AMA member Myra Moghal is training become a physician. At the AMA Medical Student Advocacy Conference, she learned that means speaking up for patients.

If 10 unvaccinated people are in a room with someone with the measles, nine will get infected. Two physicians share how to prevent measles. There has been a recent resurgence of measles in the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Health insurers’ use of AI is bringing a new level of concern to the burdensome payer cost-control practice known as prior authorization. In a recently released AMA survey (PDF), 61% of physicians ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One common element that is sure to be carried over in the transition from a fee-for-service health system to one that supports value-based care arrangements will be the AMA Current Procedural ...

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 ...