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AMA Update for July 8, 2024: New ACIP recommendations for RSV, COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccines, plus updated flu vaccine
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14 MIN READ

New ACIP recommendations for RSV, COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccines, plus updated flu vaccine

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about new vaccine details and recommendations recently voted on by the ACIP.

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Public Health
AMA Update

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14 MIN READ

New ACIP recommendations for RSV, COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccines, plus updated flu vaccine [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about new vaccine details and recommendations recently voted on by the ACIP.

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Public Health
AMA Update Podcast
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of July 1, 2024

In the news: New Alzheimer’s guidelines, U.S. fast-tracks mRNA flu vaccine, weight-loss drug linked to rare form of blindness and more.

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9 MIN READ

What doctors wish patients knew about heat stroke

Heat stroke is a medical emergency. Bilal Bangash, MD, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Bayhealth, shares what to know as temperatures soar.

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Population Care
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™

Neurological disorders CME

Neurological disorders affect a large percentage of the American public. Learn the latest treatments and methods of diagnoses while earning CME credits at your own pace.

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Heading off ageism means supporting patients—and physicians too

The AMA adopts new policy on ageism, which can affect older adults’ care outcomes and hamper physicians at both ends of the career spectrum.

Population Care
Sad woman crying near ill patient in hospital ward
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4 MIN READ

Boost older adults’ access to care by fixing prior authorization

The black-box prior authorization delays and denials in Medicare Advantage have to stop. A bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress is a start.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians
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Medicare trustees: Current path threatens access to physician care

The gap between rising costs of providing care and falling Medicare physician payment will “become a significant issue in the long term.”

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians

Improve older adults' care

Virtual simulations from the American Geriatrics Society CME on AMA Ed Hub™ provide realistic clinical encounters to improve elderly patient care.

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Medicare & Medicaid: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that anticipate and respond to Medicare and Medicaid program changes addressing such issues as program rules that impact medical practice, physician payment and the emergence of Alternative Payment Models (APMs).

Council on Medical Service
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June 14, 2024: Advocacy Update spotlight on reintroduced prior authorization bill

AMA-supported prior authorization bill reintroduced in Congress and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

Advocacy Update