CHICAGO — CHICAGO --The American Medical Assn. board has rejected a $1.6-million loan request from its pioneering doctors union, touching off a battle for its survival. Dr. Mark Fox, president of the ...

A Louisiana physician poised to become president-elect of the American Medical Association founded a company that advises doctors on how to avoid malpractice suits, drawing criticism that his ...

The American Medical Association, Chicago, expects an operating profit of about $200,000 this year, despite another year of significant decline in membership revenue, officials said at the ...

CHICAGO, June 19 -- Doctors must be alert for signs and symptoms of bullying among children because the impact can have long-term mental health consequences, a report unanimously adopted Wednesday by ...

Physicians for Responsible Negotiation, the union of doctors created in 1999 by the American Medical Association, is in a state of financial life support, its unsteady fiscal heart still beating, but ...

CHICAGO, June 15 -- The nation's largest doctors group will consider joining the push to limit the hours of overworked medical residents, amid reports of physicians-in-training falling asleep during ...

The American Medical Association endorsed a new 80-hour-a-week work limit for medical residents Thursday to try to keep doctors-in-training from becoming so bleary-eyed they hurt themselves or their ...

The American Medical Association on Tuesday urged researchers to study whether financial incentives would ease the nation's critical shortage of transplant organs. The AMA's policymaking House of ...

CHICAGO — The American Medical Association on Thursday endorsed work-hour limits for medical residents amid concern about errors that could harm patients and about the doctors in training themselves.

A Louisiana physician poised to become president-elect of the American Medical Association founded a company that advises doctors on how to avoid malpractice suits, drawing criticism that his ...