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The AMA House of Delegates declared firearm violence a public health crisis at the 2016 Annual Meeting, which convened in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando where 49 ...

U.S. maternal deaths are on a worrisome trajectory. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that mortality rose from 861 maternal deaths in 2020 to 1,205 maternal deaths in ...

When considering the potential negative effects on quality and safety of proposed scope of practice changes that would give nurse practitioners more latitude to practice independently, that is the ...

Medicine can be a career that is both challenging and highly rewarding, but figuring out med school requirements and navigating the application process can be a challenge into itself. The AMA has the ...

Experts predict that the U.S. will be short between 17,800 and 48,000 primary care physicians by 2034. For many, those numbers may seem too abstract to fathom or the year too far away to ponder given ...

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 ...

It’s a situation that Amy Nicole Cowan, MD, explored in a JAMA Internal Medicine essay, “Inappropriate Behavior by Patients and Their Families—Call It Out.” In her commentary, Dr. Cowan—an associate ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has added new layers of stress and anxiety to American physicians’ already challenged working lives. Yet amid the new problems of securing sufficient personal protective ...

In case you lost track of the scale of the physician shortage in the U.S., check this out: According the Association of American Medical Colleges, it will swell to between 37,800 and 124,000 ...

Don’t expect herd immunity to rescue the U.S. from the COVID-19 pandemic anytime soon. The country needs about 200 million infected and immunized citizens before the chain of infection can be broken.