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 ...

Lyme disease—the most common vector-borne disease in the United States—is increasing in incidence , creating new challenges for physicians treating patients with this condition. The blacklegged tick, ...

The West Virginia Board of Optometry went beyond its rulemaking authority when it sought to expand optometrists’ scope of practice to include some eyelid procedures and surgeries that they do not have ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in Garland v. VanDerStok to determine if the federal government can lawfully regulate firearms assembled from kits, commonly known as “ghost guns.” ...

Provide the best patient experience. Advance health equity. Improve patients’ health outcomes. Deliver health care services at a reasonable cost. Support the well-being of the health care workforce.

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 ...

Among America’s physicians, more than nine in 10 surveyed say that prior authorization has a negative impact on patient clinical outcomes. Most telling is that 78% of physicians reported that prior ...

Pediatricians, even those delivering emergency care, are not immune to the woes that prior authorization creates for patients and the physicians caring for them. On any given day across the nation, ...

Most health care organizations live and die by the productivity of their physicians. Still, many are slow to adopt a fundamental process that boosts physician satisfaction, according to new research.

In too many settings, health care delivery has evolved into a series of disconnected transactions, based on the mistaken notion that anybody will do, according to Christine Sinsky, MD, the AMA’s vice ...

There are almost 54,000 physicians in the U.S. who identify as Hispanic, and pediatrician and disease-management specialist Judith Flores, MD, has been working very hard for them to get to know each ...

What’s the news: A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives—233—has signed onto a letter that urges House leadership to “expeditiously pass legislative fixes” that stop a “harmful” 2.8% ...