The American Medical Association (AMA) strongly supports the Surgeon General’s advisory announced today calling for immediate action to address the skyrocketing use of e-cigarettes by ...
Read More »Ten Health Recommendations for Successful New Year’s Resolutions
With the new year quickly approaching, the American Medical Association (AMA) is offering 10 recommendations to help Americans make the most impactful, long-lasting improvements to ...
Read More »AMA: Repealing Obamacare Would ‘Wreak Havoc on American Health Care’
Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision is a stunning display of judicial activism. Judicial power does not extend to settling policy disputes or exercising general supervision over ...
Read More »Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act Putting Law In Legal Peril — Again
The future of the Affordable Care Act is threatened — again — this time by a ruling Friday from a federal district court judge in ...
Read More »AMA, Pennsylvania Medical Society Release Study of PA Efforts to Reverse Opioid Epidemic
The American Medical Association (AMA), Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) and Manatt Health today released the first in a series of studies of state responses to ...
Read More »Republican Immigration Fight Overlooks Need For Doctors
ATLANTA — Dr. Alluri Raju, a native of India, vividly remembers how his ethnicity prompted concern and discrimination in the southwest Georgia town of Richland. ...
Read More »Trump Can’t Decide Healthcare Tactic While Promoting and Criticizing Obamacare
In the span of less than 12 hours last week, the Trump administration took two seemingly contradictory actions that could have profound effects on the ...
Read More »Health Care Tops Guns, Economy As Voters’ Top Issue In Midterm Elections
Health care has emerged as the top issue for voters headed into the midterm elections, but fewer than half of them say they are hearing ...
Read More »Primary Care Doctors ‘Not Doing Enough’ To Curb STDs
Julie Lopez, 21, has been tested regularly for sexually transmitted diseases since she was a teenager. But when Lopez first asked her primary care doctor ...
Read More »Millennials Often Spurn The ‘Family Doctor’ Model For Convenience, Fast Service Options
Calvin Brown doesn’t have a primary care doctor — and the peripatetic 23-year-old doesn’t want one. Since his graduation last year from the University of ...
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