AMA Update Public Health Spotlight

Find out what's happening in public health this week with the AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH.

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COVID-19 vaccine added to immunization schedules for adults and children with Sandra Fryhofer, MD [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about immunization schedules for adults and children.

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Prevention & Wellness
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Feb. 6, 2023

In the news: USPSTF recommendations on BP screening for pregnant patients, vitamin D may help prevent T2D, new school nutrition standards and more.

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Feb. 10, 2023: National Advocacy Update

COVID-19 public health emergency set to end May 11 with important implications for patients and physicians and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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AHA, AMA & ANA release new COVID-19 vaccination and booster PSA

The PSA stresses that COVID-19 vaccines, including the updated boosters, protect us from serious disease and death and are safe and effective.

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Time may be running out for free COVID testing, treatments and vaccines with Andrea Garcia JD, MPH [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how the end of the COVID-19 emergency will affect hospitals, physicians, as well as insured and uninsured patients.

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Infectious Diseases
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Time may be running out for free COVID testing, treatments and vaccines with Andrea Garcia JD, MPH

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how the end of the COVID-19 emergency will affect hospitals, physicians, as well as insured and uninsured patients.

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Infectious Diseases
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New study tallies excess physician deaths during early pandemic

COVID-19 has killed over 1 million in the U.S., a figure that would be far higher without doctors’ heroism. Learn about the physician death toll.

Physician Health
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of Jan. 30, 2023

In the news: FDA food safety shakeup, COVID PHE to end in May, policy drafted to ease blood donation restrictions for gay and bisexual men and more.

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What doctors wish patients knew about the flu

After drastically lower influenza activity in previous years, the flu is back with a vengeance. An infectious diseases physician shares more.

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Infectious Diseases
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™