What sets ACSM apart from other sports medicine schools or programs across the country? Our name can be a bit deceiving. We’re actually not a “college” in the traditional sense of the word, but rather the world’s largest professional sports medicine and exercise science organization. We also certify health and fitness professionals such as personal [...]

Despite feeling dizzy and under the weather, I sat down with President of the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), Roberta Wager, or Bobbi.  Her passion for the AAKP as a patient organization for the service of kidney patients was inspiring, to say the least.  I asked Bobbi about the AAKP, what the organization stands [...]

“National Health Council” The National Health Council is an organization dedicated to bringing together all segments of the health care community in effort to provide a united voice for people with chronic diseases and disabilities and their family caregivers.  It is made up of more than 100 national health-related organizations, including 50 of the nation’s [...]

Merry Band of Litigators The self-proclaimed ‘Merry Band of Litigators’ at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit, pro bono civil liberties law firm, ensures that the basic rights of everyday individuals go unhampered.  Their cases typically involve people’s basic constitutional rights being attacked when special interest groups team up with the government to pass laws [...]

Across the country, children as well as adults living with autism are going about living their lives; they have greater access to opportunities to learn, work, and enjoy recreational activities. In order to further promote the safe practice of such leisurely activities, the Autism Society of America has launched the Safe and Sound Campaign, in [...]

Although autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is traditionally seen as a genetically-based, neurological and life-long condition, recent studies have put the incidence of ASD at an alarming rate of 1 in 150 births, and as a result there has been an increase in attention given to possible environmental factors as culprits for the symptoms known as [...]