End-of-life care can be complicated for patients and physicians. Learn how the AMA can help your residents meet this challenge head-on.

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 ...

Two doses of MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles. With dozens hospitalized in multiple states, the AMA’s president urges vaccination. The AMA is urging everyone who isn’t already ...

It takes more than words to show gratitude to physicians. These concrete steps can help doctors feel valued and protect against burnout. Good health care leaders realize that physicians need more than ...

Also called whooping cough, pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory infection. Alyssa Kuban, MD, of Texas Children’s Pediatrics shares more. It may start with a sniffle or a mild cough—like a ...

The high court will decide the fate of ACA provision that is estimated to save more than 100,000 lives annually.

If 10 unvaccinated people are in a room with someone with the measles, nine will get infected. Two physicians share how to prevent measles. There has been a recent resurgence of measles in the U.S.

Health insurers’ use of AI is bringing a new level of concern to the burdensome payer cost-control practice known as prior authorization. In a recently released AMA survey (PDF), 61% of physicians ...

Congress is on the verge of abandoning patients and physicians by adopting a short-term funding deal that fails to address broken Medicare pay system. A short-term funding bill unveiled over the ...

Stop grading the doctor on parking or the cafeteria food, says R. John Sawyer, PhD, of Ochsner Health. Here’s how to find and use metrics that matter. As high achievers, physicians have been ...

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 ...