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      <title>Off Duty RT: Young Therapist Shares Her Good Samaritan Stories</title>
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      <title>WAVE Program Aims to Improve Patient Safety</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC Board of Directors has issued a call for candidates for the Executive Director position of the AARC. Sam Giordano, Executive Director for more than 30 years, announced his retirement effective June 1. The AARC Board will be conducting a search for his replacement in the coming months.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Links to Pulmonary Hypertension Association</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC maintains a list of links to other groups and organizations on its website, and we’ve just added one more to the collection.]]></description>
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      <title>Good Press: AARC Members in the News</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check our our latest list of newsmakers.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC’s partner in many COPD awareness initiatives, the COPD Foundation, has announced the appointment of Dave Barringer, former senior vice president of Member Relations for Goodwill Industries International, as COPDF’s new executive director effective January 1, 2012.]]></description>
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      <title>App Brings AARConnect To You from Your Phone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARConnect, the social network that connects you member to member, now has an app that allows you to read and respond directly to discussions right from your phone.]]></description>
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      <title>Section Members Earn a Bonus Webcast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This year, each Specialty Section will have a bonus webcast opportunity, meaning that the live webcast and the archived webcast and test will be offered free of charge to members of that section.]]></description>
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      <title>Parties Mark Dr. Helmholz’ 100th Birthday</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photos from Dr. Fred Helmholz’ 100th birthday on Dec. 27, 2011.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC was just contacted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking for assistance in communicating to respiratory therapists about the imminent phase out of over-the-counter Primatene Mist.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We have another great list of newsmakers to share.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened up the application process for its 2012 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management.]]></description>
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      <title>Italian Translation of A Guide to Aerosol Delivery Devices for Respiratory Therapists Now Available</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC has added to its international offerings with the recent translation of A Guide to Aerosol Delivery Devices for Respiratory Therapists.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last year, the AARC published A Patient’s Guide to Aerosol Drug Delivery to provide patients and families with step-by-step guidance on how to take their medications and care for their devices.]]></description>
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      <title>COPD Month Offers Time to Reflect on Successes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As we celebrate COPD Awareness Month and World COPD Day on Nov. 16, the AARC asks you to think about the successes we’ve all shared in this year.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC and other health care groups have written to Congress in opposition of S.J. Res. 27, a resolution by Senator Rand Paul that employs the Congressional Review Act to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency’s final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.]]></description>
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