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