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ACP position paper offers recommendations to improve care for unhoused people
The recommendations range from funding programs to address immediate health care needs to improving access to affordable housing and providing medical education about these issues.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/02/27/4.htm
27 Feb 2024
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/04/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Apr 2024
Is AI OK for IM?
While generative artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT could potentially revolutionize the practice of medicine, their role must be carefully assessed, with humans, especially physicians, in firm control of interpreting output.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/03/is-ai-ok-for-im.htm
1 Mar 2024
ACIP releases 2024 Adult Immunization Schedule featuring new vaccines
The latest recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) address vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus, mpox, COVID-19, and meningitis, among others.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/01/16/1.htm
16 Jan 2024
Shifts in insulin use
Physicians' management of patients who take insulin for diabetes has been influenced by changes in pricing and access to technology.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/02/shifts-in-insulin-use.htm
1 Feb 2024
Recombinant flu vaccine appears to provide benefit in patients ages 50 to 64 years
An industry-funded study compared a high-dose recombinant influenza vaccine with one of two standard-dose egg-based vaccines over two flu seasons and found patients who received a high-dose vaccine were less likely to test positive for flu.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/12/19/2.htm
19 Dec 2023
Now available: ACP's 2023 end-of-year graphic demonstrating ACP's advocacy in action
ACP's 2023 Advocacy Highlights graphic shows how the College addressed critical issues impacting internal medicine physicians and their patients this year.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/12/19/6.htm
19 Dec 2023
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/01/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Jan 2024
Personalized strategies improved cognition, reduced dementia risk in seniors
An intervention with personalized risk-reduction goals, health coaching, and nurse visits was offered to patients who were between the ages of 70 and 89 years and had at least two targeted risk factors for dementia.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/12/05/2.htm
5 Dec 2023
ACP commits to finding health care for unhoused people
Amid an increasing housing crisis, ACP developed a policy paper to address this population's health care needs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/04/acp-commits-to-finding-health-care-for-unhoused-people.htm
1 Apr 2024