An innovative orientation explores local history to enable incoming resident physicians to connect with patients and understand community needs.

Structural racism refers to the totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, ...

Editor’s note: The American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists have joined the AMA to release a statement that strongly opposes the ordering, prescribing or ...

Editor's note The updated joint statement provides further detail and clarification about key areas that have evolved in recent weeks, including in - patient use of certain medications compared to ...

Patients have more options than ever before to protect against COVID-19. Boosters are now available for the three COVID-19 vaccines, made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. And the ...

AMA survey shows physicians warming up to AI, but there’s still need to ensure such tools are developed and used responsibly and transparently. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized ...

Medication nonadherence—when patients don’t take their medications as prescribed—is unfortunately fairly common, with research showing that patients don’t take their medications as prescribed about ...

The Mayo Clinic Proceedings study “ Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work–Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population,” co-authored by researchers from the AMA, Mayo ...

A federal report to Congress on the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative shows that at-home acute care produces lower mortality rates and post-discharge spending than traditional inpatient care ...

AMA members have exclusive access to CME designed to help busy physicians engage in ethical decision making and improve patient outcomes. It’s a situation that Amy Nicole Cowan, MD, explored in a JAMA ...

With more contagious coronavirus variants spreading across the U.S. and the supply of COVID-19 vaccines outpacing supply, further guidance has been released about mask-wearing. Maximizing the fit of ...

Physician leaders have given the international modern-day Hippocratic Oath the most substantial update that it has seen in nearly 70 years, with revisions reflecting changes in the relationship ...