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The AMA’s toolkit for community health centers and emergency departments guides you from patient intake to linkage to care.

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Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
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How to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Black patients

The first step is to reckon with the U.S. medical system’s ugly and racist history. Learn more with the AMA about the way forward.

Infectious Diseases
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A look back: What we've learned with the COVID-19 update

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by taking a look back at 190 episodes to reveal lessons learned and the way forward.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA Update
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Policy road map shows the way to end the overdose epidemic

It’s been clear for years that, to end the drug overdose epidemic, health insurance company and pharmacy benefit managers’ barriers to evidence-based treatment and non-opioid pain management must be eliminated.

Behavioral Health
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AMA in the News: December 2020

Read media highlights mentioning the American Medical Association for December 2020.

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AMA in the News
AMA in the News
Domino effect and a hand
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4 Min Read

New competency focus involves structural factors in health

Understanding systems-level forces is crucial to making health care work for patients. Some medical schools are coming around to the idea.

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Menstrual hygiene products
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Why stigma prevents treating menstrual hygiene as essential

Lifetime costs for tampons add up to nearly $2,000. Learn what medical students and doctors can do to fight the harmful effects of “period poverty.”

Population Health
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Barbara McAneny, MD, discusses new challenges facing Native American populations during COVID-19 [Podcast]

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to podcast updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the new challenges facing Native American populations during the pandemic.

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Population Health
AMA Update Podcast
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AMA medical education experts discuss the Fauci effect

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the emerging phenomena known as the “Fauci effect” as well as medical education-related trends.

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Med School Prep
AMA Update
Health care worker and patient after patient receives injection
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Physicians will play key role building trust in COVID-19 vaccine

AMA is here to help you answer patients’ vaccine questions as you urge them to keep following the three W’s to limit SARS-CoV-2’s deadly spread.

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