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7 Feb 2024, 10:30 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
It was a pleasure to lead a joint statement by the American Thoracic Society/American Geriatrics Society (ATS/AGS) that offers guidance on designing policies governing decision making for unrepresented patients who lack capacity to make their own decisions and have no identified surrogate decision maker. [read post]
23 Dec 2023, 7:16 pm by admin
Every dog owner and lover has likely been told by a veterinarian, or the Humane Society, that we should resist their lupine entreaties and withhold chocolate, raisins, walnuts, avocados, and certain other human foods. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 7:15 pm by Kurt R. Karst
  The Kaplan Meier graph closely resembles one appearing in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Journal, a bi-weekly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Thoracic Society. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 7:55 am by Daniel Carpenter-Gold
Our clients are joined by governments at all levels, as well as major environmental and public-health organizations, all of whom are supporting Berkeley’s request to rehear the case en banc: The United States government, noting the disruption the panel opinion would have on the Department of Energy’s operations (the fact that the federal government has weighed in in is particularly notable, since it rarely argues against federal preemption and also rarely submits amicus briefs on the… [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 1:01 am by Simmons Hanly Conroy
  As a Switzerland-based respiratory health advocacy group established in 2002, the forum currently has more than 70,000 members throughout the world, representing organizations such as the American College of Chest Physicians, Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, European Respiratory Society, Pan African Thoracic Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana del Thorax. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 9:07 pm by Dan Flynn
Some examples of the other events that have drawn out Dr.Califf include: March-Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative Executive Committee -2000 STAT Breakthrough Science Summit April -2022 Health Datapalooza -National Institutute for HealhCare Managment -Drug Information Association -American Association for Cancer Research -National Academyof Medicine -Prescription and Illicit Drug Summitt -Health Journalism 2022 May -World Medicine… [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 8:30 am by Thomas W. Greeson
Last year, a formal joint request to reconsider the NCD was submitted to CMS by the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and American College of Radiology (ACR), and CMS received numerous comments from various stakeholders, including from the Association for Quality Imaging. [read post]
22 May 2021, 12:04 pm by admin
There was quite a bit of popular media reporting of the $117 million (compensatory and punitive damages) awarded by a Middlesex County, New Jersey, jury to a man who claimed his mesothelioma had been caused by his use of baby powder. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 12:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
" The Pick: Pope TM, Bennett J, Carson SC, et al, for the American Thoracic Society and American Geriatrics Society. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 3:54 am
According to the American Thoracic Society, less than 5% of lung nodules are actually cancerous. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 8:01 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
It has been professionally rewarding to co-author three policy statements on health care policy, ethics, and end-of-life care with the American Thoracic Society. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 11:49 am by Schachtman
Judge Jack noted that a consensus report of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine rejected the use of a B-read alone as sufficient to support a diagnosis of pneumoconiosis, and emphasized the views of one testifying physician that the “ILO guidelines, by their express terms, [were] ‘not supposed to be used for designation of disease or determining compensation. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 2:50 pm by Tom Smith
The American Thoracic Society issued guidelines Monday that suggest COVID-19 patients with pneumonia get doses of the anti-malaria drug. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 3:54 am
According to the American Thoracic Society, less than 5% of lung nodules are actually cancerous. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 10:00 pm by Munday & Nathan
Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) wrote in the Annals of American Thoracic Society journal on Aug. 1 that identifying common intensive care unit (ICU) diagnostic errors and reducing them is critical. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 1:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Whereas The American Thoracic Society (ATS), The American Association for Critical Care Nurses (AACN), The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), The European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), and the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) created an official policy statement in 2015 regarding how medical teams and facilities should respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatments. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:21 am
Nevertheless, according to the American Cancer Society, approximately 154,050 will have died of lung cancer by the end of the year. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 6:13 am by Robert Kraft
Spector highlights one recent study published in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and conducted by UNC School of Medicine, which “found that not only do e-cigarettes trigger the same immune responses that normal cigarettes do; they spur unique immune responses. [read post]