ACP Says New Recommendations from NASEM Could Help Strengthen Primary Care Medicine
Washington, D.C. May 4, 2021 – A new set of recommendations released today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) could help to improve primary care medicine for patients and physicians, said the American College of Physicians (ACP). Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care analyzes the challenges facing primary care and lays out an implementation plan for strengthening primary care medicine.
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ACP Strongly Supports FDA’s Plan to Ban Menthol Cigarettes In the U.S.
Statement attributable to:
Jacqueline W. Fincher, MD, MACP
President, American College of Physicians
Washington, D.C. April 29, 2021 – The American College of Physicians (ACP) is pleased that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take steps to ban menthol cigarettes across the nation and believes this plan will greatly strengthen public health in America. ACP also supports the FDA’s proposal to prohibit flavored cigars, including those with menthol.
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ACP releases new recommendations for appropriate use of high-flow nasal oxygen in hospitalized patients with acute respiratory failure
PHILADELPHIA, April 27, 2021 – The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released a new Clinical Guideline with recommendations for the appropriate use of high-flow nasal oxygen in hospitalized patients for initial or post-extubation management of acute respiratory failure. The new, evidence-based clinical guideline was published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
ACP Calls for Improving Privacy Protections to Increase Trust in Digital Health Technology
Washington, DC (April 27, 2020) — Today the American College of Physicians (ACP) released a new policy paper that seeks to improve the existing health information privacy framework and expand similar privacy guardrails in which physicians have practiced for decades to entities that are not currently governed by privacy laws and regulations.