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CHEST issues a letter to Texas Governor Abbott regarding the "bathroom bills": July 28, 2017 - Stephen J. Welch, Executive Vice President & CEO of CHEST, issues a letter to Texas Governor Abbott regarding the "bathroom bills".
World Lung Cancer Day: July 19, 2017 - The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), alongside members of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) commemorates, celebrates and supports those impacted by lung cancer.
CHEST issues a letter to the Visitors and Conventions Bureau in Texas: June 20, 2017 - Stephen J. Welch, Executive Vice President & CEO of CHEST, issues a letter to the Visitors and Conventions Bureau in Texas regarding the "bathroom bills".; See all >

On first World Lung Day, September 25, global coalition of respiratory health organizations issues recommendations to improve lung health: September 22, 2017 - The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) has coordinated the first World Lung Day, September 25, which asserts that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals will not succeed without more attention to the burden of lung disease as outlined in their recent report The Global Impact of Respiratory Disease.
Cost-effective Imaging Can Determine Patients’ OSA Risk and Severity: September 12, 2017 - Researchers from the Center for Sleep & Circadian Neurobiology aimed to reproducibly quantify pharyngeal structures by using digital morphometrics based on a laser ruler, and to assess differences between subjects with OSA and control subjects and associations with apnea-hypopnea index (AHI).
American College of Chest Physicians Responds to DOT Withdrawal of Sleep Apnea Screening: August 25, 2017 - The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) is disappointed in the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) decision to abandon formal rulemaking for management of sleep apnea in commercial drivers and train engineers.; See all >

Critical Care Ultrasonography Integration Into Clinical Practice: September 19, 2017 - Dr. Ariel Shiloh discusses how to integrate critical care ultrasonography into clinical practice, and CHEST's Critical Care Ultrasonography live learning course.
How a CHEST Foundation grant changed Dr. Banerjee: September 14, 2017 - Debasree Banerjee, MD, MS received the CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, and was also a 2016 NetWorks Challenge Travel Grantee. Read our follow up interview with Dr. Banerjee on how the grants she’s received have impacted her and the work she is doing.
Hot in CHEST September 2017: September 07, 2017 - Each month, we ask Drs. Chris Carroll and Deep Ramachandran, Social Media Co-Editors of CHEST, to weigh in on the hot topics in CHEST. It's September, so let's hear from Dr. Carroll as he outlines his highlights.; See all >