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How much do health plans make?
Some plans reported a slight uptick in medical spending and a drop in profits in the first quarter of 2012.
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Medicare's new approach to a familiar disease
Medicare in 2010 decided to start covering an intensive cardiac rehabilitation program that incorporates exercise, diet, stress management, meditation and yoga.
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A new home for frequent ED users
Intensive, continuous, patient-centered care is the goal for high-volume emergency department patients at Spectrum Health's Center for Integrative Medicine in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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A remote check-in on baby
Hospital webcams provide a constant watchful eye as parents and relatives of newborns can observe via a computer or smartphone.
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Health reform's legal showdown
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a defining moment for the 2-year-old statute.
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The scene outside the Supreme Court
As U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments on the health system reform law, supporters and opponents made their voices heard outside.
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Whose care costs the most?
Many or most of the patients with the highest health care costs in the nation have health insurance and higher relative incomes, and are white.
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Coverage growth will vary by state
Many states' uninsured rates are expected to drop into the single digits after federal reform, but none are expected to get as low as Massachusetts.
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Keeping physicians in state
As physician shortages worsen, states are working to retain medical school graduates and physicians trained in residency programs.
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Who is spending what on health?
The slow economy has caused even some who have health insurance to pull back on out-of-pocket medical spending, meaning they're going to the doctor less.
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How Medicaid expansion will affect enrollment and physician supply
The expansion is expected to cover an additional 16 million people beginning in 2014, but some states with the lowest per capita physician populations will have some of the largest enrollment increases.
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Finalists in AMA medical app contest
AMA members will choose winning apps in both the physician and the resident/medical student categories. Voting ends on Sept. 30.
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Art for wounded warriors
These physician-created artworks reflect orthopedic surgeons' experiences treating wartime injuries. An exhibit featuring these and other pieces will be on display through March 5, 2012, at various locations.
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Graphic cigarette warnings latest bid against smoking
Officials hope these nine startling new images will move many to quit smoking -- or not to start.
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2011 AMA Annual Meeting
More than 500 physician delegates gathered in Chicago from June 18 to 21 to steer a course for medicine's future.
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Future physicians weigh their options
We ask students at the Medical Student Section of the 2011 AMA Annual Meeting about their career plans. Students gave a variety of answers as to choices of specialty and how paying back student loans might affect those options.
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A show of gratitude
Ceremony honors cadaver donors to anatomical education
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Anatomy: an evolving rite of passage
As ideas about anatomical education have changed, so have the images from the dissection room.
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Office-based doctors support 4 million jobs
An AMA report measures the economic impact of practices -- on jobs both inside and outside medical office walls.
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Soon-to-be doctors get glimpse of promising futures
Medical school seniors nationwide learned of their residency matches during simultaneous Match Day celebrations on St. Patrick's Day.
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A legacy of lost objects -- and saved lives
More than a century ago, a physician saved patients by finding innovative ways to retrieve small items they swallowed. Those items and his records are on exhibit in a Philadelphia museum.
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Breaking barriers at HIMSS
More than 70 clinical information systems at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase showed how information systems can connect to one another seamlessly.
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Comedic skills for a serious role
A unique four-week improvisation course teaches med students to think on their feet.
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AMA National Advocacy Conference
Physicians from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., Feb. 8-10 to hear leaders discuss concerns facing medicine, including medical liability, Medicare payment and EMR adoption.
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Doctors wanted
States with the largest population also tend to have the largest shortages of primary care physicians. But Missouri and Louisiana stand out as exceptions to that rule.
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How prepared is your state?
Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examine indicators for each state's public health preparedness.
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When medicine sought a master race
The Nazi sterilization and euthanasia programs grew out of a medical and scientific culture that put racist ideology before patients' welfare.
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64th AMA Interim Meeting
Physician-delegates from around the country gathered in San Diego Nov. 6-9.
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91% of children are insured, survey finds
Coverage varies greatly from state to state, with Massachusetts at 98.5% and Nevada at 81.6%
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Changes in Medicaid and physician pay
Most states used funding from the 2009 economic stimulus package to prevent pay cuts to physicians, hospitals and others treating Medicaid patients. Meanwhile, 25 states and the District of Columbia cut Medicaid physician pay for fiscal 2010, fiscal 2011 or both, while pay was raised in 11 states.
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Election 2010: Both sides of the health reform debate
Two doctors running for Congress have very different prescriptions for the nation's health care system.
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Health care in New Orleans, before and after the storm
Hurricane Katrina radically altered the city's health system.
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For one day, the nation's largest doctor's office
D.C.'s uninsured residents receive treatment from the National Assn. of Free Clinics.
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Building a new face
A surgeon and two maxillofacial experts in prosthetics help a 27-year-old mother, blinded and disfigured by a shotgun blast, appear more normal to her young son.
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Reinventing vaccines
With new scientific discoveries and new technology, the 21st century could be the golden age of vaccines.
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Morbid anatomy
The space where medicine and art intersects is often … well, weird. And fascinating.
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159th AMA Annual Meeting
Physician-delegates from around the country gathered in Chicago June 12-16.
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What are wait times costing you?
Experts say reducing the amount of time patients wait in your office can let you see more patients. How much of a difference can that make? Here is a calculator to help you find out.
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Medicare physician, or not
Physicians express increasing frustration with the hovering threat of pay cuts and Congress' failure to offer more than temporary patches. Options are limited, leaving physicians struggling with whether to continue participating in Medicare.
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Learning from nerds
As medical students, they bonded over geek culture. As physicians, they developed a learning game in which diseases manifest as monsters and antibiotics as powerful warriors.
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Who's teaching about quality?
Several medical schools and teaching hospitals have improved quality and safety training for students and residents, says a report from the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute. Meanwhile, five universities and two other bodies offer master's degrees or certificates in health care quality and safety.
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Physician supply and patient demand
Massachusetts has one of the country's highest physician-to-population ratios, but patients there still face long waits to see doctors. How does this bode for access to care in states with fewer physicians and higher rates of uninsured?
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Where the new schools are
Since 2007, more than two dozen medical schools -- the biggest surge in decades -- have opened, begun accreditation or started discussions to open. This interactive graphic shows where they are located.
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Match madness
Match Day 2010 saw a boost over last year in primary care matches. More medical school seniors opted for residencies in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, a trend physician leaders hope continues.
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Astrodocs at work
Physician-astronauts bypass white coats for space suits and explore the final frontier.
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Physicians in space
Some of the 23 doctors who have launched into space participated in a single mission, while several returned to space multiple times. All made significant contributions to the space movement.
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AMA National Advocacy Conference
Physicians gathered in Washington, D.C., while Congress debated a delay in Medicare doctor pay cuts and an overhaul of the health system.
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Heartbreak and hope
When an earthquake shattered Haiti's already shaky infrastructure, U.S. physicians responded. Volunteers worked in battlefield conditions to meet the overwhelming medical needs of survivors.
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Access to preventive care
Children covered by Medicaid and CHIP are less likely than privately insured kids to have medical homes.
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63rd AMA Interim Meeting
Physician-delegates from around the country gathered in Houston Nov. 7-10.
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158th AMA Annual Meeting
Physician-delegates from around the country gathered in Chicago June 13-17.
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President Obama addresses the AMA
The president spoke for nearly an hour, outlining key points of his health system reform proposal.
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Stimulus money for Medicaid programs
Federal Medicaid matching rate and additional matching rate.
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On the chopping block
Ratio of Medicare Advantage enrollees to total Medicare beneficiaries.
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A miscarriage of medicine
How flawed evidence led to eugenic sterilization.
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Here a type, there a type, everywhere a subtype
Regional breakdowns for the 2008-09 flu season by circulating virus types and subtypes.
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White coats in the White House
Doctors who treat presidents become physicians in chief
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Medicine at sea
On board the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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62nd AMA Interim Meeting
Physician-delegates from around the country gathered in Orlando Nov. 9-11.
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Ronald M. Davis, MD, 1956-2008
We remember his work and celebrate his legacy.
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Parallel universe
The medical community is trying to find real-life benefits from the virtual reality of Second Life.
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Tools of the trade
A display of historic urology instruments demonstres medicine's evolution through the centuries.
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Video visits
Two ventures are exploring ways to let doctors conduct video-enabled visits.
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Rebuilding body and spirit
Images from the Center for the Intrepid, San Antonio
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