World Medical Association’s ethical research standards modernized on 60th anniversary to address evolving risks, ensure respect for all participants.

Catch up with the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 2024 AMA Interim Meeting concluded Nov. 12. The meeting highlights below would ...

Patients with chronic pain continue to face barriers to care, including stigma, regulations limiting medication access, and shortages of pain-management specialists. But progress is being made on the ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

Patient portals have evolved from offering self-service tools for clerical tasks such as bill paying and appointment setting, to more clinical applications such as entering remote physiological ...

In the unseen corners of our daily lives, tiny particles are quietly accumulating and finding their way into the food we eat, the water we drink, and even the air we breathe. These minuscule invaders, ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

When a physician asks about a mysterious, onerous or downright nonsensical task and is told that it’s due to “a regulatory requirement,” experts say that should be the beginning—not the end—of the ...

"One of the things that struck me immediately was the welcoming nature of folks who were in my local AMA chapter," said Dr. Suk, who is professor and chair of the Musculoskeletal Institute and the ...

The AMA has had success advocating improvements to the prior authorization process in state-regulated plans, as well as in health plans regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

They say awareness is the first step to creating change and it appears that an issue the AMA has been fighting for relentlessly—a permanent fix to the Medicare payment system—is being acknowledged at ...