CBO report implications; New ACP Resource; EO prompts concern

External URL
https://www.healthbanks.com/PatientPortal/NewsletterArchive.aspx?UCID={F151DAE7-AF91-4D5B-B402-126BDDEFC59F}&Date=06/09/2017
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP Advocate
Summary
A look at the updated CBO report on the AHCA; Exploring ACP's High Value Care Coordination Toolkit; Trump religious freedom Executive Order could violate patient's rights

Medical Societies Decry Trump's Ditching Paris Climate Accord

External URL
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/881086
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP in the News
Journal Name
Medscape

ACP Decries Withdrawal from Climate Agreement

Washington (June 1, 2017)—The United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement will greatly undermine the global effort to prevent and mitigate the devastating impact of climate change on human health, said the American College of Physicians (ACP) today. President Trump announced this afternoon that the U.S. will withdraw from the multi-national 2015 agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The push for clinicians to talk more about health costs

External URL
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170601/NEWS/170609984
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP in the News
Journal Name
Modern Healthcare

Watch: ACP Advocacy in Action

External URL
https://www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom/multimedia/?bclid=782539369001&bctid=5145305214001
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP in the News
Journal Name
Various

ACP Brings Prescription to Improve American Health Care to Congress

Washington, D.C.

Trump's Budget: A Body Blow to Healthcare and Science

External URL
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/65531
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP in the News
Journal Name
MedPage Today

Update on Congressional Activity; Recent Budget Agreement; Practice Transformation Tools

External URL
https://www.healthbanks.com/PatientPortal/NewsletterArchive.aspx?UCID={F151DAE7-AF91-4D5B-B402-126BDDEFC59F}&Date=05/19/2017
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP Advocate
Summary
Coalition of primary care docs take to the Hill against AHCA; ACP reacts to recent budget agreement; An in-depth look at TCPi resources

Poll: Doctors Are Still Prescribing Lots Of Opioids For Low Back Pain

External URL
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/19/528516985/poll-doctors-are-still-prescribing-lots-of-opioids-for-low-back-pain
ACP Lastest Link Type
ACP in the News
Journal Name
NPR

American College of Physicians issues guideline for treating low bone density or osteoporosis to prevent fractures in women and men

About 50 percent of Americans older than 50 are at risk for osteoporotic fracture

Philadelphia, May 9, 2017 -- The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends in an evidence-based clinical practice guideline published today in Annals of Internal Medicine that physicians treat women with osteoporosis with bisphosphonates (alendronate, risedronate, or zoledronic acid) or denosumab, a biologic agent.

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