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 ...

For many resident physicians, the end-of-year holiday season often means being far from home, working long hours in unfamiliar cities and missing cherished family traditions. While trading festive ...

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 ...

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

Patient portals have evolved from offering self-service tools for clerical tasks such as bill paying and appointment setting, to more clinical applications such as entering remote physiological ...

This column is part of a series of firsthand physician accounts that detail how AMA Health System Program members are moving medicine to support patient health and the medical profession. Physician ...

When a physician asks about a mysterious, onerous or downright nonsensical task and is told that it’s due to “a regulatory requirement,” experts say that should be the beginning—not the end—of the ...

Leaders at Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group could see the writing on the wall: There was a looming physician shortage. While Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group usually dealt with about a 4% ...

Nearly everyone has a story of how health insurers’ use of prior authorization interfered with them or a loved one getting a needed procedure done, receiving treatment for cancer or another disease or ...

The COVID-19 crisis brought a badly needed wave of support to chronically underfunded state and local public health agencies, which had long struggled to meet the needs of our growing nation and ...

People in rural communities experience disproportionately higher rates of cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illness. On top of these grim statistics, the Centers for ...