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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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