Imagine a sharp, shooting pain that starts in your lower back and travels like an electric shock down your leg, making it difficult to stand, sit or even walk. This is the reality of sciatica, which ...

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 ...

Catch up with the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 2024 AMA Interim Meeting concluded Nov. 12. The meeting highlights below would ...

Every year, hundreds of physician leaders and advocates, medical society staff and others from across the country come together in Washington, D.C., for the annual AMA National Advocacy Conference. At ...

The World Medical Association (WMA) has updated its cornerstone ethical principles for medical research to modernize protections and reinforce respect for the rights and interests of human ...

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 delivering his penultimate address before the AMA House of Delegates (HOD), outgoing CEO James L. Madara, MD, reviewed the closing remarks that American presidents have offered at the end of their ...

Physicians’ work often has a profound effect on their personal relationships, and that impact can signal a risk of professional burnout, according to a recently published study that also details how ...

Patient portals have evolved from offering self-service tools for clerical tasks such as bill paying and appointment setting, to more clinical applications such as entering remote physiological ...

When Hurricane Ida rolled through the Gulf South in 2021, patients at Ochsner Health who were pregnant were able to continue their prenatal care during evacuation. This is because physicians were ...

AMA membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students. Unger: Hello and welcome to the AMA ...

The U.S. Supreme Court must take up a case that—if a lower-court ruling is allowed to stand—would set back preventive care in the United States and put millions of Americans’ health at risk, says an ...