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American Thoracic Society (ATS ), established in 1905, is an independently incorporated, international, educational and scientific society, serving its 18,000 members world-wide who are dedicated in respiratory and critical care medicine. The Society aims to help to prevent and fight respiratory disease by promoting research, education, patient care, and advocacy, ultimately to decrease morbidity and mortality from respiratory diseases. Intensive care medicine or critical care medicine is concerned with providing greater than ordinary medical care and observation to people in a critical or unstable condition. ...
Diseases of the mamalian Respiratory system are classified physiologically into obstructive (i. ...
In medicine, epidemiology and actuarial science, the term morbidity can refer to the state of being diseased (from Latin morbidus: sick, unhealthy), the degree or severity of a disease, the prevalence of a disease: the total number of cases in a particular population at a particular point in time, the...
History - 1905, American Sanatorium Association, established as a division of the American Lung Association, was devoted to the prevention, control and treatment of tuberculosis at that time[1];
- 1938, the American Sanatorium Association changed its name to the American Trudeau Society, after Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.
- 1960, the American Trudeau Society changed its name to the American Thoracic Society.
- 2000, the American Thoracic Society was separated from the American Lung Association.
The American Lung Association is a non-profit organization which fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health. It was founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis as the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. ...
Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease that is caused by mycobacteria, primarily Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...
Dr. Edward Trudeau Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau, MD, MS, D. Hon, (1848-1915) was an American doctor who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis. ...
Conferences - The Society holds its annual international conference in May. There are about 15,000 doctors and scientists from all over the world to attend.
Periodicals - The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM)
- The American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (AJRCMB)
- The Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society (PATS)
See also The American Lung Association is a non-profit organization which fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health. It was founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis as the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. ...
Dr. Edward Trudeau Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau, MD, MS, D. Hon, (1848-1915) was an American doctor who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis. ...
References - ^ Joseph Wallace, Colleagues in Discovery: One Hundred Years of Improving Respiratory Health. ISBN-10: 1931688176.
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