Top stories in health and medicine, September 5, 2014

From MedPage Today: Potent Statin Offers No Help After Cardiac Surgery. The powerful lipid-lowering drug rosuvastatin (Crestor) — also purported to be an effective anti-inflammatory agent — was powerless to prevent postoperative cardiac surgery complications such as atrial fibrillation. Questioning Medicine: The Pain Management Fiasco. I spent my intern year at a community hospital that was equipped with an acute detoxification center. I was exposed to addiction routinely. PD-1 Blocker OK’d for Advanced Melanoma. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has won FDA approval for treating advanced or unresectable melanoma in patients not responding to other therapies. ‘Jolie Effect’ Drives Genetic Test Referrals. Referrals for genetic testing almost doubled in the first 6 months after actress Angelina Jolie announced that she would undergo bilateral mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 mutation. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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