Top stories in health and medicine, November 14, 2014

From MedPage Today: Future Uncertain for the National Children’s Study. What was once considered a ground-breaking U.S. study to track the health of children from birth to adulthood may be stopped before its official start, causing alarm for advocates and researchers who say its findings are crucial to developing prevention strategies for childhood illnesses like asthma, autism, and attention deficit disorder. Vitamin B Doesn’t Reduce Cognitive Risk in Healthy Elderly. Lowering plasma homocysteine levels with oral vitamin B12 and folic acid does not appear to be an effective strategy for reducing memory loss and Alzheimer’s risk. Information Does Not Equal Communication. Information is everything, communication is the key. Recently, we were contacted by the medical director of a subspecialist fellow’s practice at one of our affiliated hospitals. When Does Diabetes Really Start? For most of my professional life, a diagnosis of diabetes was made when the fasting blood glucose exceeded 140 mg/dL. In 1998, a consensus committee, based on an extensive review of data, changed that to 126 mg/dL. A normal fasting blood glucose was now 100 mg/dL. A glucose between those values is now impaired fasting glucose. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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