Top stories in health and medicine, September 12, 2014

From MedPage Today: Price Tag on Old Insulin Skyrockets. Retired nurse Mary Smith was having trouble controlling her type 2 diabetes on her regular insulin regimen, so her doctor decided to put her on something stronger. Bedside Ultrasound: Sorting Shadows. In medicine, we frequently propagate half-truths and unsubstantiated certainties. Thus, truth is a relative experience, dependent primarily upon how we choose to define it, rather than any concrete state of reality. Medicare GME $$$: What Should They Buy? Should Medicare start paying for health economists’ PhDs if they result in a better healthcare system? Early Data for HER2 Breast Ca Vax Promising. A cancer vaccine derived from HER2 protein demonstrated safety and preliminary evidence of activity in a randomized trial of patients with breast cancer. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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