The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the summer COVID strain for 2025 and more.

Bobby Mukkamala, MD, has held multiple leadership roles in organized medicine. But it took being a patient to get him fully ready to be AMA president. AMA President-elect Bobby Mukkamala, MD, has ...

As drafted, provisions in the budget-reconciliation bill passed by the House of Representatives would make medical school more expensive. The AMA is deeply concerned that provisions of the 2025 budget ...

New Mexico’s governor vetoes bill that would have set a “dangerous precedent for allowing optometrists to perform surgical procedures.” The AMA is fighting scope creep. The AMA is applauding New ...

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 ...

Exclusive AMA data shows that while job stress is easing and satisfaction is rising, each physician specialty requires targeted support. After years of rising, physician burnout rates are showing ...

The AMA Board of Trustees has chosen John Whyte, MD, MPH, a nationally renowned public health advocate, physician executive, corporate strategist and communication expert, as its next executive vice ...

Slaughter: We want our physicians, first and foremost, to focus on patient care and allow our resources and our services to manage the business and the development aspects of their practice. Unger: ...

House introduces AMA-supported legislation to alter portions of physician-owned hospital ban House introduces AMA-supported legislation to alter portions of physician-owned hospital ban Ever ...

Behemoth health insurers claim this time-wasting practice improves care and saves everyone money. Look beyond the myths and find out the facts. Knowing the truth is important because prior ...

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 ...

Unger: That's a hard story to hear. Dr. Bisgrove: Yeah, it's one I tell often because it explains a lot about how norovirus works and how sick you can get. Unger: Now, you mentioned something just in ...