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AMA-led federation letters oppose federal bill expanding pharmacists’ scope of practice and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.
Learn about existential health care ethics, a field aimed at addressing ethical questions about intersections of human extinction and health care.
Top choices and challenges may be different for each organization, but there are common themes. Here’s how to decide what works for your situation.
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Physicians are increasingly burdened by excessive “pajama time,” sacrificing personal and family time to complete administrative tasks outside of regular work hours. Exacerbated by the growing demands ...
Shingles affects about one out of three people in the U.S. in their lifetime. Additionally, about 1 million people get shingles each year in this country, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
The AMA works relentlessly to remove obstacles to patient care and bring consistent improvements in health outcomes and life expectancy to vulnerable patient populations.
CHICAGO — Innovative work to meet the urgent public health need for streamlined reporting and tracking of COVID-19 vaccinations is presented in today’s release of the 2022 Current Procedural ...
You’ve heard of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, but did you know there is also AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™? Learn about how to get continuing medical education (CME) credit for other educational ...
AMA survey of nearly 1,200 doctors offers four key insights into how physicians use and feel about augmented intelligence (AI) in medicine.
Body mass index (BMI) is easy to measure and cheap to do, but falls short in numerous ways at the individual patient level, says new AMA policy.