Often wrongly called the “stomach flu,” norovirus sickens tens of millions of Americans annually. Two physicians explain how to prevent and treat it. It seems as though everyone has experienced a ...

Vaccines save millions of lives each year. Two infectious diseases physicians discuss the key role they should play for the loved ones in your family. Immunizations have prevented countless cases of ...

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 ...

Telehealth capacity ramped up quickly early in the pandemic, but created a lot of variation along the way. An AMA work group helped develop uniformity. The pre-Christmas continuous resolution passed ...

How to be healthy in the new year: What is lifestyle medicine? Does lifestyle medicine work? What are the benefits of lifestyle medicine? How to become a lifestyle medicine doctor? Our guest and chair ...

Knowing the characteristics of the physician workforce is key to advancing diversity, equity. A new initiative makes it easier to collect and share data. The Physician Data Initiative, a work group ...

Keeping candy- and fruit-flavored e-liquids and e-cigarettes out of the hands of young people will help prevent a lifetime of nicotine addiction. The facts are clear: Tobacco products cause cancer.

What does the American Medical Association do? Are private practices closing? When do Joy In Medicine applications open? What's the new CMS rule on prior authorization? AMA President Bruce A. Scott, ...

Among the tips a wellness expert offers physician residency applicants: Maintain perspective and accept that you will never make the perfect list. The only thing certain about submitting a rank-order ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been nearly a decade since the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) made its debut and hard data show that it’s just not working for patients or physicians. It’s been nearly a decade since ...