Search results for "Global Health"
Textbook edition reflects evolution of hospital medicine
The first update of “Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine” exemplifies how hospital medicine has evolved and the skills that hospitalists need to have.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/02/textbook.htm
1 Feb 2017
Problems and potential with probiotics
Probiotics are becoming more prevalent in both consumer and health care settings, but the excitement is tempered by problems, including how to define what is and what isn't one.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/01/problems-and-potential-with-probiotics.htm
1 Jan 2018
Officers and Regents election results announced
The election of Officers and Regents has been completed. Terms become effective at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting at Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 in Washington, D.C.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/03/regents.htm
1 Mar 2016
Ebola outbreak holds lessons for world health community
U.S. physicians who traveled to Africa to combat Ebola there brought home lessons for the world health community.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/06/ebola.htm
1 Jun 2015
Internal medicine can slow climate change, improve health
ACP is once again proactively addressing an issue of importance to human health: climate change.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/07/presidents.htm
1 Jul 2016
College-supported organization launches internal medicine program in Bhutan
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), an ACP-supported organization, announced the opening of a new internal medicine program in Bhutan at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) and the Royal Institute of Health Sciences (RIHS).
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/07/27/9.htm
27 Jul 2010
Cuba is just across the water, but medically, a different world
ACP Member Paul Drain explored Cuba's medical system and finds primary care broken down much differently than in the U.S., with more access resulting in less of a need for inpatient care. But the politics of re-establishing relations with the country are no less tenuous today than they've previously been.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/09/cuba.htm
1 Sep 2010
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to ACP Internist coverage of issues surround the time spent with patients, ICD-10 coding changes, and physician burnout.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/03/letters.htm
1 Mar 2015
New internal medicine residency gains foothold in Nepal
Patan Hospital of Nepal, a tertiary-level referral center that treats nearly 320,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients each year, began an internal medicine residency program last year.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/04/new-internal-medicine-residency-gains-foothold-in-nepal.htm
1 Apr 2018
ACG president seeks bigger role for women in health care
Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein, FACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/05/seventeen.htm
1 May 2008