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

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 ...

Changes to the code descriptors and guidelines for evaluation and management (E/M) services delivered during office visits and other outpatient encounters provide an opportunity to rethink outpatient ...

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 ...

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.

AMA member Kimberly D. Warner, MD, says the drawbacks of an unpredictable schedule are offset by the rewards of seeing happy mothers and babies. As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it's like ...

Of 21,863 students who entered medical school in 2019, 1,626 were Black. That 7.4% share does outpace the current number of Black physicians now in the workforce, yet Black physicians still account ...

Farrah Hafeez, DO, of Henry Ford Health, says a rewarding part of being an obesity medicine physician is seeing patients make steady improvements. As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s ...

Significant coding and documentation reforms for outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services took effect in 2021. And when physicians wondered what impact those reforms would have on their ...

In the immediate aftermath of receiving the “surreal” news that he was the winner of the 2024 AMA Research Challenge, Ayush Kumar admitted that result wasn’t even on his radar when he submitted an ...

In today’s COVID-19 Update, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine ...

Do you find yourself consistently fatigued despite getting sufficient sleep each night? If you're also dealing with symptoms like dizziness, lightheadedness or brittle nails, it is possible that ...