World Medical Association’s ethical research standards modernized on 60th anniversary to address evolving risks, ensure respect for all participants.

Patients with chronic pain continue to face barriers to care, including stigma, regulations limiting medication access, and shortages of pain-management specialists. But progress is being made on the ...

The AMA helps physicians build a better future for medicine, advocating in the courts and on the Hill to remove obstacles to patient care and confront today’s greatest health crises. Efforts to ...

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 ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in allergy and immunology? Meet Burcin Fraser, MD, an allergist and immunologist and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” ...

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 ...

They say awareness is the first step to creating change and it appears that an issue the AMA has been fighting for relentlessly—a permanent fix to the Medicare payment system—is being acknowledged at ...