Staff News Writer

Unifying the physician community and speaking with one voice will ensure the AMA’s “True North”—the physician-patient relationship—remains strong in the face of a semi-chaotic, rapidly changing health care environment, AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD said in his address at the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting. 

A pilot program is taking aim at type 2 diabetes, stopping the disease before it starts in at-risk patients living in Minnesota & Twin Cities. The Twin Cities is one of three locations currently part of the pilot program, a collaboration between the YMCA of the USA and the AMA, through its Im...

More than 50 medical students made quite an impression Friday on nearly 600 children at a public school in Chicago’s South Side during a special health and wellness event held in conjunction with the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting.

Care quality, access and costs all have improved under a new approach to delivering care at the Scott and White health system in Texas, according to the chairman of the group’s board of directors, who spoke to physicians Friday at the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting.

Leadership, community service and dedication to treating underserved patients—the medical profession’s highest values—will be honored at the AMA Foundation Excellence in Medicine Awards June 6.

U.S. medical school graduates face a competitive environment when it comes to securing residency placements, and the perceived graduate medical education squeeze is being closely monitored and debated. 

One million patients have joined to take action on legislative issues that could harm the patient-physician relationship and restrict their access to care through the AMA Patients’ Action Network, making a difference in today’s health care landscape.

Robert M. Wah, MD, will become the 169th president of the AMA. His long history overcoming challenges should serve the AMA well as physicians move into the demanding future of health care.