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American Heart Association seats new president and officers as chairman enters 2nd of two-year term
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- Written by Cathy Lewis
- Category: Health News
Dallas, Texas - American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, enters its 2018-19 fiscal year on July 1 with Jim Postl returning as chairman, Ivor Benjamin, M.D., serving as president and a cadre of new national board members providing governance support. From pioneering frontiers in precision medicine to accelerating drug discovery, the organization is making significant strides in fulfilling its mission.
If physicians face legal threat, AMA Litigation Center has their backs
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- Written by Andis Robeznieks
- Category: Latest News
Washington, DC - If you can imagine checking your internet news feed to see if your work influenced the U.S. Supreme Court, then perhaps you have an idea what it’s like to work for the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies.
Add a pharmacist to the team to see better outcomes
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- Written by Sara Berg
- Category: Medical News
Portland, Oregon - The addition of a pharmacist into a team-based care practice model can improve patient outcomes. As key partners in patient care, pharmacists take on a variety of roles, such as helping get a patient’s diabetes or hypertension under control.
Leading health organizations collaborate with industry on new initiative to combat growing diabetes and cardiovascular disease threat
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- Written by Maggie Francis
- Category: Health News
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) today announced the start of a new multi-year collaborative initiative supported by founding sponsors Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), and Novo Nordisk. The initiative’s goal is to help people with type 2 diabetes reduce their risk of disability and death due to cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke. Additional support for the initiative is provided by national sponsor, Sanofi.
More than $28 million awarded for new atrial fibrillation research centers to improve patient outcomes
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- Written by Jennifer Pratt
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The American Heart Association—the world’s leading voluntary organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke—announced today research grants totaling more than $28 million to the scientific teams that will create a new research network focused on understanding the causes of atrial fibrillation (AFib). The new knowledge they discover will provide a basis to generate more effective ways to treat and prevent the disease.
Unprecedented innovative hospital certifications aim to improve in-hospital cardiovascular patient care
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- Written by Tracie Bertaut
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A portfolio of joint programs that support a high standard of cardiovascular care for hospitals will help ensure patients have access to the most evidence-based care available. The American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and The Joint Commission, the nation’s largest independent healthcare evaluation organization, are joining forces to provide an unprecedented focus on enhancing cardiovascular patient care through a range of innovative disease-specific hospital certifications while improving outcomes for those hospitalized with cardiovascular conditions, the number one cause of death in the United States.
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