What’s the news: The AMA has sent a letter (PDF) to the District of Columbia’s Department of Health expressing “strong opposition” to proposed regulation 3969 that would allow certified registered ...

Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer Josh Lesko, MD, joins us to discuss the need for physicians to have a voice in the development of the technology they use. Dr. Lesko talks about the benefit ...

With the election behind us, it is critical that Congress tackle an issue that is jeopardizing access to care for tens of millions of patients and threatens the viability of our entire health system: ...

For Lyndsay Harshman, MD, a satisfying career in medicine includes a strategic balance between research and clinical care. “To be successful, you can’t really have one without the other,” she said.

While SARS-CoV-2 infections continue to influence trends in U.S. death rates, COVID-19 is no longer among the nation’s top three killers. The tragic trio are heart disease, cancer and unintentional ...

What is a respiratory infection? Can you test too early for COVID? How much exercise do adults need per day? Can exercise lower your blood pressure? AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and ...

When it comes to improving physician well-being, there’s more to it than just identifying problems. Creating meaningful, lasting change can be difficult, but pilot programs can give health care ...

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. Ten years ...

Training to become a physician is a marathon. The opening months of medical school, however, can often feel like a sprint. The volume of information that medical students are expected to retain and ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in sleep medicine? Meet Virginia Skiba, MD, a sleep medicine physician and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” Specialty ...

In the wake of a divisive election season, there is one important sign of bipartisanship prevalent on Capitol Hill. A majority of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives—135 Democrats and 86 ...