1999-2002 reports

Council name change: To more fully reflect the scope of the issues it addresses, the name of the Council on Scientific Affairs (CSA) was changed in June 2005 to the Council on Science and Public Health (CSAPH). Read more. On this Web site, Council reports from 1994 through the 2005 AMA Annual Meeting continue to be posted as CSA reports. Council reports from the June 2006 AMA Annual Meeting on are posted as CSAPH reports.

Summaries and Recommendations of Council Reports

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2002 Annual Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 76KB)
2002 Interim Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 44KB)

2001 Annual Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 45KB)
2001 Interim Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 56KB)

2000 Annual Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 155KB)
2000 Interim Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 163KB)

1999 Annual Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 215KB)
1999 Interim Meeting of the AMA (PDF, 187KB)

Full-text reports

2002 Annual Meeting:
Bullying Behaviors Among Children and Adolescents
Childhood Asthma: Emerging Patterns and Prospects for Novel Therapies
Safe Disposal of Used Needles and Syringes in the Community: Update on AMA Activities
Pain Management Standards and Performance Measures
Improving the Quality of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
Generic Drugs
AMA Endorsement of Screening Tests and Standards
Use of Misoprostol for Cervical Ripening

2002 Interim Meeting:
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Smallpox: A Scientific Update
Quality Improvement Projects and Human Subjects Research
Increasing Organ Donation

2001 Annual Meeting:
Pharmaceutical Expiration Dates
Safe Community Syringe Disposal: Understanding Barriers and Creating Solutions
Update of Activities of the Clinical Research Roundtable
Update: Medical Preparedness for Terrorism and Other Disasters
Gene Patenting: Utility Examination Guidelines
Medical Marijuana

2001 Interim Meeting:
Universal Routine Screening of Pregnant Women for HIV Infection
Marketing and Clinical Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide
Safety of Tissues for Transplantation
Implementing the Guides to Community Preventive Services

2000 Annual Meeting:
Combating Antibiotic Resistance Via Physician Action and Education: AMA Activities
Evaluation of the Federal Abstinence-only Education Programs
Screening and Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
Organized Medicine's Role in the National Response to Terrorism: Update

2000 Interim Meeting:
Domestic Violence Information and Movie Theaters
Preventing Assault and Rape of Inmates by Custodial Staff
Reprocessing of Single-use Medical Devices
Women's Health: Sex- and Gender-based Differences in Health and Disease
Classification of Data on Race and Ethnicity
Accuracy, Importance, and Application of Data From the U.S. Vital Statistics System
AMA Data on Violence Between Intimates
Xenotransplantation: Scientific Implications
Patenting of Genes and Their Mutations
Genetically Modified Crops and Foods
Medical Preparedness for Terrorism and Other Disasters

1999 Annual Meeting:
Organized Medicine's Role in the National Response to Terrorism
Review of Guidelines for Pre-test and Post-test Education and Counseling of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and Other Organizations
Cloning and Embryo Research
Review of AMA Recommendations on Folic Acid Supplementation
Implications of Brain Development Research
Mammographic Screening of Asymptomatic Women
Publications Policy of the Council on Scientific Affairs (see PDF of the 1999 Annual Meeting)
In-line Skating

1999 Interim Meeting:
Labeling of Prescription Drug Containers for Generic-substituted Drugs
Prevention Research (see PDF of 1999 Interim Meeting)
Consensus Statement of the Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy
Neonatal Circumcision
School Violence
Organ Allocation
Update on Clinical Research
Embryonic/Pluripotent Stem Cell Research and Funding
Organized Medicine's Role in the National Response to Terrorism: Update (see PDF of 1999 Interim Meeting)

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