The FY 2016 omnibus appropriations bill moving through Congress includes notable wins for the preventive medicine community, including enhanced funding for preventive medicine residency training [...]
Two of ACPM’s recommendations submitted earlier this year for the Choosing Wisely Initiative have been published in Consumer Reports to promote better understanding of [...]
Leveraging its Washington, DC-area location of Preventive Medicine 2016, ACPM is organizing an all-day advocacy day for its members on February 24, 2016. ACPM will provide breakfast and [...]
Read the December 21, 2015 edition of ACPM Headlines. ACPM Headlines 12/21/15http://www.acpm.org/news/266963/http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.acpm.org/resource/rss/news.rss News & Press [...]
Per capita spending in public health has dropped 9.3% since 2008, including a $40.2 billion decrease in disease-prevention and related programs through 2014, according to [...]
“MSHA has been working hard to address the lessons learned from Sago and other mining tragedies to ensure that all miners can put in their shift and return home to their loved ones safe and [...]
All Christmas trees can burn, but dry ones can be engulfed by flames significantly more quickly. NFPA Offers Post-Christmas Fire Safety [...]
“The coming months will be absolutely critical,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, special representative of the director-general for the Ebola response at WHO. “WHO will maintain [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard closed a portion of the Mississippi River near St. Louis to traffic Dec. 29 because of high water, with the river expected to crest there Dec. 30. Worst Flooding in 20 Years [...]
An oil rig based in the North Sea, it capsized and sank Dec. 27, 1965, while being moved to a new location, killing 13 workers and injuring five others. Sea Gem Disaster Victims Remembered, [...]
