What is causing that sore throat? It could be strep, and it needs to be treated the right way. Two physicians share more ...
The Kaiser Permanente Advanced Care at Home program combines home visits, telehealth encounters and remote patient monitoring connected to specialized command centers that coordinate services to help ...
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 ...
After helping state medical associations and national specialty societies defeat more than 100 bills to inappropriately expand nonphysicians’ scope of practice in 2023, the AMA is again relentlessly ...
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 ...
Kill the cancerous tissue with radiation therapy and leave the healthy tissue untouched. Save the patient while sparing them as much as possible from treatment side effects. These are simple oncologic ...
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 ...
About half of U.S. adults have hypertension or high blood pressure, a primary or contributing cause of more than 925,000 deaths due to cardiovascular disease per year in the U.S. The effort to control ...
After fighting for physicians during the pandemic, the AMA is taking on the next extraordinary challenge: Renewing the nation’s commitment to physicians. Unger: Hello and welcome to the AMA Update ...
The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...
For many medical students the spring season can be the height of preparation for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). The exam aims to measure basic science knowledge and ...
The Biden administration has recently taken some positive steps to help more Americans gain access to high-quality health insurance coverage. First is a newly finalized rule governing short-term, ...