Also known as vapes, e-cigarettes may seem safe to use, but they are not. Bilal Bangash, MD, of Bayhealth, shares more about vaping.

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about cancer in people under 50, syphilis and more.

AMA welcomes effort to address decades of falling payment while detailing how proposed Medicaid changes will lead to coverage interruptions. The AMA strongly supports moves in Congress that would ...

Andrea DeSimone, DO, a psychiatrist at Bayhealth, shares how doctors can better identify and treat major depressive disorder and seasonal depression. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most ...

Exclusive AMA data shows that while job stress is easing and satisfaction is rising, each physician specialty requires targeted support. After years of rising, physician burnout rates are showing ...

The Division of Economic and Health Policy Research conducts independent research to support AMA federal, state and private sector advocacy agendas. One of the division’s most significant efforts is ...

There’s movement in Congress to further extend the regulatory flexibilities initiated as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that have allowed telehealth to become more widespread in medicine.

Payers, health care organizations and the health care delivery system have a nearly $5 billion vested interest in making changes that can help reduce physician burnout, a study shows. Primary care ...

There are lots of ways that augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—can help physicians transform health care for the better, from achieving more precise diagnoses to ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, temporary waivers of telehealth coverage and payment regulations boomed at the state and federal levels to meet the increased demand for virtual medical care. To keep ...

The use of augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—in health care is rapidly evolving, but experts say its growth and adoption could stall if physicians aren’t told what the ...

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 ...