Internal Medicine 2014 presents latest prevention and treatment information for adult health care

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Contact: Steve Majewski SMajewski@acponline.org American College of Physicians

More than 6,000 internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, medical students, and allied health professionals from around the world will gather in Orlando for Internal Medicine 2014, the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP), April 10 - 12 (Thursday - Saturday), at the Orange County Convention Center. More than 200 sessions cover a broad array of clinical topics and health care policy issues.

Internal Medicine 2014 also features sessions that look at patient care through different lenses, such as "History of Medical Care through 100 Great Art Works" and "Guidelines or Constitution?: A Vignette from 19th-Century Medical Practice."

For the second consecutive year, ACP is partnering with Consumer Reports to hold a Patient Empowerment Expo. The Orlando area public is invited to come to the Hyatt Regency in Orlando on Saturday, April 12 from 8:00 a.m. to noon to learn about recommended screening tests, medical mistakes to avoid, and how to get the best value for your health care dollar.

"The Expo is part of ACP's High Value Care initiative, which includes helping patients become savvy consumers of what is necessary, beneficial preventive care and what might be unnecessary or even harmful testing," said Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, who is completing her one-year term as ACP's president.

Internal Medicine 2014 includes national abstract competitions for medical students and associate members. Finalists will compete onsite in four categories: Clinical Vignette, Basic Research, Clinical Research, Quality Improvement - Patient Safety. Oral presentations take place on April 11 and 12. Winners of the poster competitions will be announced on April 12 at 6:30 p.m.

On April 12 at 5:15 p.m., Internal Medicine 2014 Highlights and the final round of Doctor's Dilemma take place. Clinician-educators will share what they think are Internal Medicine 2014's most important take-home messages. Then the "Final Four" teams remaining in the Doctor's Dilemma competition -- a fast-paced, Jeopardy-style medical knowledge competition among students and residents -- will face off in the championship round. The winning team takes home the Osler Cup -- ACP's coveted trophy. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Doctor's Dilemma. The competition was the idea of ACP's Florida chapter in 1994.

During Internal Medicine 2014, David Fleming, MD, FACP, will become president of ACP and Robert Centor, MD, FACP will become chair of ACP's Board of Regents. Both terms are for one year.

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MEDIA ADVISORY: The 3rd Annual Conference on Medicine & Religion

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MEDIA ADVISORY: The 3rd Annual Conference on Medicine & Religion

WHAT: Conference: Responding to the Limits and Possibilities of the Body WHO: Health care professionals, scholars and students WHEN: March 7-9, 2014 WHERE: Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile HOW: RSVP to Daniel Kim, 773-702-0912

Medicine exists because of the limits and frailties of the human body, as well as its possibilities; and medicine is shaped by what we expect the body to be and do. As such, health care practices depend on and display answers to important questions about human embodiment, such as:

How is one's body related to oneself? What is a normal human body? What, if anything, does the human body tell us about how medicine should respond to bodily suffering and death? What kind of knowledge about human embodiment can science give, vis--vis the great religions?

The 3rd Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion invites health care professionals and scholars to reflect on these questions and their implications for contemporary medicine.

The conference is a forum for exchanging ideas from an array of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches, including both analytical and empirical scholarship, descriptions of what is as well as arguments about what should be, accounts of relevant experiences as well as reflections on the meaning of those experiences.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Baruch Brody, Rice University Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary M. Therese Lysaught, Loyola University Chicago Ingrid Mattson, Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario

The three-day conference invites participants to address these and other questions by looking to the traditions and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Experimental contact lens release glaucoma medicine

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BOSTON, March 5 (UPI) -- An experimental specially designed contact lens releases a glaucoma medicine at a steady rate for up to a month and corrects vision, U.S. researchers say.

Joseph Ciolino, an ophthalmologist, who, along with his mentor Daniel Kohane, developed the new contact lens at Harvard Medical School, said people using traditional eye drops for glaucoma "aren't getting any symptomatic relief, and they're not seeing better, so there's not a lot of motivation to be compliant with the medication."

Glaucoma is a group of conditions that can result in irreversible blindness. This vision loss can be reduced if glaucoma is found and treated early, most commonly with eye drops to lower pressure within the eye.

But using eye drops regularly can be a challenge and while the drops can minimize further vision loss, they don't repair vision that's already lost, Ciolino said.

Like a miniature doughnut stuffed inside a tiny pita pocket, a common glaucoma medicine is sandwiched inside this specially designed contact lens, Ciolino said.

In laboratory experiments, the lens, which can also correct vision, releases the eyesight-saving medication at a steady rate for up to a month. Its construction offers numerous potential clinical advantages over the standard glaucoma treatment and might have additional applications, such as delivering anti-inflammatory drugs or antibiotics to the eye.

The new lens is different from other prototypes because it's the many-layered construction that places a ring of drug-releasing film in standard, government-approved contact lens materials. Other designs have most often used a pre-made lens dipped in a drug solution, which then leached out into the eye rapidly and inconsistently, Kohane explained.

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Work launched in Camden on state's first 'Renaissance' school

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CAMDEN As contractors laid groundwork outside for the state's first "Renaissance" school, Gov. Christie and South Jersey political figures gathered inside - at the neighboring Cooper Medical School of Rowan University - to raise silver shovels to ceremonially launch the work.

KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy is slated to be the first of the hybrid district/charter schools established under the Urban Hope Act.

It will open in a temporary facility in the fall of 2014 with 100 kindergarten students, who will then move to the permanent 110,000-square-foot facility for elementary and middle school students in the fall of 2015, organizers say.

"This stuff isn't easy to do," Christie said of turning around the city's struggling public school district, "but nor should it be easy for us to continue to ignore these children. . . . We can rationalize as much as we like, but we have ignored their futures, and today is a symbol of the beginning of the end of that conduct."

The academy was created in a partnership among KIPP Charter Schools; the Cooper Foundation, which is the charitable arm of Cooper University Health Care; and the Norcross Foundation, created by the Norcross family, including George E. Norcross III, who is chairman of Cooper hospital and a managing partner of The Inquirer's parent company, and his brother, State Sen. Donald Norcross (D., Camden).

The facility will be the first of a projected five KIPP schools in a mini-network serving nearly 3,000 children. "Today is the most important day of anything we have ever done for the City of Camden, for the children, and for this region," said George Norcross. "Hopefully this will be replicated throughout this entire city, and 10 years from now children will have the education they deserve."

Under the Urban Hope Act, sponsored by Donald Norcross and Assemblymen Angel Fuentes and Gilbert "Whip" Wilson, both Camden Democrats, up to four Renaissance school operators each may be approved in Camden, Newark, and Trenton. Camden is the only city set to open one.

Two other school operators - Mastery Charter and Uncommon Schools - have been preliminarily approved to open Renaissance schools in Camden. They await final word from the state.

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Drexel Medical School Holds Affordable Care Signup Event

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) With the deadline to sign up for health insurance under Obamacare fast approaching, Drexel Medicine today hosted a sign-up event, targeting women in particular.

Today, certified application counselor Myra Shanks helped Garolyn Jones go through the signup process at healthcare.gov. Jones children are insured through her ex-husbands employer, but she has had no insurance since the divorce and it worries her.

I have children, and if I cant take care of myself physically, then I cant take care of my children. So I need insurance, she told KYW Newsradio.

Women are usually the family member who is taking care of their children, their partners, Wolf said today. Many of them are working and uninsured themselves. We have many, many safety net programs in place, but that means that people will go from one to the other to the next with lots of gaps in their care, she notes.

So, she says, she was delighted to partner with other nonprofits for the signup event, which drew people such as Monique, who mused about how a health issue may affect her financially.

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