Philadelphia, PA, October 25, 2020 – The American College of Physicians (ACP), on behalf of internal medicine physicians (internists) and related subspecialists, says that statements, including by President Trump, falsely accusing physicians of attributing deaths to COVID-19 for financial gain represent a reprehensible attack on physicians’ ethics and professionalism. Internists and other frontline physicians play […]
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Physicians Concerned about Health Impact of President Trump’s Plan to Suspend All Immigration
Washington, DC, April 21, 2020 – Statement attributable to: Robert McLean, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians The American College of Physicians (ACP) is extremely concerned about the potential health impact of President Trump’s announcement that he intends to issue an Executive Order to suspend all immigration to the U.S. Such a broad-brush approach, especially […]
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American College of Physicians Calls for Comprehensive Reform of U.S. Health Care
Washington, D.C. January 20, 2020—The American College of Physicians (ACP) today issued a bold call to action challenging the U.S. to implement systematic reform of the health care system, and released an ambitious new vision for a better health care system for all and expansive policy recommendations for how to achieve it. The series of policy papers […]
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Annals of Medicine: Gun laws stopped mass shootings in Australia
March 13, 2018 – The odds of a 22-year absence of mass shootings in Australia since 1996 gun reforms being due to chance are one in 200,000, new research reveals. Published in the Annals of Medicine, scholars at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University used mathematical techniques to test the null hypothesis that the […]
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Two large studies link higher coffee consumption to reduced risk for death
July 10, 2017 – Two new studies published in Annals of Internal Medicine seem to confirm the mortality benefits of higher coffee consumption. The first study found that compared to non-coffee drinkers, those who consume the most coffee have a significantly lower risk for death. The study, conducted in 10 European countries, was the largest […]
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American College of Physicians: Time to move away from debate over repealing and replacing ACA
May 23, 2017 – The American College of Physicians today released a set of recommendations aimed at providing a forward-thinking agenda for health care reform, ‘A Prescription for a Forward-Looking Agenda to Improve American Health Care.’ The paper articulates ACP’s view that now is the time to move away from the debate over repealing and […]
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American College of Physicians decries devastating impact of Trump’s climate change order
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2017 – President Trump’s executive order on climate change will have a devastating impact on public health, said the American College of Physicians (ACP) today. President Trump signed an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to roll back the major ways that the U.S. is combatting air pollution. “Today’s executive […]