Top stories in health and medicine, October 6, 2014

From MedPage Today: Dallas Ebola Case a Distraction. Lost in all the brouhaha about the Dallas Ebola case is one salient fact: Thomas Eric Duncan, now reportedly in serious condition in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, didn’t catch the virus in the U.S. He caught it some 5,700 miles away in Liberia. RA and Cancer: Can Biologics Lower Risk? Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors had lower rates of incident cancer compared with those on conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Heroin Deaths Still Rising, CDC Says. More data from the CDC are pointing to an increase in heroin overdose deaths. Dallas Hospital Changes Its Story. Late Friday officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said that the nurses and doctors who initially treated and released an Ebola patient knew that the man, Thomas E. Duncan, had recently arrived from Liberia. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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