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 ...

Through the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship, AMA member Whitney Sambhariya, MD, PhD, is honing skills to advance health equity. For many resident physicians, the grueling schedule of clinical ...

In 2001, ophthalmologist Ravi D. Goel, MD, joined a practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, the town in which he grew up. He loves his hometown and worries about whether he will financially be able to ...

After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list, there isn’t much else left to do but wait on Match Day. In a few weeks—as was the case in 2024—the overwhelming majority ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “era of AI” is here. States seek to mandate AI transparency and regulate clinical decision-making and payer use. Tim Storey, the CEO of the National Conference of State Legislatures, has joked ...

Isaac J. Myers II, MD, shares how he helped bring hundreds of physicians and nonphysician providers together into one medical group—then double it in size. Family physician Isaac J. Myers II, MD, has ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) causes your heart to beat faster than it should. Paari Dominic, MBBS, MPH, of University of Iowa Health Care, shares more. Every beat of the human heart carries life, rhythm ...

Medical liability insurance premiums continue to march upward. Rates have been on the rise for sixth year in a row and almost every part of the country is seeing rates increase, with some pockets of ...

AMA survey of nearly 1,200 doctors offers four key insights into how physicians use and feel about augmented intelligence (AI) in medicine. Physicians’ use of health care augmented intelligence (AI) ...

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 ...