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2025 AMA advocacy priorities: Medicare payment, prior authorization, physician burnout and more
The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the pressing issues facing physicians with AMA President Bruce Scott, MD.
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Why lifestyle medicine is growing so fast and the benefits of a lifestyle medicine certification
How to be healthy in the new year: What is lifestyle medicine? Does lifestyle medicine work? What are the benefits of lifestyle medicine? How to become a lifestyle medicine doctor? Our guest and chair ...
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AMA Guides® Editorial Panel members
The AMA has convened diverse experts with deep expertise across a broad range of medical topics to serve as the AMA Guides® Editorial Panel (the Guides Panel). This group includes physicians, allied ...
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With STIs on rise among older adults, here’s what doctors can do
Don’t be afraid to talk with patients 65 or older about safer sex practices. Vaccination options also can help prevent STIs. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for adults 65 or older have more ...
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Seeing the risks of letting optometrists do eyelid surgery
Over a dozen states let optometrists wield a scalpel on the eyelid, opening up patients to missed cancers, unsafe procedures and more. This legal trend is one that deeply concerns Iowa ophthalmologist ...
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Fighting for physicians’ right to access mental health care
As health system leaders create programs to help physicians struggling with burnout, it turns out that there’s an additional step: Making them feel safe to access the medical care they need to stay ...
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How women physicians can find balance in—and out of—the workplace
For women physicians—who often wear many other hats in addition to doctor—finding work-life balance can be difficult. This is because there are many challenges that women in medicine face compared ...
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California wildfire smoke and how to improve air quality during wildfires, plus norovirus treatments
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 ...
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AMA’s first chief health equity officer to depart at year’s end
Under Dr. Aletha Maybank’s direction and guidance, the AMA has become a relevant national voice on equity in medicine and an important ally to organizations that have long been committed to this work.
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AI scribes for clinicians: How ambient listening in medicine works and future AI use cases
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 ...
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Raw milk: Questions patients may have and how to answer
Milk and dairy products offer nutritional benefits. But raw milk—that is, unpasteurized milk—can contain harmful bacteria and pose significant health risks. AMA membership offers unique access to ...