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The AAP held its first meeting in 1886. Some of the most important advances in biomedical science were first reported at annual AAP meetings. These included the discovery of insulin by Banting and Macleod in 1922, and discovery, by Minot and Murphy in 1926, that pernicious anemia could be treated by feeding patients extracts of raw liver.
The AAP News is the academy's official news magazine, [8] and Pediatrics is its flagship journal. [9] The AAP issues a weekly report [10] on COVID-19 cases in the United States. States began reporting COVID-19 cases on September 17, 2020. The AAP tracked 587,948 child COVID-19 cases, 5,016 child hospitalizations, and 109 child deaths. [11]
For the past 20 years, the APA has been one of the co-sponsors (along with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Pediatric Research) of the annual Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, the largest regular pediatric research meeting in the world. The APA also sponsors regional meetings and provides members with numerous forums ...
On April 28, 2010, Dr. Carola Eisenberg presented the first annual Leon Eisenberg Award for the Program in Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD), Children's Hospital Boston. She was a Guest of Honor each year at the annual Eisenberg Award presentation dinner, held at the MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
The conference attracts both individual and corporate researchers. [23] Once an intimate conference with only 300 attendees, the ARM has grown to host over 2,200 participants, [ 24 ] and rotates between Washington, DC, Boston, Orlando, San Diego, Seattle, and Chicago.
Business and economy India and China help boost Asian shares outside Japan by 1.7%. (Livemint) Ambac Financial Group announces that it may have to declare bankruptcy, though it is still in talks with its senior bondholders about a consensual rescheduling of its debts. Before the 2008 financial crisis, Ambac was one of the two dominant bond insurance companies. (Reuters) An examiner appointed ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
The annual broadcast would be halted after 1989, but would be revived in 2001. [ 112 ] Luna 13 , an uncrewed spacecraft launched toward the Moon by the Soviet Union from an Earth-orbiting platform, [ 113 ] made a soft landing at 1801 UTC (9:01 p.m. in Moscow) between craters Seleucus and Krafft [ 114 ] in the region of Oceanus Procellarum .