PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 19 [Category: Medical] -- The American College of Physicians issued the following news release: Reviews evidence of newer medications, recommends adding to metformin BOSTON April 19, 2024 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released an update of its 2017 guideline with clinical recommendations for the use of newer pharmacological treatments of adults with Type 2 diabetes. The clinical guideline is based on the best available evidence for effective  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 19 [Category: Medical] -- The American College of Physicians issued the following news release: BOSTON April 19, 2024 -Access to voting is critical to the health of patients, said leaders from the American College of Physicians (ACP). The remarks came during a press briefing today at Internal Medicine Meeting 2024, ACP's annual scientific meeting. "Now more than ever, we need to keep health and health care in mind as an election issue. As physicians, we need t  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 20 (TNSres) -- The American Dairy Science Association issued the following news release: * * * In a new Journal of Dairy Science(R) study, researchers have increased the quantity and quality of the available data on genetic traits related to feed efficiency and methane emissions. * * * Dairy herds of the future will need to be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions, while also feeding the world efficiently and with the lowest possible emissions f  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 19 [Category: Medical] -- The American College of Physicians issued the following news release: Authors discuss evidence-based research on obesity, antibiotic resistance, and type 2 diabetes BOSTON April 19, 2024 - Today at ACP's annual meeting, Internal Medicine Meeting 2024, Annals of Internal Medicine presented three breaking scientific research articles during a live scientific plenary session that featured the authors of those articles. The articles were   more

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, April 19 [Category: Materials Management] -- ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, which develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for materials, products, systems and services, issued the following news release: ASTM International presented its top annual award - the 2024 Award of Merit - to Benjamin Markel for his contributions to ASTM's refractories committee (C08). The prestigious award, which inc  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 19 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release: The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Children's Rights Committee has named Berks County attorney Ann Marie Cucinotta, juvenile court hearing officer, Berks County Office of Court Administration, Reading, as its Child Advocate of the Year. Cucinotta will receive the award at a luncheon ceremony during the committee's Current Issues for Child Advocates training on April 26 at the Pennsylva  more

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The ECRI Institute issued the following news release: ECRI, an independent, nonprofit patient safety organization that provides technology solutions and evidence-based guidance to healthcare decision-makers, has named Darryl Goss its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Goss has nearly 30 years of experience in senior leadership positions at public and private equity firms in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. "Technology and dat  more

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, April 19 [Category: Materials Management] -- ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, which develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for materials, products, systems and services, issued the following news release: Papers are invited for ASTM International's 2nd Bearing and Transmission Steels Technology Symposium, to be held May 7-9, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. The event is sponsored by ASTM International'  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release: Three lawyers are newly certified by the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Workers' Compensation Law Section as specialists in the practice of workers' compensation law. They join 161 lawyers currently holding certification. For a complete list of certified workers' compensation specialists, visit https://bit.ly/3UpvWAi. In 2012, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved a recommendation of  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 19 -- The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers issued the following statement on April 18, 2024: * * * This morning in City Council, Councilmembers Gilmore Richardson and Gauthier introduced a resolution in support of Representative Elizabeth Fiedler's Solar for Schools legislation. Good Morning, and it is a good morning--when we have both our city and state leaders united in a cause that will better the future for all of us, and most importantly for our chil  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers issued the statement: * * * Following Dr. Tony B. Watlington's announcement that the School District of Philadelphia will end its practice of leveling, PFT President Jerry T. Jordan issued the following statement: "The decision to eliminate leveling is a sound one and a very welcome one. It will allow both children and staff important stability at the start of the school year that will help set the trajectory for   more