The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about AMA's advocacy efforts for 2025.

Most people with COVID-19 recover completely within a few weeks, but some experience lingering symptoms. Those individuals are often referred to as “COVID long-haulers” and have post-COVID conditions ...

An AMA-led coalition of 108 national, state and specialty medical societies, has been active in dozens of states this year, working to block legislation that would provide inappropriate expansion of ...

What’s the news: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arbitrary and capricious and therefore ...

You might have heard of “racial essentialism”—the decades-old belief races are biologically distinct groups determined by genes. It has no scientific basis, yet it lingers, along with many other ...

The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...

Read the 2024 AMA Joy in Medicine™ magazine to see if your organization has been recognized for dedication to physician well-being. The 2022 National Burnout Benchmarking report from the AMA offers ...

That’s an increase of 1,170 positions over 2022, adding to a 14.8% rise over the past five years. Almost half of those positions were in primary care. There were also 183 more programs participating ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season often starts in the fall and peaks in winter. RSV vaccines are available to help reduce risk for severe illness. In many parts of the country, the fall season ...

The COVID-19 pandemic created a public health emergency that is rapidly altering the provision of health care services across the country based on guidance and recommendations from the Centers for ...

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 ...

Picture a pediatrician whose days were once filled with the joy of helping children who is now struggling to find meaning in medicine. Imagine an emergency physician, the epitome of calm under ...