AMA member Myra Moghal is training become a physician. At the AMA Medical Student Advocacy Conference, she learned that means speaking up for patients.

If 10 unvaccinated people are in a room with someone with the measles, nine will get infected. Two physicians share how to prevent measles. There has been a recent resurgence of measles in the U.S.

The flu season—which typically runs from October through May—can be severe. And for the past couple of years there has been the looming threat of a combination of a severe flu season with COVID-19 and ...

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 ...

Do cold medicines even work? What about other remedies? It depends. Two physicians clarify which cold medicines work and how to find relief. There’s a reason they call it the common cold. It happens a ...

There are a number of reasons for the projected physician shortage and a number of solutions to the problem have been identified—and they all have one thing in common: the need to get started right ...

It is a difficult and potentially perilous exercise to examine our past through the lens of 21st century thinking. Each person is a product of the time in which he or she lives, demanding both ...

When it comes to reining in how insurers can use prior authorization, state legislatures have been busy this year. Since January, nearly a dozen states have passed laws for which state medical ...

The emergence of the quickly spreading COVID-19 Omicron variant has patients wondering what kind of mask they should be wearing, particularly when in public indoor spaces. As knowledge of masks and ...

In the rapidly evolving health care landscape, precision medicine—also referred to as personalized medicine—has emerged as a revolutionary approach that tailors medical treatments to individual ...

Recent studies have shown that despite the improvements in the overall health of the country, racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of health care—they are less likely to receive ...

The “era of AI” is here. States seek to mandate AI transparency and regulate clinical decision-making and payer use. Tim Storey, the CEO of the National Conference of State Legislatures, has joked ...