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85% of Healthcare Professionals Surveyed at Last Year's Inaugural Meeting Believe Wound Care Should be a Medical Specialty CHICAGO, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by The American College Of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair: WHAT: The American College Of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair (ACWHTR) Second Annual Meeting. WHO: Multidisciplinary faculty of opinion leaders will address scientific breakthroughs, policy and regulatory issues facing...

Ranked as one of the top clinical GI journals BETHESDA, Md., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Journal of Gastroenterology increased its impact factor from 6.88 in 2010 to 7.28 in 2011, a measure of the number of citations a journal receives to articles published in the past two years. With this strong showing on a quantitative measure of a journal's importance and standing within its field, AJG ranks sixth out of seventy-four scientific journals in...

BRYN MAWR, Pa., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Regardless of whether the minimum essential coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act is declared constitutional, the Supreme Court decision that will be released tomorrow will have a profound impact on health insurance and the financial services industry. In an effort to help financial services professionals fully understand the implications of the court's ruling, The American College is sponsoring a free 30-minute...

CHICAGO, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), OneBreath®, the COPD Alliance, and thousands of organizations worldwide will unite on World Spirometry Day, June 27, to promote lung health and elevate the status of often overlooked lung conditions, reinforcing the value of spirometry in the diagnosis of these conditions. Spirometry, which translated means "measuring of breath," is one of the few examinations in medicine that is extremely...

National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute and Datalys Center Announce Partnership Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) June 22, 2012 The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute (NYSHSI) and The Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention (Datalys Center) have joined forces to create a better environment for youth sports by furthering relevant research. At the recent annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, NYSHSI announced a Call to Action for a...

TAMPA, Fla., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE), which represents more than 10,000 high-level physician leaders in all types of health care organizations across the U.S., today announced its support for the CEO Checklist for High Value Health Care and asked to join the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care as a co-signatory. "The current climate of excessive costs and unreliable outcomes present in...

Surgeons call on quality improvement programs to drive better outcomes and care at a lower cost CHICAGO, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American College of Surgeons (ACS) hosted a Surgical Health Care Quality Forum in Boston on June 4, with health care policy and clinical experts to discuss how quality surgical care not only delivers better patient outcomes, but also better financial outcomes - a critical yet often overlooked component of surgical quality programs. "If...

BRYN MAWR, Pa., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new study released by The State Farm® Center for Women and Financial Services at The American College, women - whether they're working or a stay-at-home mom, single or married - women are most at risk both physically and financially when it comes to disability. Fifty percent of women say that if they were to become disabled, the impact on their household's finances would be at least "somewhat devastating." In fact, 18...

BETHESDA, Md., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a career that spanned nearly half a century, Dr. David L. Rimoin, founding president of ACMG and in many ways the founder of one of the most fast-paced specialties in modern clinical medicine, passed away on Sunday May 27, 2012 in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer, which had only been diagnosed a few days before. Dr. Rimoin was a giant in the field of medical genetics. He leaves not only an enduring legacy but also a...

CHICAGO, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), the authority on children's oral health, inducted the new President and other Officers and Trustees for the AAPD Board of Trustees during its 65th Annual Session at the San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina on May 27, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100222/AAPDLOGO) Joel H. Berg, D.D.S., M.S., President. Berg has been a member of the AAPD for 26 years. He attended...