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Big Pharma: No More Physician Freebies
July 10, 2008 2:13 PM by Lauren Meade
You could arrive home from your next conference a little more empty-handed than usual. The pharmaceutical industry is announcing a voluntary ban on doling pens, mugs, and other gifts as part of drug marketing campaigns. The ban does not place limits on Read More...
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ATS Coverage: Mind and Body
May 21, 2008 8:01 AM by Colleen Mullarkey
Another important theme at this year's ATS meeting is the importance of assessing not only physical health but also psychological well-being. A study at Harvard Medical School found mothers' levels of stress can influence the fetus's development of immunity Read More...
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ATS Coverage: COPD Awareness a Dominating Theme at 2008 Meeting
May 20, 2008 2:02 PM by Colleen Mullarkey
Raising COPD awareness certainly has been a dominating theme at this year's ATS conference. At this week's press breakfast with ATS Leadership, all three panel members mentioned this focus as an area that ATS will continue to promote. In a survey that Read More...
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ATS Coverage: COPD-The Rodney Dangerfield of Diseases
May 20, 2008 1:50 PM by Colleen Mullarkey
Attendees of the ATS President's Lecture today heard a different type of professional opinion than they have heard at this lecture in the past. Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, national spokesperson for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, served as Read More...
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AAAAI Coverage - Reaching a consensus in asthma care
March 20, 2008 3:01 PM by Kristen Ziegler
Rhythmic jazz music and the sweet scent of flowers filled the Philadelphia Convention center during my last visit for the Philadelphia Flower Show. This time, the sniffling was the same-blame it on Philadelphia's late winter weather-but the topic, pediatric Read More...
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AAAAI Coverage — Keynote Address
March 18, 2008 1:34 PM by Colleen Mullarkey
Kirk Walters of The Toledo Blade Technology in the 21 st century has eased us of most of the physical burdens our grandparents and great-grandparents had to endure, but certainly some of our modern-day conveniences have come at a price. Our society has Read More...
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AAAAI Coverage - Eat My Dust, Azma!
March 17, 2008 11:25 AM by Lauren Meade
When Jennifer Moyer Darr, LCSW, a social worker with the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colo., asked one of her young clients suffering asthma to draw her illness, Darr was puzzled by the crayon markings on the page. A clown named Read More...
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AAAAI annual meeting
March 14, 2008 3:27 PM by Lauren Meade
Roughly 7,000 physicians and health care practitioners are gathering in Philadelphia for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual conference (March 14 to 18). ADVANCE staffers will share highlights throughout the four-day convention Read More...
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