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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medicine can be a career that is both challenging and highly rewarding, but figuring out med school requirements and navigating the application process can be a challenge into itself. The AMA has the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fundamental flaws in the provision of health care across our nation and exacerbated the tremendous differences in health outcomes tied to race, income and other ...

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 ...

When patients go to the pharmacy to fill a prescription, they are often told that their insurance company won’t pay for the medication unless a physician obtains approval. Patients may wait days, ...