There are numerous potential uses for augmented intelligence (AI), often called artificial intelligence, in clinical settings. They include informing clinical management; assisting with treatment, ...

Study after study has shown that patients and physicians alike have mostly positive things to say about virtual visits during the pandemic. But as the U.S. health care system remakes itself into one ...

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about cervical cancer screening at home and more.

You are likely familiar with the staggering physician shortage projections made by the experts at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The nation will come up short on physicians ...

The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most—patients. We will meet this challenge together. “I am honored to be elected by ...

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 ...

Education matters, especially when it comes to health care. Patients know it too—more than 90% say a physician’s years of education and training are vital to optimal patient care. Yet there are ...

AMA researchers Meg Barron, and Vimal K. Mishra, MD, presented their research findings on digital health technologies during the Telehealth Academy, an immersive, eight-week webinar program for health ...

It is vital that administration of routine vaccines occur on time to prevent certain communicable diseases. These routine vaccinations induce long-term immunity for many infectious diseases while also ...

The U.S. faces a concerning challenge in its maternal mortality rates, standing out among high-income nations for its alarming incidence of maternal deaths despite substantial health care spending.

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 ...

Don’t spring forward. Don’t fall back. Don’t even touch the clock unless the power goes out. That seems to be the message from the country’s physicians as this Sunday most Americans will lose an hour ...