Mentee applications for the 2025 APCCMPD and CHEST Medical Educator Scholar Diversity Fellowship are now open, offering fellows the chance to receive mentorship and advanced training in respiratory care.
CHEST announced the recipients of quality improvement grants aimed at shortening the time to diagnosis for interstitial lung disease.Â
ATS, ALA, and Chest will provide $420,000 to sponsor a scholar in pulmonary and critical care medicine in the prestigious Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program. Applications are accepted until March 16, 2022.
Leading health organizations say a national plan against COVID-19 is urgently needed to ensure an effective response and save lives, beginning with appropriate PPE for healthcare workers.
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A joint statement from the ATS, ALA, Chest, and COPD Foundation emphasizes the importance of wearing masks and face coverings to prevent transmission of COVID-19.
Read MoreSerum immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels can help signal which COPD patients are at higher risk for hospitalization, a Chest study found.
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New research, published in CHEST, questions using fever as an indicator for needing to take a blood culture in community-acquired pneumonia cases.
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The ATS 2020 Conference scheduled for May in Philadelphia has been canceled, but Chest Congress in Bologna Italy in June is going forward.
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The American College of Chest Physicians will integrate operations of the National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC).
Read MoreThe American College of Chest Physicians (Chest) has updated its evidence-based guidelines on antithrombotic therapy for atrial fibrillation (AFib).
Read MoreThe strategic initiative will focused on increasing recognition that the way a medicine is delivered in evaluating a patient’s COPD therapy.
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As part of COPD Awareness Month in November, the CHEST Foundation and Sunovion Pharmaceuticals are encouraging Hispanics to learn more about COPD, and if they are at risk, to get tested.
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“Tome Un Respiro” is a Spanish-language campaign to raise awareness among Hispanics in the US about the prevalence, treatment options, and disease management of COPD.
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Experts from the world’s leading lung organizations, including the ATS, ERS and ACCP, are calling on governments to ban or restrict the use of e-cigarettes until their health impacts are better known.
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The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) has published new guidelines for the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). including 79 recommendations and expert consensus statements to aid clinicians in the management of PAH using the latest drug therapies for adults with the condition.
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