Track the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting in Orlando, Florida. The 2024 AMA Interim Meeting—known as I24, for short—runs Nov. 8–12. The AMA helps physicians build a ...

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 ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in allergy and immunology? Meet Burcin Fraser, MD, an allergist and immunologist and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” ...

In delivering his penultimate address before the AMA House of Delegates (HOD), outgoing CEO James L. Madara, MD, reviewed the closing remarks that American presidents have offered at the end of their ...

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 ...

For many resident physicians, the end-of-year holiday season often means being far from home, working long hours in unfamiliar cities and missing cherished family traditions. While trading festive ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This column is part of a series of firsthand physician accounts that detail how AMA Health System Program members are moving medicine to support patient health and the medical profession. Physician ...

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 ...