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      <title>Good Press: AARC Members in the News</title>
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      <title>KRCS Helps Put Smoking Ban Over the Top</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Kansas Respiratory Care Society (KRCS) holds a legislative day at the state capitol building in Topeka every year, but this year’s event was especially memorable.]]></description>
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      <title>Congress, Summer Forum Programs Promise Career Boosting Content</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Program Committee members gathered in Dallas last weekend for their annual review of potential topics for the upcoming AARC International Respiratory Congress and Summer Forum.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Supports Tobacco Trafficking Bill</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC is on board with legislation aimed at preventing Internet and mail order tobacco sales to minors and ensuring state and local governments collect the cigarette taxes due them on such sales.]]></description>
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      <title>Outside Organizations Support PACT Mission in DC</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As your AARC Political Advocacy Contact Team (PACT) gets ready to go to Washington, DC, next week, official support from other organizations is helping to bolster their visits.]]></description>
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      <title>Good Press: AARC Members in the News</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here are our latest newsmakers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:05:36 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>New Safety Requirement Announced for LABAs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[FDA announced new safety requirements and future label changes for Long-Acting Beta Agonists (LABAs) used in the treatment of asthma.]]></description>
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      <title>EPA Rep Cites Ties to the RC Profession in Letter on Award</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC member Tracy Mitchell, RRT, AE-C, cites her ties to the profession in a new letter that just went out to encourage asthma management programs to apply for the 2010 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Headquarters Blanketed in Snow</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While we can’t claim the astounding snowfalls of our colleagues up North or back East, AARC offices were blanketed in snow this morning. That’s a rare treat in the Dallas, Texas ZIP codes. See the slideshow!]]></description>
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      <title>International Fellowship Program Looking For City Hosts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every year the American Respiratory Care Foundation (ARCF) sponsors an International Fellowship Program that brings respiratory professionals from other countries to our shores to learn more about American-style RT in two cities. Now is the time to volunteer to be a city host!]]></description>
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      <title>National Ventilator Survey: The Results Are In!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last fall the AARC surveyed the nation’s hospitals to determine how many ventilators are available. Conducted at the behest of the Department of Health and Human Services, the poll was aimed at helping government planners prepare for any health emergency involving a major respiratory component to care. Now the results are in!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We have another great list of newsmakers to share.]]></description>
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      <title>Help for Haiti: Respiratory Care Cares</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC is keeping close tabs on developments in Haiti and all the ways the respiratory community can and is helping with the relief efforts. Here are the first of our reports.]]></description>
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      <title>Winter Section Bulletins Online Now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC Specialty Sections have now published the Winter 2010 issues of their Bulletins online.]]></description>
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      <title>HHS Launches Web Site for Haiti Volunteers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new Department of Health and Human Services web site is providing much needed information to health care professionals who would like to volunteer to assist the victims of the Haitian earthquake.]]></description>
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      <title>Write to Congress for Better Pulmonary Care Services</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC is once again calling on respiratory therapists, their patients and their supporters to write to Congress to gain co-sponsors for the Medicare Pt B Respiratory Therapy Initiative (HR 1077 and S 343).]]></description>
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      <title>QRCR Open Enrollment Begins</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year again: hospitals, home care providers, and long-term care facilities have the opportunity to enroll/reenroll in the AARC’s Quality Respiratory Care Recognition (QRCR) program.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[See who’s been making news lately.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Represented at Opening of New Center</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Jan. 8, 2010, St. Mary’s Hospital celebrated the grand opening of a new pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation center named after Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, a national patient advocate for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Campaign.]]></description>
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      <title>New Concentrators Approved for Use on Aircraft</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If your patients need a portable oxygen concentrator (POC) when they travel by aircraft, you may be interested in knowing that, effective January 6, 2010 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) added four new POCs to the list of those devices they have determined are safe to carry on the plane as long as certain other standards are met.]]></description>
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      <title>National Influenza Vaccination Week—January 10–16, 2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Influenza vaccinations are still a key to further controlling outbreaks, even though we hear that cases of seasonal and H1N1 flu are slowing.]]></description>
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