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Surgery News

The Official Newspaper of the American College of Surgeons

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January 2012 (8160K PDF) | Interactive Version

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The American College of Surgeons is pleased to announce the launch of Surgery News UPDATE, a monthly e-newsletter created in partnership with Elsevier Global Medical News. Please click here to start receiving this essential, authoritative—and free!—resource.

Surgery News provides concise, cutting-edge reports from clinical meetings; reports on the politics affecting the surgical profession and the socioeconomic scene in Washington, DC, and at the state level; FDA actions and the results of clinical trials; expert commentary; reports on the business aspects of surgical practice today; and news from the College itself. The newspaper is being published as a cooperative endeavor of the American College of Surgeons and the Elsevier Society News Group, a unit of Elsevier/International Medical News Group.

Layton F. (Bing) Rikkers, MD, FACS, Editor in Chief
Professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Lynn Kahn, Director, Division of Integrated Communications
American College of Surgeons

Effective with the July 2007 issue, Surgery News in now available in an interactive format.

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Revised February 2, 2012