Advocacy

Endocrine Insider - May 13, 2010

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Endocrine Society Members Advocate on Capitol Hill
Members of The Endocrine Society's Advocacy and Public Outreach Core Committee (APOCC) visited Capitol Hill on April 29, 2010 to discuss issues of concern to the Society's membership with key House and Senate offices...

 
Endocrine Society President Goes to White House to Discuss First Lady’s Obesity Campaign
Endocrine Society President Robert Vigersky met with the key White House staff involved in implementing First Lady Michelle Obama’s pediatric obesity campaign discuss the Society’s involvement in the campaign...

 
Society Continues to Inform Debate on EDCs; President’s Cancer Panel Echoes Society Recommendations
Last week, the President’s Cancer Panel released its 2008-2009 report “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now.” The report presents several recommendations for reducing the public’s risk of environmentally related cancer...

 
The Endocrine Society in the New York Times, NBC Nightly News and The Today Show
This month The Endocrine Society appeared in several high profile media outlets. In his blog on The New York Times Web site, Nicholas Kristof wrote about the new warning from the President’s Cancer Panel...

 
CMS Announces Implementation of New DXA Payment Rates
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in the May 12th Federal Register that the new payment rates for DXA that were passed as part of the Affordable Care Act will go into effect on June 1, 2010...